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You can change directions and make loops, but you can’t go back to the same tile you just came from. This’ll be where the action happens (literally). 1) The last meeple you drop off MUST be on a tile that contains a meeple of that same colour. It’s a lot like Mancala, but there are a few rules to keep in mind. “Sweet moves?!” On your turn, you will choose a tile with one or more meeples, take all the meeples on that tile and drop them on a string of adjacent tiles until you run out. Players must carefully examine the board to seek the best opportunities to gauge the value of going first and claiming a play that reaps immense rewards.
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“But why should we bid for turn order every round?” Well, the Five Tribes ‘board’ is an arena of ever changing opportunities. Yet, bidding last comes with its own advantages. This also decides the following turn’s bid order, as the player who played first will bid first. Once all players have placed, turn order is decided, as the player who paid most plays first, and proceeding in descending bid order. You don’t want to pay too much, though, as each left over Gold is worth a point at the end of the game. The auction is simple, each player places their domed pillar (that looks like nothing else) on one of the numbered spaces of the turn order track, in turn paying Gold to the bank for their bid. Lay out the Djinn and resource/slave cards, and you’re ready to play.Įach round of Five Tribes consists of a turn order auction, followed by the player’s turns. Each player gets 50 Gold, and 8 camels (11 in a 2 player game). You then have a random set up that you will never see again. The 30 tiles are laid out randomly in a 5 x 6 grid, and each tile is furnished with 3 of the 90 meeples drawn from a black bag. Setting up Five Tribes is a bit of an onerous task, but well worth the effort. Although I would love to see a darker approach to the Arabian Nights theme at some point, I’m delighted at the playful, cartoony style that brings Five Tribes to life. Days of Wonder knocked the art out of the park. Seeing the game in its fully published glory when I picked up a copy at GenCon was magnificent. Bruno had to take his copy with him elsewhere, but the heroic beasts from Days of Wonder left me with their second prototype so that I could share my love of their upcoming game with other Gathering attendees. I should have posted a preview then (I even took pictures, dangit), as I adored it so much that I begged Bruno to leave his prototype with me. Those who like a thinky, puzzling game of shifting parameters and tactical reactions will get a lot out of Five Tribes.I had the immense pleasure of playing Bruno Cathala’s Five Tribes back in April at the Gathering of Friends with Bruno himself. It’s not an awfully tricky set of rules, but because of the way the game works it can be tricky working out what to do – your most rewarding move, for instance, may leave too many options open to the next player, so the game is about balancing what’s best for you whilst minimising options for everyone else. But! You also get to use the special action on the tile itself, which again can be about improving your powers within the game and/or picking up points towards a win. When you reach your destination (- the tile you drop your final tribe member on) you collect ALL the pieces of the colour you are ‘dropping off’ and use them to effect the special ability of the tribe in question – it might be collecting money, or resources, or pieces that score at the end of the game, or assassins, which can be used to either claim more tiles or go after an opponent’s pieces. On your turn you take all the pieces off a tile of your choice and, moving around the board orthogonally, drop them off one by one. The board is made up of tiles which are dealt randomly at the start of each game, and each tile is randomly populated by tribespeople of five different colours. In Five Tribes each player is trying unite the aforementioned tribes in the mythical land of Naqala.