Hagoth: Builder of Ships Board Game Review

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(More customer reviews)My wife and I play a lot of board games, and Hagoth is one of our favorites. The object of the game is to be the first to score 25 points. To score points, players create blueprints of ships, than build according to their blueprints, and finally sail their ships from one shore to the next. You score whenever you set sail and whenever you complete a voyage. There are more points for larger ships and longer voyages, as well. So the game is great at making you manage your options while still evoking a race-to-the-finish feeling. To play, the game uses a combination of card play and "free actions" - both options allow you to create blueprints, build your ships using wooden tokens, and sail, and some cards allow you to hinder your opponents' progress. Some of the components are not as durable as players might like - well, the cards, really, but the board and playing pieces as well as the wooden tokens are awesome and durable -, but for a game for a family to play on Sunday afternoon or Monday evening, it is a great deal, especially for the price. More importantly, it's a fun game to play: it has that "I have too much to do and not enough time on my turn to do them all!" feel that, for us, makes for a compelling and fun game.

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The world needs more simple, easy games like For Sale, Get Bit, Bohnanza and the like. We wanted to provide a fun game for all ages at a great price!Hagoth: Builder Of Ships.2-4 Players, 10 minutes per player ages 8 and up, though if you have a smart kid you could certainly go younger!Players compete in an effort to design, build, and sail ships to the Land Northward. Through these efforts players are awarded Victory Points. The first player to obtain 25 Victory Points wins the game.Cards are used to design, build, and sail ships. Players start the game with a hand of 5 cards. On their turn they can do one of the following:1. Play or discard 2 cards (or one of each)2. Choose to perform one action in leiu of using cards for their turn.There are 5 types of cards1. Ship pieces cards, used to design ships;2. Go Wooding cards; used to obtain wood to build the ship once they are fully designed;3. Build cards used to build ships;4. Sail cards used to progress built ships for more victory points; and5. Adversity cards, used to hinder opponents' progress with cards such as Sabotage and Delay.Contents include:- Game Board for advancing wooden ships for victory points- 2 wooden discs in Red, Green, Yellow and Blue, one to remember your color and one to mark your points on the victory point track around the board- 2 wooden ship tokens in each color. You are limited to two ships on the board at a time so you have to budget your actions carefully.- 100 Cards of 57 MM X 89 MM size- 50 Wood Shaped Resource Tokens- 4 sided die for use in special actions and cards requiring a roll.- Full Color Instruction Book- Plastic Insert for easy storage of components- Full Color Board Game Box with a unique "canvas sail" texture finish. High quality components for that "euro game" feel you have come to expect.Released in May of 2010.UPC #080162890787, Stock # MDG-4292

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