can Troyes is a town in the French Champagne, eat in the excellent one in our time, drinking and shopping in particular, for Troyes is the mecca of outlet stores. present in different shopping malls, hundreds of small shops of many famous fashion brands their products at bargain prices.

The heart is, however, the old town, in its center the magnificent Cathedral of Troyes. In the streets around the cathedral, there are some traditional champagne shops and numerous restaurants offering the usual typical French menu offerings.

But of course this is not a travel and gourmet blog, although we recommend a visit to the city in central France at any time. The board game "Troy" was, meanwhile, somewhere else, namely in Belgium, with the remote it for their young small publisher "Pearl Games" the author Sebastien Dujardin.

Troyes speak French correctly, it could not Troyes hot but trois, or "Three". The three actually comes in some elements of the game to play: There are three municipal areas, three cathedrals - Level three action cards per building, are also allowed for every action always a maximum of three dice.

Troyes has a game plan, action cards and dice. Nothing new could be said, however, the composition of these three (!) Game elements have coherent and sophisticated nature of the dice, for example, an element of luck, however, offset this strong by the nature of the operation. The selection brings up to 18 cubes used that for its own planned action at any time own or purchased cubes are available.

After distribution of the population on one of the three spheres of influence the military, clergy and citizens, embodied by the three buildings of the palace, the bishop's residence hall, it goes straight to the point in Troyes. The number of workers will be diced and must immediately be used against the attack of foreign invaders. Before the players have not received a fixed income to distribute wages and salaries to its residents.

If the enemy repulsed, players have all sorts of opportunities to participate in civic life in Troyes and gain victory points. Since the game takes place in a limited number of rounds, good timing is needed to get the optimum points. These players can perform actions in the various buildings that have been designed using action cards at game start already there.

The construction of the cathedral must be advanced. But the players will find Victory also influence points, which they can use for further action. With the influence they can, for example, cubes, ie acquiring workers from their fellow players, or a neutral "staff". under the dice are no usable data available, the player using influence points or even a dice roll again turn to its opposite side.

The Action cards of each building quite effective combinations. To validate this action cards be eligible, players must first have a working force against a small fee, sometimes not quite stop there. From this point, all other actions are then free of charge and depend only on the number of erwürfelten workers that are there, sent there.

That the city at the beginning of each round is threatened from outside, we had already mentioned. But other military events as the peaceful city life threatening and that until they have been averted. Here again, players can send out workers. Depending on the number to be stored for as long small wooden marker on an event card, until all available seats are filled. Who owns the majority color on one of these cards, wins the card and now can be credited at the end of the game rubbed more victory points.

Troyes plays very flexible. use opportunities to win points, influence and money or take points are plentiful and there are some interesting combinations possible. In this respect, Troyes is one of the demanding and full-bodied strategy games. In the games - Year 2010, the game is definitely the best. Also the game is quality material in order.

A couple of points off (high level), there are the somewhat drab design and the rule of the game that suffers, like many others at many translation errors, which also disrupts the learning logic a bit. Unfortunately, it also changes the language now revised rule does not After thorough study of the basic rules and the many action cards to play well but Troyes.

Tags: Fantasy Flight Games , Games Pearl