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Tiny Epic Western

Poker for boss of Town

In a mix of Poker and worker placement, you want to best place your posse to become the meanest boss in town.

You begin with a random boss card and one each of three influence markers on your boss card; the town is laid out with location cards and building cards as per instructions. The special abilities of all bosses in play are read out.

In Phase I of a round, poker cards are shuffled and dealt as per instructions. In Phase II, each player in turn places one posse - the third one only if it is standing -  for the effect of the location, a possible acquisition of the building card at the location and for use of the poker card; if you want to occupy a location already taken, a duel takes place using the Gunslinger dice. The losing posse is wounded and laid down, the winning posse is placed on top; the winner of the latest duel receives the “wanted” card and advances one Industry token. Then, in Phase III, poker cards are revealed and resolved, following the rules of Three-Card poker; you win influence in relation to the location of your posse and the poker result.

In Phase IV all compare their card and the two cards next to the Town Hall; in descending order of the value of the resulting poker combinations you can buy a building card at a location with minimum one of your posses there. After six such rounds you win with most victory points from buildings, the “wanted” card and industry points of your buildings from the ranking of industry markers on the Town Hall mat.

Poker fans love it, non-poker players are challenged, too, and the worker placement mechanism is sophistically used. Really tiny, really, epic, epically good!

Players: 2-5

Age: 14+

Time: 45+

Designer: Scott Almes

Artist: Adam P. McIver

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Gamelyn Games 2016

Web: www.gamelyngames.com

Genre: 4X, cards, worker placement

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en es

In-game text: ja

Comments:

Part of the series Tiny Epic ....

Sophisticated worker placement

Poker component is a lovely additional challenge

Compares to:

Other games in the Tiny Epic Series

Other editions:

Devir (es)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0