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In Tallywood Rally, you will be in charge of your own halfling political campaign. Leverage the plans up your sleeve into clever plays: send assistants to rally and fundraise—increasing your popularity and treasury, pander to voters directly, build public works, and work with celebrities to get out the vote.
To take their turns, players will be using an innovative card mechanism which allows them to control the actions of their workers. Cards are played into one of four action columns, each with three possible spaces. Each unique space connects the icons on the cards in a different way, potentially revealing bonuses on the board itself. These action include:
Secure Funding: Construct a Public Works tile in this district to attract voters and increase your influence.
Celebrity Endorsement: Attract a celebrity endorsement to help get out the vote, increasing your polling in that district, and attracting new voters.
Research: Reveal the effects of a Celebrity of Public Work tile in a district, gaining support in the process.
Appeal: Spend your Popularity (credibility) to make a direct appeal to the voters of a District, increasing your polling and your vote share at game’s end.
After four weeks of campaigning the final vote is held! Voters are assigned to districts, players total up their vote shares in each district, and the player with the most votes wins!
—description from the publisher
Tallywood Rally - Learn While Playing
- campaigning to elect a politician
- Tallywood, birthplace of democracy within the five Realms
- tutorial/instructional
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Drafting — Block action spaces by placing a blocking assistant so that no one else can take that action in the round.
- Blocking — Block action spaces by placing a blocking assistant so that no one else can take that action in the round.
- Campaign — Costs three popularity to gain two polling advances in a district.
- Campaign actions — Costs three popularity to gain two polling advances in a district.
- Celebrity actions — Lose coins and popularity to place a celebrity into a district; costs scale by tier; some effects persist for the round.
- Endorsements — Endorsement tokens provide bonuses and can be spent/activated; require certain polling to unlock; can be upgraded.
- Plaza — The plaza offers three action spots where strategy icons can be spent; voters in the plaza are drawn as cubes and can be moved into districts.
- Public Works — Spend coins to place tokens that grant strength; can be flipped; badges track ownership; affect end-of-round scoring.
- Research actions — Flip face-down tiles in a district that can reveal initial support or other tiles; can flip a celebrity or public works tile.
- Voter shares — Voter shares represented by polling tokens; total shares in a district determine how votes are allocated among players.
- Voting — Voter shares represented by polling tokens; total shares in a district determine how votes are allocated among players.
- wild action — A flexible action that yields money based on your strength in the targeted district.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- we will check to see which politician gained the most votes and that person will be the winner
- at the end of the game every voter in the plaza will go to the district that matches its color
- voter shares which are represented by these polling tokens
References (from this video)
- cool voting/politics theme
- cube rails/stock-based victory conditions
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
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References (from this video)
- Never got played
- Too many games, not enough time
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Rulebook reading — Rules were read multiple times because they were close to playing, but it never happened due to lack of time.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
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