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Kevin Marshall
United States
Newbury Park
California
We Are DEVO!
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Tribune: Primus Inter Pares
At this week's game-night I managed to get four different games in. A couple of them were light games I had brought. I also managed to learn two new (to me) games. Among them...Tribune: Primus Inter Pares.
This game, designed by Karl-Heinz Schmiel, is produced by Fantasy Flight Games. It is a 3-5 player game, estimated at lasting around one hour.
I purchased this game last December when Fantasy Flight Games had their big annual sale. I believe I got it for fifteen dollars and the expansion for ten. As this was around x-mas and shortly after BGG CON, I had a plethora of new games to learn and play. Consequently "Tribune" wound up getting placed on the back burner. I was curious about it and had heard good things about the game, but had simply not managed to get it to the table (or even open it)
I was pleasantly surprised by the game. It was fairly easy to learn. We played with four and two of us had not played it before. The components are the typical good quality that one expects from FFG. There are many carboard chits to represent money, laurels, legions, and favor with the various factions in the game. It even includes a cool little cardboard chariot.
The game utilizes a variety of mechanisms to allow players to portray various patrician families vying for power in ancient Rome. There's auction mechanics, worker placement, set collection and even a bit of card drafting involved.
Despite employing all these varying mechanics, the games flows fairly smoothtly, The theme comes through as well during play. I'd been listening to some historical podcasts recently on the decline and fall of the Roman republic (Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History'), and the game had me thinking back to the details of those stories.
The game may be a bit too complex to bring out for my family, but I'd like to try it with some of my gamer friends that don't enjoy Euros.
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