Inis Board Game

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Player D had been able to retain his exploratory Epic Tale Card and used it again, increasing the unoccupied tiles to five but further expanding.

Or rather, actual kingmaking is very rare, but the late game is a constant struggle to pull would-be winners back to the pack, often by teaming up against them.

If you attack, your opponent has two choices – remove one of their clan tokens from the territory, or abandon one of their action cards to the discard pile. Plenty of games have you constructing the play area as you go along, but few feel like you’re adding so meaningfully to it each time a new tile comes into play.

Often war in Inis resembles not so much the battlefields of Bannockburn as it does an experiment in homeopathy – a constant dillution of force. In a fight, when a player is attacked, they have to choose between losing a unit and losing one of their action cards. I was very excited but also a little worried because it was my friends' introduction to heavier board games.The normal action cards are used to add a few clans to the board, build citadels and sanctuaries, and move your clans around.