Portal Games 331603 Imperial Settlers Multicoloured | Desertcart UNITED STATES
Portal Games 331603 Imperial Settlers, Multicoloured
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A exhilarating Board Game!
Imperial Settlers is fun, easy to learn, and keeps advanced players on their toes
A Classic Game
Great fun for the entire family
Includes extensive game explanation and game rules
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Imperial settlers
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not appropriate for children under the age of 3
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K**T
Not So Good Longevity
Update: After some more plays and a lot more time I find this game doesn't last well. I have dropped the score from 5 to 3 stars. It feels like you are playing in isolation and it isn't much fun waiting for other people to make their turn since their cards are completely different and so not much interest for you to watch what they are up to. Also the cards have a lot of specific and detailed functions, good for your own turn but adding to the lost interest during other people's turns. I never bring it to my board game group anymore, and don't play with my family either.This game looks like it will last me a good time. It is a building game where you use resources to make basic buildings, or use basic buildings + resources to make advanced buildings. The advanced buildings are unique to your faction. Buildings give resources, give victory points, or give other special advantages. At the end of the game you count up your victory points plus extra points depending on the number of buildings you have to find the winner.- Great quality resource tokens. Little apples for food, little brown logs, little grey stones. This is 100 times better than the farm game Agricola which just gave a bunch of different coloured wooden cubes to represent different resources.- The cards in the game are very nicely illustrated, and special abilities on the cards are very clear and easy to understand.- There are a lot of faction cards but you only use a few each game, so each game is very different. The first time I played as Romans and I had a special card that let me send a couple of men to remove an opponent's building, but the next few games I never came across the same style card and the game had completely different play. This is really a big feature for replayability.- The game is a bit competitive, but really not much overt aggression. You can normally just attack another player's basic buildings, not advanced buildings, and it doesn't hurt them much to be attacked.- A great mix of luck and strategy. You do need to plan carefully and it's mostly about strategy, but there is enough luck there that you don't feel bad about losing.The first 5 minutes the rules made my eyes cross a little - but the rulebook is actually written very well with good illustrations and the first game went smoothly and was fun. Although the game is up to 4 players, you can get an expansion with a new faction which allows a 5th player.I have played the game with adults at my board game club, and with my kids at home. My kids are 6 and 8 - they enjoyed the game although my 6 year old went hoping around here and there and my 8 year old read a book while playing it. It gives you the flavour of the complexity (kids can figure it out on the first game) and pace (my kids enjoyed it, but couldn't stay focused the whole time).I have bought quite a number of boardgames in the past, and I think this is one of the best. And the standard game is good enough that I don't feel an immediate need to get an expansion, I still have so much left to explore in the standard game.
T**S
A great version of 51st State
A great version of 51st State. I've never been a fan of the Neuroshima theme, and this one slaps a nice colourful skin over the game, as well as making it more streamlined, easier to teach, and more fun to play.
P**N
Five Stars
Good quick game
M**J
Great game
Love it.Works great as 2 player game too.
A**R
- Fun -Easy to understand rules - Excellent for two players ...
Pros:- Fun-Easy to understand rules- Excellent for two playersCons:- The Egyptians and Japanese seem unbalanced.
B**O
Civ building card game
A very good, interactive card game with heavy resource management.In short, you share a deck of common cards from which to build buildings, whilst also having your own deck based on your civilisation - which are nicely thematic. You use resources you gather to build these buildings which give you a variety of benefits at a variety of times (when you build, each round, when you activate, when you do something specific). Resources are gained by "razing" your own cards or building certain buildings or "making deals" (dedicating a card to obtain that resource each round). Over five rounds you build up you "common" structures and, generally, then overbuild them into your more valuable civ specific structures. However, common structures can be "razed" (destroyed) by your opponents if they have enough "swords" - this leaves a foundation in place for you to build over and you also get some wood, so it is not all bad news, however. As you build your civilisation up, you amass victory points from your cards and most VP is the winner.Also worth mentioning the fact the game can be played solo - the designer has even made available an online campaign sheet you can follow to make it more engaging - and this works very well.If I had one complaint it would be that perhaps the game goes on one round too long - four (in my opinion) would be better than five rounds - and in fact the solo campaign rules do use only four rounds.
A**R
Feels like settlers but the fighting element begins much quicker than ...
Feels like settlers but the fighting element begins much quicker than in the PC game (I have only vague memories so please forgive me if you think otherwise). Good gameplay mechanics, nice quality of components. Good game.
T**O
Not for us
We couldn't get on with this game. One of only a few that we've eBayed. Being able to choose from various civilisations with different abilities is interesting. But the game mechanics weren't unique or exciting. There are better games for less money.
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I have dropped the score from 5 to 3 stars. It feels like you are playing in isolation and it isn't much fun waiting for other people to make their turn since their cards are completely different and so not much interest for you to watch what they are up to. Also the cards have a lot of specific and detailed functions, good for your own turn but adding to the lost interest during other people's turns. I never bring it to my board game group anymore, and don't play with my family either.This game looks like it will last me a good time. It is a building game where you use resources to make basic buildings, or use basic buildings + resources to make advanced buildings. The advanced buildings are unique to your faction. Buildings give resources, give victory points, or give other special advantages. At the end of the game you count up your victory points plus extra points depending on the number of buildings you have to find the winner.- Great quality resource tokens. 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