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(More customer reviews)My wife liked this game the first time we played it and she lost. That's unusual. And it has enough going on where I feel like it is fun and interesting to play. So I think this will get a lot of play. The rule book seems big but it has a lot of examples and it is easy to learn to play.
Except for taking an advisor that your opponent wants, there is little confrontation in this game. It uses dice in an innovative way - the players split up their individually colored dice into a single dies or in groups to total the number assigned to individual advisors who offer various combinations of resources. So with a roll of dice like 1 + 4 + 5, you might influence advisors 1,4,5 or influence 1 and 9, or 4 and 6, etc if they have not been taken yet. You can only grab one at a time.
The game also has times when people who are relatively behind are given slight advantages: going first, or getting an extra die to roll for one season, or getting options to build two buildings instead of one with the King's Envoy.
There are some interesting tradeoffs with the various buildings you can go after to build. Besides victory points, buildings can offer additional resources, soldiers, aid against enemies.
In the winter season of each of the five years, the players individually have to defend against various orcs/zombies/etc who attack your kingdom. The actual enemies are chosen randomly based on increasing nastiness. The attack phase is pretty mild so it's not exciting in itself but the results can be losing your best building (and its abilities and victory points), losing resources and losing victory points so you do have to try to get soldiers or build defensive buildings to help. The attacking armies grow in strength as the game progresses.
This feels similar to the game Stone Age in some ways. One of the ways that I like this better is that with Stone Age you really aren't sure who is in the lead during the game because much of the scoring happens at the end. With Kingsburg, you have a very good idea where people are.
There also are not huge numbers of values points awarded in this game so slight differences do matter.
The game has very nice components and good artwork which adds interest.
After more plays with my wife, and also with 3-5 players using the free Java version of this game that you can find online, it is still fun but its replayability starts to go down once you have worked out a decent strategy. (There is an upgrade - "Kingsburg - To Forge a Realm" that is coming out this year, 2009, that offers a number of different add-on options.)
This is a fun game - recommended, but if you play it a lot, the "tech tree" of buildings isn't as challenging.
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In a faraway fantasy realm, the king has called upon his wisest and most capable to oversee his newly acquired lands. Each of his talented governors (that's you!) will need to call upon the help of the king's trusted advisors. Some of them might not be nice people, but they have skills and resources that a budding governor could find very helpful...
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