Do you have what it takes to climb through the ranks and succeed in the cut-throat business world? Pull the strings and take control of corporations in the fight for power! The best managers of your enemy influence, experience, share, and even corruption. Manipulation of departments such as accounting, communications and human resources. Strategically place your managers and employees to make sure that you will end up on the top dog in this corporate board game!
the struggle for power (or power $ truggle be exact) is a corporate-themed strategy board game designed in 2009 by Bauldric and friends. It seems that the sleeper hit, and does not attract much publicity, although the vast majority of player reviews and feedback on how they were positive. This is a very complicated board game similar to Agricola, and has the same target demographic, and appeal to the same period.
area of the game is pretty simple: you and your fellow executives in the corporation were to determine which of you is the most influential, wealthy, experienced and corrupt bigshot in society! This is where the simplicity ends though, as the struggle for power has a half-dozen winning runs, a choice of activities and a fairly complex rules and mechanics.
victory requires you to excel in at least 4 of 6 songs of victory. There is a certain influence to monitor the control of the company's chairman and administration. There is a section of the alignment based on how much you have invested in company stock. There is a major department song that improves as you successfully connect to the department. There is adviser to follow based on how many external consultants you hire, and there is corruption follow based on how often bribe or are bribed by the other players.
6 path to victory is the secret goal of where you are given the greatest enemy of a set of 3 songs that you need to beat them in. Once you achieve the desired threshold in 4 of 6 of these paths, and may declare that the current round is the last. However, other players may have more points than you win, especially since the biggest enemy is the secret of time, but also from other players can score more runs victory in the final round after the announcement. So it becomes a choice to declare-and-now-or risk-to-wait-but the risk to someone else - the proclamation in the first place.
So how do you play the game and achieve victory? Full gameplay mechanics are too complex to describe in this review, but I'll try to give an overview of how the game teče.Igra Committee (which represents your Corporation) has 6 different departments, under each of which has 6 departments. Above all these, the Board of 5 Directors and above who is president of the uredu.Cijela game is based on control and movement of personnel in these areas.
The main mechanic involves setting up the manager and his staff in the department of the slot. These managers will be pawns in the struggle for dominance in the corporate world. At the beginning of each round, directors meeting will take place. During the meeting, the current president was "let go" and the player with the most members of the Steering Committee for the Promotion of getting one of the members of the committee for a new president.
At the same time, control of each division is određena.Igrač with most departments in each division get control of the division and becoming a new department head. If the player is leaving the division head, nothing changes. However, if another player gets control of the division, the old division head to the feet out and the player with the most gets a new place one of his goons as a new division head. Here's where it gets interesting: the old division head is not "fired". He gets to choose if he gets promoted to become a board member, or becoming an external consultant (which I assume is the same as actually fired). So, on May be a good thing to lose control of the division!
So what is the use of the division's head? Each division head (the president) have unique sposobnosti.Voditelj controlling earn more money when payday arrives, gets a head of accounting for the purchase of shares for jeftinije.Voditelj human resources gets to hire more workers, while the development manager gets to "seduce" the employees of odjela.Predsjednik other player gets to set up a new department for free, while the head of communication seems to be the most powerful ability. He gets to determine how many turns are in the current round, and that random events will affect the players.
These capabilities are powerful enough as it is, but you can bribe from the owners to even greater effect! Bribed the head of development can be "seduced" 3 employees instead 1.Podmitio communications head gets free action before the next director sastanak.Druge ability to also receive substantial increases. Bribery is so very primamljivo.Igra even gives you a nice payoff wallets, so nobody will see any money changing hands. They will continue to see a payoff wallet changed hands, though, but at least they will not see as much (or how little) money you've put inside.
As noted earlier, head of communication determines how many turns in a circle, letting each player makes between 4-7 action. These actions include the creation of new departments, divisions are tearing the new ones, and merging them to create major divisions. You can also hire new employees, bribe other players for their skills, and use the money to buy up shares, departments and external consultants. There are other specific actions, such as "seduce" action to the development of the head gets to use.
There are many ways to play the game. As mentioned before, there are 5 different skills and winning track, you can excel in. Usually you will need 3 of these plus his secret enemy target in order to get a minimum of 4 points needed to win the game. It is also very reactive, depending on what other players are doing. If everyone buys the shares (which are limited), it will not be effective for you to compete with them. If the other players use their heads to create a division fired outside consultants, you can use for you to take control of the government and the presidency, and the resulting effects at the same time.
the struggle for power is complex, but fun and rewarding game. It might take a few games to get his head around a lot of rules and actions available. But once you do, you'll enjoy the game that shows the backstabbing politics and business battles in a unique and exciting way. Struggle for power is ideal for you if you want advanced strategy games such as Agricola, or corporate-themed games such as Acquire (although at a much higher complexity ).
Complexity: 4.5/5.0
Playing Time: ~ 1.5 to 2 hours
Number of Players: 2-5 players
