Jamaica
The pirate theme is prevalent among the boardgame - realizations. And rightly so, because in times of Guybrush Threepwood (re-issue of Monkey Iceland) and Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean) remains the subject to date and still speaks to our fantasies deep inside: find treasures that are realm, adventure, desert island, etc. .
The board game Jamaica from the under-Pro Ludo flag sailing GameWorks - Publisher can some of these primal instincts to speak. This includes material that the game is designed well and immediately pay a little pirate humor leaves.
Each player first selects a pirate - Character card receives and ships and the associated color. With this equipment, the players have the mission to maneuver their ship as quickly as possible to a large pirate island and go to collect various treasures and other goodies.
If it were a pure race for first place, the game would quickly disappear into the pile of boring games, but it does not work, first at the finish to come, if you do not spoil it a bit. This in turn awakens desires among the pirates involved and leads to occasional clashes.
The game is characterized by two core activities: the roll of the dice and play-out of the action cards. Per train, there are two actions, one in the morning and one at night. The cube determines the maximum number of goods that can be loaded and can move the fields to the ship.
That would be really easy, if not all players would simultaneously reveal their actions. The so seemingly secure plan can thus be thwarted by the actions of opponents and even result in a disadvantage. In this case, only the plotting of a bona fide pirate sea battle, which will be decided with gunpowder chips and dice points. The winner will be the underdog or haul away spoils him unpopular cursed treasure in the hold.
On the big trip does not always get too Pirate all in vain. In ports in the form of fees to be paid by gold. Food is consumed on the high seas for the crew. It must be shown in the appropriate fields food chips are released into the stock.
All in all, plenty of meets Jamaica pirates - and stereotypes can be learned very quickly. Particularly turbulent Dern will play at a high number of players. The two players - driving mode with a ghost ship that can lead to some unrest. Nevertheless, the game is not very complex, but simply because of the great material conversion a high entertainment value.
Jamaica now has a price, namely the "golden pen" for the best game rules, 2008, awarded at the Spiel08 in food. A truly deserved price for the rule of the game is exemplary. The mixture of text and illustrations right
