This creates a blocking heavy experience, which some will find almost too aggressive. There is one central board and the objective becomes as much about stopping opponents, as it is to spread out. Battle Sheep is a super fun, but super mean, game. If you pardon the incredible pun, this cuteness pulls the wool over the players’ eyes. Players know exactly what their options are, allowing the game to be entirely “what should I do” rather than “what can I do”.īattle Sheep certainly has a cute theme. Get past this and Battle Sheep offers an incredibly easy game to play. It isn’t possible for the stack to move only 1 – 3 spaces, even if it would be beneficial.
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For example, if a stack of sheep can move four spaces in one direction it must move the full four. The only mistake that can take players a couple of turns to get is the full movement must be made. The grid movement is for the most part very intuitive for players of any experience level. The winner is whomever has the most points, with ties split via the largest grouping of sheep. At this point it is time to score with players gaining one point per field hexagon they occupy.
This continues with players able to move from any stack of their own sheep, until no one is able to go. Play then continues with the next clockwise player. Stacks of sheep cannot jump over field tile gaps or any other stacks of sheep – regardless of height – so can get blocked in. These are then moved in any straight line as far as possible onto a new empty hexagon. Making sure to leave at least one sheep behind, the player selects as many sheep from one of their stacks as they wish. On a players turn they must make a movement from one of their stacks of sheep. These do not count as an edge for the starting positions. Note, there may be gaps in the middle of the constructed board. This can be on any hexagon that is on the outer edge of the constructed board. Taking a stack of 16 sheep, in one player colour, each player then in turn picks a starting location.
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This creates a new board every game, plus one that grows with the player count. Taking it in turns players place one of these titles into the middle of the table, connecting to at least one side of another tile. Each takes from the box four identical tiles – which are made up of four hexagons. However, would this be an entertaining experience for ewe? Let’s find out!Ĭonstructing the field of play is the first task for players. Each game the field will be different, with plenty of sheep to battle.
Designed by Francesco Rotta, featuring artwork from Andrea Femerstrand, the game sees 2 – 4 players spend around 5 – 10 minutes moving sheep and blocking each other in this abstract strategy experience. Battle Sheep is now a decade old board game, which has just been re-released by publisher Blue Orange.
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