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Tigris & Euphrates
Regarded by many as Reiner Knizia's masterpiece, Tigris & Euphrates is set in the ancient fertile crescent with players building civilizations through tile placement. Players are given four different leaders: farming, trading, religion, and government. The leaders are used to collect victory points in these same categories. However, your score at the end of the game is the number of points in your weakest category, which encourages players not to get overly specialized. Conflict arises when civilizations connect on the board, i.e., external conflicts, with only one leader of each type surviving such a conflict. Leaders can also be replaced within a civilization through internal conflicts.
What is Tigris & Euphrates
Regarded by many as Reiner Knizia's masterpiece, Tigris & Euphrates is set in the ancient fertile crescent with players building civilizations through tile placement. Players are given four different leaders: farming, trading, religion, and government. The leaders are used to collect victory points in these same categories. However, your score at the end of the game is the number of points in your weakest category, which encourages players not to get overly specialized. Conflict arises when civilizations connect on the board, i.e., external conflicts, with only one leader of each type surviving such a conflict. Leaders can also be replaced within a civilization through internal conflicts.
Starting in the Mayfair edition from 2008, Tigris & Euphrates included a double-sided game board and extra components for playing an advanced version of the game. This "ziggurat expansion", initially released as a separate item in Germany for those who already owned the base game, is a special monument that extends across five spaces of the board. The monument can be built if a player has a cross of five civilization tokens of the same color by discarding those five tokens and replacing them with the ziggurat markers, placing a ziggurat tower upon the middle tile. The five ziggurat markers cannot be destroyed. All rules regarding monuments apply to the ziggurat monument as well. If your king is inside the kingdom of the ziggurat, you will get one victory point in a color of your choice at the end of your turn.
Some versions of Tigris & Euphrates are listed as being for 2-4 players, while others incorrectly state that they're for 3-4 players. Tigris & Euphrates is part of what is sometimes called Reiner Knizia's tile-laying trilogy.
Game details
- Players
- 2–4
- Age
- +14
- Duration
- 120 min
- Difficulty
- Heavy
- Type
- Board game
- Year
- 1997
- Mechanics
- Area Majority / Influence · Connections · Hand Management
- Categories
- Abstract Strategy · Ancient · Civilization
- Designer
- Reiner Knizia
- Publisher
- Devir · Edge Entertainment · 25th Century Games · Wargames Club Publishing
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Me gusta mucho la sencillez con la que representa la construcción de civilizaciones y sus encuentros en el mundo antiguo. Más temático de lo que parece a primera vista y muy profundo. Ojalá salga reedición chula pero sin pasarse y jugarlo mucho.
Comprado en la pcra en Dic2010 gracias a un chivatazo de el_mago8. Hay cuatro tipos de losetas y cada jugador dispone de un lider de cada uno de los cuatro colores. Los líderes solo se pueden poner ortogonalmente adyacentes a las losetas rojas. Cuando se coloca una loseta, se recibe un cubito del color de la loseta si ésta fue colocada en un reino en el que está presente tu líder de ese color. Los grupos de losetas adyacentes conforman reinos. Cuando dos lideres del mismo color coinciden en el mismo reino se produce un conflicto interno. Cuando una loseta provoca que se unan dos reinos se prod
A good eurogame
gran juego estratégico de Knizia, las mecánicas son un poco abstractas pero es un gran juego, hay que jugar de nuevo su hermano menor en cartas, el cual tiene una mecánica también rara. Muy buenos juegos.
Players: 4, 3.
Local-(217)
Buen juego de estrategia donde prima más la táctica debido a la alta interacción con los demás jugadores. Es preferible jugarlo a 4 o a 3 jugadores.
I should play more often T&E because it is a game inmense and full of possibilities in each game. A must-have Un juego de los que no deben faltar en una buena colección. Cada partida esta llena de posibilidades y estrategias. Un juego inmenso y una obra maestra.
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How many players is Tigris & Euphrates for?
Tigris & Euphrates plays with 2–4 players.
How long does a game take?
A game takes about 120 minutes.
What age is it suitable for?
It is recommended from age 14.
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