![]() What the original 2p-only version looked like! We ended up playing the game all the way home from Europe as well. And then we were both shoving money at the guy to get our own copy. As the 2-player game takes about 5 minutes, we quickly had a winner. had come to find us to show us the game, we gave it a try at the booth. When I first was introduced to it, I didn’t think much from the game description. I loved this game as a 2-player abstract. ![]() Players count up how many hexes they occupy, and the player with the most wins! In case of a tie, the player with the largest contiguous network of occupied hexes wins. Once everyone has moved as much as they can, the game is scored. If your sheep are trapped, and you have no legal moves, you simply pass on your chance to move and await the end of the game. This continues until all players have moved their sheep as much as they can. ![]() The next player then takes their turn, doing the same splitting and moving of a stack. The other part is moved, along a straight line, until it either hits the edge of the board (could also be an interior hex if there is a hole in the board) or another stack of sheep. One portion remains on the space on which it started. On each turn, you must divide one of your sheep stacks into two portions (each having at least one sheep token). Once each player has placed their four board pieces to the board, then each player places their entire stack of 16 sheep tokens on an exterior hex. It may be possible to have holes created on the board as players freely choose how to place their pieces. Each successive piece has to be adjacent to at least one other piece already on the board. To set up the board, players take turns placing a board piece on the table. Each board piece is a diamond shaped affair, made up of four individual hexes. Each player gets a stack of 16 sheep tokens as well as a 4 board pieces. The original game is a 2-player-only wooden game that my brother and I discovered at Essen 2010 after Bruno Cathala literally physically dragged us to the booth in the back corridor of hall 9 to play it.īattle Sheep is a more flexible version of the game, now playable by up to four players. Part of the reason why I put this game on the back burner was that it was a remake of an older game, Splits, which I still have. Times Played: 5, with review copy provided by Blue Orangeīattle Sheep is a game that has been on my radar since it was recommended for the Spiel Des Jahres in 2014.Successful gameplay comes down to blocking out your opponents so you can claim large areas for yourself. However, forming a winning strategy requires some thought and planning. "Battle Sheep is remarkably simple to learn - the rules can be explained almost instantly. "A fun strategy game but it does take a certain amount of time to learn how to block and acquire depending on how you move your herd." When all the players can no longer move any of their sheep, the player who occupies the most pastures wins. The original stack is left in place, while the new stack is moved as far as it can go in any direction until it cannot go any farther or it reaches another stack. On a turn, the current player splits any one of his stacks into 2 separate stacks (there will only be one stack to choose from at the beginning of the game). The stacks are placed on an open Pasture space located on the outside perimeter of the playing area created by the players. A "stack" is all the Sheep tokens stacked up on each other to form a single column. ![]() Starting with the first player and going in turn order sequence, each player takes all 16 of their Sheep tokens and creates a "stack".The rules suggest the "youngest players". Determine who the first player will be.Players should feel free to create as small or as wide a playing area as they like. All Pasture boards should be connected by at least 1 side. Players now take turns placing one Pasture board at a time to the middle playing area.Each player should take 4 Pasture boards which are all the same.Players should place their Sheep tokens to one side for the moment. To set up the game, first allow the players to select a sheep color of their choice and collect all 16 Sheep tokens of that color.The object of the game is to control the most pastures on the board by strategically placing your sheep and blocking your opponents.Ī different playing board is assembled before every game, so Battle Sheep is full of new challenges every time you play!
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