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Comanchería: The Rise and Fall of the Comanche Empire Game Review

The full board shows a map of the southwestern United States, the area that constitutes present day New Mexico and Arizona. The board is divided into six sectors, each of which contains six locations.I acquired my copy of the first edition of Comanchería in a trade, swapping it for Isle of Cats on a rainy street corner in Brooklyn one summer night. It represented a departure for me. While I played a number of small solo games during the early days of COVID–Onirim, Herbaceous, and Friday were on constant rotation–Comanchería was the first heavy solo game I picked up. I knew I was interested in the theme, the rise and fall of the Comanche empire, and that was enough.

It took me about six months to get it to the table, which isn’t surprising. Assuming the game is going well—and that is a bold assumption—Comanchería can take the better part of a day. It also takes up a fair amount of space, requiring the kind of table space that New York City apartments don’t tend to provide. I didn’t finally sit down with the tutorial until Christmas, when I was able to leave it set out while visiting my parents.

Over the course of the next two or…

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