Review Details

Cyclades

Product Review (submitted on September 15, 2015):

In Cyclades players bid for the favor of the Gods each round and then are able to build their empire or attack the other player's empires depending on whose favor they have won in the round. Combat is a very simple system that uses the number of troops on each side plus a die adding 0-3. The focus of the game is on the bidding for the different Gods' favors which allow you to build troops, ships, building cities, reduce the cost of things, increase the value of an area, move, and attack. The goal of the game is to control 2 Metropolises at the end of the round, but it doesn't matter how you gain control of them and there are multiple ways to build them or take them from other players.