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over a yellow cube with a two and a green cube with a five as well as a glue token” game. The wood we need to ful- fill the orders is repre- sented by six-sided dice in three colors. And as usual with Suchý, all the action choices are very
tightly interwoven.
On your turn, choose
one of the actions from the rondel, possibly earning a bonus on top. Above all, you want to acquire wood by buy- ing it or planting it. And you want to improve your work- shop in staff, materials and tools. In addi- tion to the rondel action, any number of special actions are allowed: for example, chopping wood or gluing it together to
fulfill orders more flexibly.
If you like Suchý games, you’ll have fun
with this one, too, with its brain-boiling
strategic tasks as well as the necessary nitty-gritty of the aforementioned nu- merous “ooops-just-forgot-this” rules. Which is, admittedly, not a
particularly bold pre- diction. Woodcraft is announced for release in November. (ab/cs)
Rise. Very seriously. There are—not even counting the victory points—tracks for culture, science, politics, environment, satisfaction, bank, press, office, school
and industry. And each of these works a little differently in detail. After you have pro- cessed that, the rules
are quite lean.
Of course, the in-
clined expert gamer wants to be the lead- er on all tracks and will be falling into the usual dilemma trap: There’s so much you want to do, but so lit- tle you feel you actual- ly can do in 12 actions.
And although the box cover claims that Rise is set in the age of industrialization, when exorbitant CO2 emissions were not yet considered prob- lematic, environmental factors already play a role here, namely because they
dlp Games
“G
ame cobbler,
stick to your
last,” is a well-known
truism among eu-
rogame designers.
Remo Conzadori
and Marco Pranzo,
pupils of the new
Italian school—who,
by the way, have al-
ready published a very
good, but thematically highly criti- cized, game called Manitoba for dlp in 2018—have really taken the issue of the above-mentioned last seriously in
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