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EXPEDITION SUMATRA

Get Animals out of the jungle

Players are big game hunters contracted by zoos to roam the jungles of Sumatra to find specimens of threatened species, catch them and load them onto lorries and ships.

In your turn you have four actions, which you choose from a range of five possible action and at the same time implement tile functions that can change the current situation. Possible actions to choose are: Changing paths, you turn a tile or tilt a tile without a lorry on an adjacent free square. If an animal appears you place a corresponding marker, effects like Muntjak, Trap, Native, Field Glasses or Storm are executed – move your own lorry, if it reaches the ship animals are loaded from the lorry onto the ship – load an animal onto the lorry – steal an animal from an opposing lorry, this costs 2 actions – move your own ship one step forward or backward. Then you move your ship, in relation to the location of your lorry with the big storage space, 1 to 4 squares. Path tiles that have been cleared are replaced by new ones from stock. When a player has filled all storage space or there are no more path tiles in stock or the first ship has circled the island you score points for animals onboard your ship and bonuses for filled storage spaces, executed orders and circling the island.

Expedition Sumatra offers an acquisition game with nice graphics and coherent topic. You must always try to use the actual situation for optimum results, the load restrictions for the lorries and ship movement in relation to lorry locations demand pure logistics which are influenced by the changing paths and events.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8+

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Britta Stöckmann, Jens Jahnke

Grafik          : Mariusz Gandzel, Anna Włodarska, Piotr Rorot

Titel             : Ident

Preis            : ca. 35 Euro

Verlag          : Igramoon 2010

www.igramoon.de

Genre                    : Placement and acquisition game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Version                           : de

Rules                              : de

In-game use of language   : no

Kommentar:

Very attractive design

Unusual mix of chance and logistics

Very nice family game

Vergleichbar:

Auf Achse and other games of logistics for the transport element, otherwise all roll & move games with events

Zufall                            2

Taktik                 2

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Interaktion                   3

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