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Hexemonia

City states in ancient Greece

You lead an ancient Greek city state and rival for dominance with other city states. You begin with an Acropolis and two terrain tiles. There are tiles for Chora, Fortification, Polis and Mythos, with symbols for Political, Military, Economic and Sacred affiliation.

You play rounds of player turns, one turn comprises: A) Draw tiles and resources. B) Place tiles that you can activate. A tile is activated by moving the resources indicated on the tile to the tile from other tiles. Mythos tiles – up to maximum three – are displaced in front of players, their markers are placed into the city on suitable tiles. Polis tiles must be different. C) Action option – 1) Resources production; 2) Strategy with resources movement; 3) War against opponent tiles with accessible edge; the total of all hoplites and residents on the attacked must be surpassed; only one attack per opponent is allowed in the game; you must not attack an Acropolis or a tile whose removal would split the city in two. 4) Use special effects of active tiles. D) Checking of the political situation for uprisings and discarding of surplus tiles. When the last tile is revealed you score - at the end of the round – different kinds of tile sets, and also sets of myth tiles, gold and bonuses from the Acropolis.

Very colorful, very full and lots of resources manipulation – not difficult but difficult to evaluate, real fun in playing somehow does not arise – there is too little planning despite several possible strategies and the fact that you can switch strategies easily,  and too long are the downtimes till your next move.

Players: 2-4

Age: 13+

Time: 45+

Designer: Fabio Attoli

Artist: Svetlin Velinov, Davide Corsi, Delia Arnone

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Truant Spiele 2014

Web: www.truant.de

Genre: City building

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en it

In-game text: ja

Comments:

Standard topic

Many possible strategies

Long downtimes

Little planning

Compares to:

Tile placement games with resources for city building

Other editions:

English and Italian editions from Pendragon Game Studios

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0