This gave everyone at the table time to get their sets together before the first scoring, so each member of the sets was fought over for several rounds in advance. Isle of Skye is one of the most beautiful places in the world, with soft sand beaches, gently sloping hills, and impressive mountains. As much of the game can be played simultaneously there is decent player engagement and limited downtime. If it's the former, then if an animal is on a farm, and there is another farm beside it, does that animal get 2 points? They say that it offers a surprising amount of satisfying strategic depth, and provides opportunities for much strategic thinking and planning.

Isle of Skye is a tile placement, auction, territory building, strategy game for two to five players from Alexander Pfister and Andreas Pelikan. The right choice there can supercharge your points engine, or hugely influence the tiles you select in the future.Where the shared scoring context is a macroeconomic modifier, here you influence the value of tiles for your own island only.

New players get an easy entry to the cirtical acclaimed game Isle of Skye - From Chieftain to King by Alexander Pfister and Andreas Pelikan with this new BIG BOX edition. Lastly, this expansion cleverly avoids disrupting the in-game economy, which has a very specific growth curve that is actually quite central to the gameplay.In addition to these, each symbol on the tiles has two corresponding scroll tiles in the bag, which score an individual player points based on how many of each symbol are in his or her territory at the end of the game. There’s nothing wrong with cleaving to that which is known to work, and Isle of Skye is tremendously competent in the way it enhances and enriches the core formula. So each round you look around and try to work out (a) how much that tile is worth to you and (b) how much it is worth to someone else. I played at five players with all new people and towards the end, we all felt the game was outstaying its welcome, but this is less of a problem for experienced players.