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Bala Ra

Win tribes to be worshipped

As a jealous god you want to win the adoration of native tribes and be acknowledged as true god of Bala Ra. There are dice, each showing the terrain types of forest, desert, mountains, sea, lowlands and swamp - and three tribe dice for each player that are placed on given positions on the board. You begin with 15/20 terrain dice, roll them and place them - both players at the same time - on your board to form terrain regions for your kingdom. In each round you take the Sword of Destiny - it allows you to change a dice value by 1 once in your turn, calculate your influence points and then you have actions - in any order and number: Place dice for 4 IP, maximum five dice, buy region cards for 4 EP, activate a region card or attack, maximum four times. You always expand/place beginning from your own base line, different types of terrain can border each other and you can attack opposing regions that border your own regions. You roll a D6 for attack strength, your opponent for defense strength; if you roll higher than your opponent you take over the attacked terrain die and turn in to the terrain type from which you attacked. Dice that were separated from their base line by such attacks are also conquered and taken over. Cards are used for terrain advantages or risk minimization. An opposing tribe die that has more of your dice adjacent that its owner’s dice is deemed to be conquered. If you conquer two tribes, you win.

This revised new edition of Bala Ra still offers many tactical and strategic options; the tricks are in the cards which you must acquire, use and prepare cleverly and selectively. Some introductory games will be necessary.

Players: 2

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Jack Hanauer, Martyn F

Artist: not named

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Porcupine Press 2014

Web: www.porcupinepress.co.uk

Genre: Terrain expansion

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Revised edition of Bala Ra, 2010

Bag instead of box for package

Only for two players

Many special details from cards

Compares to:

Placement games on terrain expansion and

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0