7/19/2023 0 Comments Battlesheep bgg![]() ![]() They’re mean, ornery and will block you in as soon as they possibly can, making sure they keep the tastiest grass for themselves. Sheep are peaceful, beautiful, calm creatures whose sole goal is to eat as much grass as possible. It’s a short, strategic game, with a ludicrously awesome theme. But that’s a minor quibble and shouldn’t prevent you from picking up this gem of a game.īattle Sheep holds an interesting place in gaming. If only the designers would have tried some means for the pieces to lock together, perhaps a thin ridge around the top, and a recess on the bottom. This means when you’re trying to move, or pick up, a stack of them, there’s always the chance they’ll fall over. The tokens are high density plastic which means they’re very smooth. The only thing negative I can offer about this game is that the pieces don’t lock together. The insert holds all of the pieces together quite well, without much shifting. Each tile is identically shaped, but comprised of differently illustrated hexes, and constructed of thick, sturdy cardboard. The components are top notch quality, from the dense, heavy discs (seriously, these things are awesome), to the hilariously marvelous illustrations of sheep belching, or showing their posteriors, or winking salaciously. To move, you take the selected number of sheep and move them in a straight line, until you can go no further. A turn consists of a player selecting one of their stacks of sheep and moving between 1 and all of the sheep in that stack (always leaving a single sheep to occupy your place). Play moves clockwise beginning with the start player. The winner of the game is the player who has the most occupied spaces. When the pasture is finished, players place their sheep in a single stack of 16 tokens, then compete to own the most sections of the gaming area by moving parts stacks (their sheep) from space to space. In Battle Sheep players start by constructing a “pasture” by laying down tiles, each made up of 4 hexes. ![]() It was designed by Francesco Rotta, and released in 2014. Battle Sheep is an abstract, area control strategy game for 2-4 players which plays in 10-15 minutes. ![]()
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