In the last issue, we introduced some cases of the oldest board game Boqi, and this issue will continue to introduce them.
1. Crusaders
This is a relatively new Boqi mechanism board game, which was released on the KS platform in 2018. Compared with the previous two games, there may not be too many players who have played it.
The background of the game is the Crusades, and the players play the role of the Knights Templar to wage war on the Muslim world. Although it is based on historical facts, it still caused a lot of controversy. In this game, the role of the Boqi mechanism is similar to that in “Trajan”. It acts as a driving mechanism that connects various plates in series, but it is much stronger in terms of theme.
In the game, there are six plates on the player’s board. Each plate has an action, and there will be several points at the beginning of the game. What the player has to do in each round is to take all the points on a concentrated plate. And distribute them according to the Boqi rules. At first glance, it is very similar to “Trajan”, but it is different in details.
2. Fruit Manor
This is the oldest board game launched in 2009. In the game, players play the role of fruit farmers on Mallorca. By planting and transporting fruits, they strive to become the most successful fruit farmers.
As an early chess game, the dimensions of the game are much less than those of the previous games. There is a 12-grid roulette in the game, and each grid represents a kind of fruit. Depending on the number of players, each person will place 3-5 workers on the roulette at the beginning of the game.
In each round, the player needs to choose a grid with his own workers. Then take all the workers on it and place them clockwise according to the chess rules. For each worker in the grid where the worker lands, you can get a corresponding type of fruit. Whenever a player places a worker over a donkey cart, the player can take a donkey cart. Players with donkey carts can make a delivery by consuming it. That is, transport the corresponding fruit to the community that needs it, and take the community section to get points.
This is a resource conversion board game that quotes the chess mechanism. Maybe if you are born a few years later, you can call it the killer of “Brilliant Gems”. The roulette wheel that players can choose in each round is limited to the few grids with their own workers. The number of workers in each grid is also relatively small, and the effect of the action is also uniformly to obtain fruit.
