Messina 1347

Great game! Takes about two hours to play but you can play solo which is great for anyone having a hard time finding people willing to play this game.

Worker placement and decisions about where to put the workers you receive. We have played this several times and I still think we have more to get out of it. Great at 4 players.

This is a wonderful game with good component quality. It's a fairly long game running close to 2 hours but you'll have a good brain buster thinking about the different actions you could do and the management of resources. Typical euro-game style. But in the end you will have fun.

Great euro game with tons of paths to victory that you can pursue. A little bit rules fiddly, but, can easily be overlooked because of the challenging and fulfilling experience as a whole.

Set in the dark days of the black plague, you are a sicilian noble house working to rescue the people of the city of Messina, combat the plague, and repopulate the devastated city. Messina 1347 is a worker placement game. You send your lieutenants into the city to rescue citizens, gather resources, burn infected parts of the city, and build your estate. The game is a balancing act, trying to have enough supplies to build your estate and get the kinds and qualities of citizens you need in order to repopulate the city, while at the same time advancing along the different influence tracks. There's a ton of strategy in this game, and it will likely take quite a few plays to master.

Fantastic game! Several clever game mechanics all rely on each other, making each decision feel important, and the game feels tight where no move can be wasted.

It's a good game, it's what you would expect with any worker-placement game; place a worker gain something/take an action. I like how the board is modular so it helps keep the game fresh and interesting with every play through. There are a lot of rules but the rules aren't daunting, you can get by once you've memorized them after 2 plays or so. However, the game does run quite long and for me, that's an issue as I like playing games that are 45-90 minutes. This easily crosses that limit for me.

Messina is one of those games that seems harder than it is. There are several choices you could make each turn and multiple paths to accomplish what you want which could lead to AP for some players but for others it leads to wanting more chances to play and try new strategies. It plays surprisingly quickly at 2. I recommend it to anyone who likes a thinky euro puzzle to solve and doesn’t mind making sub optimal choices in favor of keeping the game moving.