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Torres

BUilding castles for a throne

Once again, a king is looking for a successor; in Torres, he tasks his sons with building castles, the best castle will win the crown for the prince.

You use six knights and ten action cards. On an 8x8 board, you place eight building blocks on marked cases, as foundations of eight castles. In turn, each player places one knight into an empty castle, the last one also places the king pawn into an empty castle.

You play three phases, with four rounds in Phase I and three rounds each in Phases II and III. At the start of each phase, players receive stacks of building blocks according to the phase card - four players, e.g. receive eight blocks in four stacks in Phase I and six blocks in three stacks in Phases II and III. In each round, each player has one turn.

In a turn, you can spend five action points for placing or moving knights, placing building blocks, buying or playing an action card or buying points for AP. After each phase, you score castles with your own knights, area of the castle times the level of the knight’s position. A knight in the King’s Castle scores bonus points, when the knight’s level is the same as the scoring phase. At the end of the scoring, the King is relocated. The rules include a Master Version and a version with all action cards in one stack for all.

A new edition for the Game of the Year 2000 - contrary to this edition, the core game in the first edition used the joint stack of action cards, separate stacks for players were a version.

Torres is still a very good game, 18 years later, challenging in the Master Version, but also accessible to casual gamers; the rules are easy and the design very attractive.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Wolfgang Kramer, Michael Kiesling

Artist: Michael Menzel, Andreas Resch

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Huch! 2017

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Building, pawn position

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr pl + ca es it pt nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition

First edition 1999, Ravensburger / FX

Game of the Year 2000

Rules unchanged

Compares to:

Torres, Santorini and other building games with pawn levels

Other editions:

Devir (ca it es pt), White Goblin (nl), IDW (en)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2