Beautiful game - so you understand it because ...

The journey from Portugal to India forms the background for this to be very nice game. Level of equipment quite economical (some cards, some wooden blocks, a guide) makes the game but rather joy. If you have for first understood the principle and the whole set of rules. The first round was therefore still very "bumpy" because one has ever looked something and because the regulations are indeed extensive, but not always clear or clear at first glance. If the playing time at first to get the specified time and not really out it works only when one "recorded" is. For learning one should then ever plan a Sunday afternoon. The age recommendation, one should actually be aware ...

The appeal of the game makes up that you have to use its "resources" strategically in order to collect as many victory points. However, the resources are limited, so that at some point has to decide which way you want to go; of which there are several namely. Is a pity that only three or four players can play (ie as in Skat ...), of the number of players is one, therefore a bit set in a certain way. Became the gameplay here otherwise already written plenty ...

Packaging and play materials are beautifully designed and suitable. Well, I would have found it if would have been in a box zusächlich a bag, with which one could take on holiday the utensils without the small but somehow "bulky" box eg. Well, you have to give a tinker (or a freezer bag to take ...). The fact that the game omitted a fixed schedule, in principle it is very well suited to take away.

Conclusion: "On to India" is a strategy game that is in simple terms a lot of fun once you get internalized the very complex rules. One can after purchase not really get started immediately, but must "learn" first. In addition, you have at least three, but no more than his four. (Therefore, in sum also a star deduction). For people who like to play and a correspondingly small or large group / family pararat have an unconditional recommendation. One can significantly more money for worse games out.