Beschrijving
Books of Time
Books of Time puts a unique and exciting twist on tableau building, allowing you to construct three great books, each with their own sets of special abilities that you can write, thereby creating incredible combinations. The story of a civilization is now truly at your fingertips.
The history of humankind has been written down for thousands of years. Our technological achievements, geographical discoveries, and the will to prosper are woven into intricate threads spread throughout books that tell the story of our time on Earth. Now you have the chance to shape this story.
Gameplay
Three types of pages go into player books: trade, science, and industry. During the game, you add pages to these books to create powerful combinations of actions that you can activate. You need to efficiently manage your resources to create the books that will meet your personal objectives and score you the most points.
The pages provide different actions as well as resources. You will write pages both for the actions they provide you as well as the goals they help you achieve. Players will be drafting cards from a common pool, these are to add to your book, increasing your action options, or discarded to perform some of the actions. There are three tracks in the game, one corresponding to each of the three books. If you go heavy on your green book, you should also go heavy on the green track. Each step of each track gives some cool bonuses, including a decent amount of your total end game points.
You will often be asked to spend your hard earned victory points for things in return. It is usually in your best interest to do this. Spending two points now to give you what you need to write in three pages and accomplish some goals will net you more points in the long run.
Summarised
This game gives you three different books to think about. These books have their own flavour, as do the goals that you need to accomplish for each one. The game definitely gives you an option to engine build, but you’re not triggering an engine over and over. This makes the construction of your books a careful and thoughtful process. The game lasts fifteen rounds, so you need every round to move you towards meeting your goals and scoring big off the right tracks.
