![]() ![]() This is your “income” phase – you not only draw a new hand of townsfolk from your ready pile, but you also receive cowrie shells (currency), provisions, and worker pawns (including those who were assigned to huts on the previous round). ![]() (Those are triggered by various cards when they are resolved.) The Story Card deck remains in the box, waiting to dripped into the game by reading from the Story Book. There is also the first (of many) barbarians waiting in the seventh space above the board. You have 10 townsfolk cards in your Ready pile (meaning, they are working for you) with another six arrayed along the top of the board, waiting to be recruited. As well, there are 3 farms, 4 outposts, and 4 village huts placed on the board for you to build, as well as 6 canal cards that show the benefits and cost of building their particular section of the canal. Play begins with your barge on the first canal space and the flood marker on the space behind it. This means I can play a game when I have a spare 45 minutes, then put it away and return to it another day. Just so you know, I have not been playing Legacy of Yu back-to-back… one of the classy design features of the game is the excellent box insert, which makes set-up and tear-down of the game breathtakingly simple. Since each game takes 30-45 minutes (unless you make a fatal error early on), that’s a pretty substantial time commitment: approximately 4.5-5 hours if you run the table (don’t count on it) or 8-9 hours if you end up playing out all the possible games (13) in a campaign. Winning the campaign requires that you record seven wins before you reach seven losses. Yes, that’s right – winning an individual game of Legacy of Yu is not enough. You must produce the necessary resources, make wise trades with those around you, convince local townspeople to join the work, erect important buildings, and create the canals that will divert the water before it overwhelms the countryside.Īnd you have to do it seven times to win. ![]() In Legacy of Yu, the player is in Yu’s shoes (the rhyme, I assure you, was unintentional), working to stop the horrendous flooding of the Yellow River while fending off barbarian attacks. With those out of the way, let’s get to the meat of my review! His legacy, however, is secure – he not only created the Opinionated Gamers website, but was also a key developer on Dominion, Suburbia, Castles of Mad King Ludwig, and the Agricola solo mode (to name a few).īold Summary Statement: Legacy of Yu is a well-designed and well-produced solo-only, fully resettable, nonlinear campaign game that I’m enjoying immensely. Window._PLUGIN_STATE_ = JSON.Let’s start with a trio of caveats and a bold summary statement:Ĭaveat #1: The good folks at Garphill Games describe Legacy of Yu as a “solo-only, fully-resettable, nonlinear campaign game in which you step into the role of the legendary hero of the Xia Dynasty, Yu the Great.” I’m hard-pressed to do a better job of summing up the nature or design of the game… but I’m certainly going to give it a try!Ĭaveat #2: I am not a scholar of Chinese history – so I’m not going to comment at any length on the debates about the historicity of the accounts of Yu the Great… though if you’re interested, they make for some fascinating reading.Ĭaveat #3: Our fearless leader here at the Opinionated Gamers (Dale Yu) has not yet required any of us to call him “Yu the Great” – but it may just be a matter of time. ![]()
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