Beschrijving
Propolis
Propolis is a worker-placement, engine-building, area-control, and tableau-building game. Players take on the role of competing medieval bee colonies and take turns deploying worker bees to collect pollen, fortify their positions, and construct their hives to appease their queen and become the most glorious in the land!
Gameplay
As bees compete over the realm’s floral landscapes, they will be collecting pollen to create the propolis they need to build their hives. Attaining dominance in different realms provides additional glory and building materials. As hives expand, new structures provide additional resources, new scoring opportunities, and the prerequisites to construct a glorious palace for the queen. The player who dominates the realm and builds the most prestigious home wins.
Summarised
This is a great game to teach new mechanisms to players. Packed in a beautiful production and graphic design the game offers worker placement, area control and resource management. It’s an interesting mix of mechanisms that are easy to explain and intuitive to follow. For example you could focus on just constructing new buildings, creating a fast paced game. The worker placement mechanism is highly thematic with bees swarming multiple spots in the same area. You get a lot of game in a small box with a high replay value.
