A nice game to become extinct believed species

A nice game to become extinct believed species

Alea (Ravensburger) 26950 - La Isla Board Game (Toy)

Customer Review

We land on a mysterious island and discover the deep jungle extinct animal species believed. We are continuing our research on the landscape fields to encircle and track significant Dodos, glowing gold leopard toads and similar Riesenfossa.

Procedure:
I. In the Card phase all players simultaneously pull three action cards they distribute each covered for the subsequent phases.
II. Then they set designed for the second phase map as a permanent special function in one of the three bays of the player cases. If no free slot longer exists, you have to cover a previously inserted card and disable it. Some functions provide greater card selection, an additional feature card slot or more researchers figures. Other reward or cheapen special actions.
III. In the revenue-phase, players get a raw stone, which is mapped to the designed map. Optionally, the player can generate extra revenue through its designed special functions.
IV. In turn, players put one of its researchers to a landscape space on the board. This costs two commodities stones in the landscape matching color. There are cards that cheapen the onset in certain landscapes or reward them with new raw stones, victory points or special votes.
If a player has several jungle area / s completely surrounded by its own figures one or he receives the / the corresponding animal tile and their VPs.
V. At the end of the round, each player evaluates a species of its own. Namely, the one he had set with its associated during the Card phase action card. It increases the value of this kind of animal and collected for each of his plate this genre one victory point. Features allows extra rewards (VPs or commodities) are possible.

The game ends when all the animal values ​​have reached a certain sum. In the final vote, there are still points
for each set with all the different animals and the value of the relevant indicator species for each own animal tile.
The player with the most victory points wins.

Conclusion:
The rules and the procedure are explained relatively easily and quickly. The strategic options are mainly about the functions of the Action Cards and their allocation among the round phase. One should try to achieve as good and appropriate combinations. If you want to rely on a particular field, you should try previously, design a matching bonus feature. Sometimes you get lucky and this can build proper chain functions, so you can use several special function with a set or values. The course does not always succeed. Especially because a certain amount of luck is one of them. It's still fun to make the most of his cards and combine the right cards. On the other hand, it can sometimes be a bit frustrating when you partout does not receive the appropriate raw materials or only can evaluate animal species, of which one (still) does not have a slide.

Every now and then you have the dilemma that you want to use one and the same card prefer at all stages, because focusing on her best feature, the appropriate raw material and the punkteträchtigste animal. Tricky! Then you must consider what function you want to use.

Even more annoying is if you have already auszuliegen three good extra features for the next train and you have a cover over it, and so is disable. And if things go really bad, with a function which can not be used - for example, because the icon is not in the vicinity of its own researchers. Namely, it is advisable to put his pawns in a particular region of the board. This allows you to use an investigator for the Orbiting more platelets. Substituting them, however scattered, you can collect less animal tile. As the number of own research is limited, it can happen in the worst case, that you have to pull a researcher before you get him a plate.

Interactive is putting the pieces on the game board. Put two players their researchers to close to each other, they compete for the same plate. This benefits usually the other players who are not involved in the conflict - according to the motto: If two people quarrel, the third party would be (and fourth). It is therefore advisable not to tight to put at the beginning of the other. On the other hand, you can specifically set in the vicinity of another sometimes, to snatch him a plate. Towards the end of the game conflicts over the same plates are inevitable.
The smaller the number of players, the less comes to be into the enclosure, because the size of the board and the number of fields and animal tile is always the same size. In two-player game you have to almost do not pay attention to the other players.
Otherwise, the game plan, however, is variable so that changes the combination of fields and plates on each lot.

Nevertheless, it also takes place for two very well because the key element is rather the selection and distribution of the cards.

Setting the researchers at the edge of fields and the values ​​of platelets lying there reminds me of the Ravensburger game Australia by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiessling.

Very good, I like that one acts at the same time in most phases. Thus, the game plays out pretty fast. Our second game we have a threesome done in half an hour. Frequent benefits of the special function "animal rating" accelerates the game.

The design of the island and the platelet like it very much. Not quite as good I find the plastic material the researchers. They seem a bit artificial (shiny). Even less like the fact that the game plan for the animal points only a very thin cardboard (you can even still call the board?). The player cases do not have a very strong impression. However, I must admit that this is more noticed when unpacking. Playing this has not been felt. Since then falls more on the well-designed game plan.

The symbols on the maps are pretty straightforward, so you from the second game needs no more explanation card.

At La Isla you feel that you can decide a lot. Nevertheless, one is also very dependent on luck. Overall a nice game.

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