Heyho Eurofreunde,
Board & Dice hat vor gut zehn Stunden eine Pressemitteilung bzw. Ankündigung für ihr neues 2020er Euro mit dem griffigen Namen "Tekhenu" herausgegeben. Es schwimmt im Fahrwasser von Spielen wie Teotihuacan und Trismegistus, ist es doch wieder von Daniele Tascini und bedient sich Würfelmechanismen. Aber lest hier selbst den erstaunlich ausführlichen Text:
ZitatAlles anzeigen"📢New year, new big game by Daniele Tascini and David Turczi! 🛕📢
It has become a tradition that every year Daniele Tascini delivers to players a unique Euro-style dice experience, and 2020 is no exception!
Teotihuacan, Trismegistus, and now it is time to move to Egypt. Let us introduce TEKHENU...
Four millennia ago, on the eastern bank of the Nile river, the foundation of the Temple of Amun-Ra was laid. Over the course of 2,000 years the temple complex was gradually expanded and became widely known as "The Most Select of Places" (Ipet-Isut), boasting the largest religious building in the world. Today, the site is known as Karnak, located at Luxor in modern-day Egypt.
Join ancient Pharaohs in creating and growing one of the most impressive sites the world has seen, honoring the Egyptian gods Horus, Ra, Hathor, Bastet, Thoth, and Osiris. You must carefully manage the balance of your actions, preparing for the reckoning by the goddess Maat.
The shadow... the unique dice mechanism in Tekhenu
Tekhenu is a strategy game with an innovative twist on dice drafting with each die changing some of its characteristics depending on whether it is in the sun, in the obelisk’s shadow – or in the twilight zone between.
The game board is divided into six sections, each associated with an Egyptian god: Horus, Ra, Hathor, Bastet, Thoth, and Osiris. In the center stands an impressive obelisk (Tekhenu) casting its shadow onto different parts of the board. As a result, the area around the obelisk will be divided into sunny, shaded, and dark sections, depending on how the obelisk casts its shadow at that particular moment. As the game progresses, the sun's rotation will alter which sections are sunny, shaded, or dark.
There are five different color dice: white, yellow, black, brown, and gray. Depending on the color of the die and the position of the obelisk's shadow, each die will either be considered Pure, Tainted, or Forbidden. While you may never draft Forbidden dice, you are always free to draft any other die, whether Pure or Tainted.
Dice drafted from the sun or dark – depending on their colors – will push you towards purity or taint your soul. An imbalance in favor of Purity carries no negative outcome whereas a Tainted imbalance may result in loss of victory points. A perfect balance between Pure and Tainted dice, however, will result in a more favorable turn order.
When drafting a die, you must not only consider the general availability of dice, but you must also consider which value die to draft and how your chosen die will affect your overall balance and power of action you want to perform!
The game is played over four full rotations of the titular obelisk, each seeing players draft dice to build statues, pillars, houses, farms and mines, to produce resources, or raise their population and its happiness in order to gain access to valuable special ability cards.
Tekhenu comes with:
- 1 large obelisk – the titular Tekhenu
- 1 large game board and 4 individual player boards
- 45 special ability, scoring and setup cards
- 26 six-sided dice in 5 colors: white, black, yellow, brown and grey.
- 40 wooden houses
- 32 wooden pillars
- 36 wooden markers, including production cubes and discs, as well as marker-meeples in four player colors
- 24 custom wooden statues in four player colors
- 50 plus cardboard resource markers
- 1 rulebook
Hope you are as excited about new game from Daniele Tascini as we are :)"
Imho macht das schon wirklich Lust auf mehr. Teo und Tris fand ich beide grundsolide, wirklich gute Spiele, ohne dass sie mich aber geflasht haben. Vielleicht ist das ja nun hier der Fall? Dice Drafting ist jedenfalls generell eine meiner liebsten Mechanismen ever (Santa Maria, Solarius Mission, Seasons, Dinosaur Island, usw.).
Achja und das Cover finde ich ebenfalls sehr ansprechend:
Was ist euer erster Eindruck/Bauchgefühl? Kann verstehen, dass man nicht "noch ein seelenloses Euro mit einem Städtenamen" braucht, klar. Aber so ticken nunmal viele. Und ich leider auch 
Lg
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