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Topic	thirty-one tabletop games, ranked
SeabassDebeste 03/14/18 3:39:31 PM #59:	26. Five Tribes https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/157354/five-tribes Genre/mechanics: Pick-up-and-deliver, Bidding, area control, set collection, point salad Rules complexity: 7/10 Game length: 60-90 minutes Player count: 2-4 Experience: 3 plays (including one with expansion) with 4-5 players First played: 2017 Five Tribes is a very abstract game in which you have a bunch of differently colored dudes on a grid-shaped map... but none of those represents your faction. Instead, you pick up all the dudes on one tile and drop them, one-by-one, like it's a Mancala game. The last meeple you drop is removed from the board along with any other dudes of its color in that tile, and you get to activate the ability associated with that meeple color. If you empty the tile entirely at teh end of your movement and no one else already has, you can also assume control of it. There are also tile abilities that let you buy special power cards or do some set collection. Enjoyment - This game would not have made it onto the list if I'd started it like a month earlier. I played it once last year at a meetup a couple I like (who since moved back to Germany, boo!) plus a non-hobby-gaming friend I'd invited to it. The friend liked the game so much that she then bought the game and it became something of a running joke that we would never play it, as our game nights would always be with a party-game-sized group. Anyway, suffice it to say that it did happen that one night, most people just happened to be busy, and the second game was quite enjoyable. It's a fun game when people play fast, but due to the perfect information and the literally hundreds of valid moves (especially in the early game) and the fact that the game state can change very drastically with each move (ah, the problem with a single board where anyone can pick up from any square!), it can be terrifying for people who suffer from analysis paralysis. The friend who owns it is fortunately not particularly AP, but it was fun to make fun of her for taking the longest turn every time. The third game was with five and an expansion (so that you could actually play Five Tribes with five people...) and it was rather late at night it included someone whining about losing badly. He was competitive for second place while I was far behind. I'm glad this wasn't my first experience with FT, because it probably wouldn't even be on this list if that were the case. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:897799217] in thirty-one... [t:76412082]...</cite> <quote>26. Five Tribes https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/157354/five-tribes Genre/mechanics: Pick-up-and-deliver, Bidding, area control, set collection, point salad Rules complexity: 7/10 Game length: 60-90 minutes Player count: 2-4 Experience: 3 plays (including one with expansion) with 4-5 players First played: 2017 Five Tribes is a very abstract game in which you have a bunch of differently colored dudes on a grid-shaped map... but none of those represents your faction. Instead, you pick up all the dudes on one tile and drop them, one-by-one, like it's a Mancala game. The last meeple you drop is removed from the board along with any other dudes of its color in that tile, and you get to activate the ability associated with that meeple color. If you empty the tile entirely at teh end of your movement and no one else already has, you can also assume control of it. There are also tile abilities that let you buy special power cards or do some set collection. Enjoyment - This game would not have made it onto the list if I'd started it like a month earlier. I played it once last year at a meetup a couple I like (who since moved back to Germany, boo!) plus a non-hobby-gaming friend I'd invited to it. The friend liked the game so much that she then bought the game and it became something of a running joke that we would never play it, as our game nights would always be with a party-game-sized group. Anyway, suffice it to say that it did happen that one night, most people just happened to be busy, and the second game was quite enjoyable. It's a fun game when people play fast, but due to the perfect information and the literally hundreds of valid moves (especially in the early game) and the fact that the game state can change very drastically with each move (ah, the problem with a single board where anyone can pick up from any square!), it can be terrifying for people who suffer from analysis paralysis. The friend who owns it is fortunately not particularly AP, but it was fun to make fun of her for taking the longest turn every time. The third game was with five and an expansion (so that you could actually play Five Tribes with five people...) and it was rather late at night it included someone whining about losing badly. He was competitive for second place while I was far behind. I'm glad this wasn't my first experience with FT, because it probably wouldn't even be on this list if that were the case. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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