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Winziges Weltall

Expansion by dice activation

Galactic colonization in 30 minutes. You choose a galaxy and can use two ships and four dice at the start of the game. Planetary cards in relation to the number of players are laid out and you choose one of two secret orders.

The active player takes dice according to the development level of his empire; dice results provide action options for activation, not all dice must be activated in a turn. You can re-roll inactivated dice at any time, one time for free, further rerolls must be paid for. To use an action option you place the die on the first free case of the command center and implement the action. When the action has been implemented, all other players can copy it for payment of one Culture unit. Possible actions are:

Move ship - land on a planet or orbit a planet; Receive resources - energy or culture – for each ship on a planet or orbiting a planet with the corresponding symbol; ; Progress at colonization with economy or diplomacy, when progress is complete, the planet is colonized; Use colony by implementing the action of the galaxy card or of one of your colonies. Transform die – set aside to inactivated dice and turn another inactivated die to the side of your choice. When someone has 21 points, the game end is triggered and you win at the end of the round with most points from planets, development level and completed secret order.

The only thing that might be called standard in this game is the topic; the implementation of the game and the depth of the game as regards to tactic and the clever use of components are astonishing, even more so as the rules are rather simple and easily explained.

Players: 1-5

Age: 14+

Time: 30+

Designer: Scott Almes

Artist: William Bricker

Price: ca. 27 Euro

Publisher: Schwerkraftverlag 2015

Web: www.schwerkraft-verlag.de

Genre: Development, dice-driven actions

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: cz de en it

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Minimalistic box and components

Excellent game with lots of depth despite rather easy rules

Absolutely recommendable

Compares to:

Other games in the series Tiny Epic …, games with dice-driven action selection

Other editions:

Devir (announced), Gamelyn, Giochix, REXhry

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0