Tribes of The Wind | Strategy Game | Ages 14+ | 2 to 5 Players | 60 Minutes

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Players will have to plant forests, build new villages and temples, and decontaminate surrounding areas. From our short time with the game, Tribes of the Wind proved that it’s more than just a gorgeous tribute to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Designer Joachim Thôme manages to take a simple set of actions - clear, build, fly - and find a compelling loop as players gradually build up their own board while jostling with their neighbours for the resources they need.

Thinking about the description of the game so far, how many players do you picture- around the table? Three? This would be the ‘standard’ number of players for this game, allowing every player to have two neighbours. And it’s fine for three players.Tribes of the wind is essentially a race to build 5 villages across a previously polluted wasteland. Strictly, it’s possible to be the first to complete this race and not win, it’s just never happened in our plays. There's a game design term, the kludge, which I love. It refers to an extra mechanism or rule which is added to deal with a problem elsewhere in the system. The temples in Tribes of the wind are the perfect example of this phenomenon. At some point the designer seems to have realised that you can end up with a real bummer of a hand of cards, stalling your progress towards sylvan Nirvana. Placing a temple allows you to jettison three cards (and immediately replace them) while gaining an immediate benefit. Which is fine, but it's disconcerting to see the design 'joins' so clearly. The addition of the temples definitely smooths off the play experience, but at the expense of tension and variability. Why Defer Gratification? But how do you convert a bombed out power station into a verdant treehouse? By following the following steps:

Once someone has completed 5 villages there is a final round and then each player scores points for the following The power of cards is affected by the cards of your neighbours - with the need to compare element types for most actions.Playing a card is a crucial part of the game. Each card carries a cost, which depends on the types of cards in your hand and sometimes those in your opponents’ hands. Cards allow players to move wind riders to forest tiles, remove pollution from their player board, build forest tiles on unpolluted areas, and gain water, a vital resource for building forest tiles. Building Temples and Villages All the components are good the wooden temples, villages and wind folk are the highlights here. The pollution and water tokens utilitarianly do the job.