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Four Tribes

Game ID: GID0133279
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2013
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Description

In the two-player game Four Tribes, each player takes on the role of a powerful monarch in conflict with the other during a time of famine. The war is at a stalemate, and both leaders decide that the key to destroying the other is to recruit the help of the Northern Tribes! Each player attempts to sway the Village Elders of the Four Tribes to join their cause by supplying each village with desperately needed supplies. Win the village, and you gain the favor of the Village Elder! Gain the favor of enough Village Elders, and you will win the support of the Four Tribes and be victorious!

While Four Tribes is a two-player game, a four-player variant will be part of the finished product.

Description

In the two-player game Four Tribes, each player takes on the role of a powerful monarch in conflict with the other during a time of famine. The war is at a stalemate, and both leaders decide that the key to destroying the other is to recruit the help of the Northern Tribes! Each player attempts to sway the Village Elders of the Four Tribes to join their cause by supplying each village with desperately needed supplies. Win the village, and you gain the favor of the Village Elder! Gain the favor of enough Village Elders, and you will win the support of the Four Tribes and be victorious!

While Four Tribes is a two-player game, a four-player variant will be part of the finished product.

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positive
Pros
  • cheap entry point for an area-control/hand-management title
  • potential hidden gem with solid BG rating
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Control — 2-4 players compete for control with hand management as a core mechanic
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Quotes (from this video)
  • it's quite unlike any other Feld
  • mishmash of kind of that felian euro and mechanical excellence kind of blends well with a more in-your-face bombastic Euro... meatrashy style game
  • mechanically pretty straightforward but there are some interesting twists on the bidding mechanism
  • older school roll and right style game
  • I quite like that little trade-off
  • it's a very simple resource management contract fulfillment game which is not normally my jam, but this one has some cool twists
  • overproduced in a good way
  • the initiative system where all of the different pieces are put in this column and only the ones in the top half can be used to move
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