Or, you could add up the value of your water symbols. You can use this sum to extinguish Fire chits from inside the Circle of Spirits. Fire chits come in values 2/3/4. Let’s say for example there is a three 2s, two 3s, and one 4 Fire chit on the Circle of Spirits, and you have a sum of six water. You could choose to extinguish the 2 and the 4 (=6), the 2 and the 3 (=5), both 3s (=6), or all three 2s (=6). If you have a choice, you’ll take the highest quantity Fire chits (three 2s, rather than 2 and 4). Why? Because one of the victory conditions is to be the first to get 12 Fire chits! Build An Engine Out Of Trees The game will be played in successive rounds until someone has achieved one of the three victory conditions: 12 different Protective trees on their board, 12 Fire tiles in their collection, 12 Sacred Flowers in the Help Line. Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame.

For each Guardian Animals card taken this turn, a Fire of a corresponding value is added to the Circle of Spirits: Each tree has a symbol and number on it. Once placed, this tree provides a permanent bonus to you. You add up this alongside the symbols in your Help Line. As the game progresses and you have more trees, you can achieve bigger and better actions. It’s like you’re building an engine out of trees. A metaphorical engine, of course. You’re not the one deforesting… That’s the role of naughty, burny Onibi. You can find both the solitary and gregarious symbol in the top left corner of a Guardian Animals card. After seeing the varied responses to my initial internal mini review, I was definitely interested in playing it again, and being more aware to the situational nature of the strategy, it most certainly played differently. I tried for the fire strategy myself, but I was definitely denied extra fire tokens near the end of the game – the other players simply stopped buying cards; so I could set myself up for fire tokens occasionally, and otherwise a few fell in my lap due to the autorefill if things were empty – but it was not a runaway strategy by any means.

Each turn has 3 phases and up to 2 actions to perform. Your main task is to choose the winning way! Phase 1: Guardian Animals Un excellent titre qui se démarque dans une ludothèque et devrait séduire les joueurs Initiés en recherche de nouveauté. Je vous présente ce jeu en détail dans cet article :

Once all players have finished drawing their cards, the guardian Animals phase ends and you can move on to the Action phase. The arrival of new Guardian Animals: Complete the Guardian Animal reserve by revealing as many new cards per level as there were cards taken this turn – i.e. fill in the holes in the display Extinguish the fire – Use your water drop points to extinguish fire tiles that are on the circular spirit board. Turn them facedown next to your forest board J'avoue que j'étais un peu réticent, je ne serai vous dire pourquoi, il y a des jeux comme ça... Mais heureusement, j'ai eu la chance de le tester. Kodama symbols can net you a (2Water/2Sun/2Tree) or (1Wind/1Flower) tile. Each of these tiles can only count as one of the listed element bonuses.Be the first to extinguish 12 fires. Take that, Onibi! (Onibi doesn’t even feature in the game as a component, which, while could be an opportunity missed, goes to show what true cowardice is. Too scared to show its own face!)

Plant a protective tree – if your Guardian Animals awarded you any plant points i.e. visible in your Help Line, you can buy a tree tile and place it on your board. The placement must be adjacent to a previously planted one. Every tree gives you permanent elements and/or a bonus action. Plus, filling rows, columns get you added permanent rewards (with corners offering an immediate one-off boon!). Each turn you reveal your Guardian Animal cards one by one, trying to get the best combination of elements possible to perform your two actions. Be careful, if three Lone Animals are played, you can only perform one. The box comes complete with a solo mode which sadly I haven’t had time to fully explore, but looks pretty comprehensive with difficulty being easy to adjust. You can only ever take one Tree per action. Across the game you can take two identical Trees if you want (if you want to double up on certain Tree’s element bonuses). Note that you need 12 different Protective Trees to trigger a victory condition. (Not 12 Trees total.)If you add up the value of your suns, you can buy more Guardian Animal Cards from the 12-card market. Each Guardian Animal Card in Living Forest has a value within the bottom-right corner, in the sun symbol. This is its cost. If you have, say, 8 suns in your Help Line, you could buy one Guardian Animal that costs 8. Or, you could buy multiple animals whose cost amounts to 8 (such as 3+5, for example). Important! A gregarious symbol cancels a solitary symbol. It will therefore be possible to play more than 3 solitary Guardian Animals in the same turn, provided that you have already revealed one or more gregarious Guardian Animals. Note that only the symbol of the solitary Guardian Animal is canceled, the Elements will be taken into account in the Action phase. The last way to win is by collecting 12 sacred flowers to awaken Sanki the great Guardian of the Forest. You collect these on animal cards and trees. And… due to all this speculation about how to best win the game, I’ve been thinking about the game pretty constantly this week, and that doesn’t happen often. As a result, this is easily one of the more intriguing games for me this year, and one I still want to explore further. I will probably play this in person with my regular groups more, but it’s also available online at BGA if you want to try it there. In some ways, this game might play easier online as you’ll have the computer to count up your totals in the different areas as well as make sure that you’re not missing any bonuses from your trees or tree board (as we often miscounted things on our own in the FTF games). There’s one other action though, which is to move your piece on the circular forest board where all the player standees are. Doing so nets you a bonus depending on where you land, either a free action of one of the other types, or a useful fragment, which you can spend during your draw to discard a solitary card. In a clever twist, if you can leap-frog another player piece, you get to steal a victory tile from them, which reduces their progress toward one of the win conditions while increasing yours. However, you also set yourself up to be leap-frogged in turn if that player has enough movement action total and chooses to take it.