Torres Game Review

[caption id="attachment_315699" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Torres: The Box[/caption]

Torres was designed by Michael Kiesling and Wolfgang Kramer (Tikal, Java, El Grande,  Wandering Towers, Pueblo, etc.) and was originally released in 1999. A year later, it won the Games Magazine Game of the Year, as well as a little thing called the Spiel des Jahres. 

Played over three short rounds, Torres is a game of trying to outscore your opponents by expanding your castles upward and outward. Sounds easy enough, doesn’t it?

Let’s get Torres to the table to see how it plays.

Setup

Seed the board by placing single castle pieces on the indicated spaces. Players then place one of their Knights on an empty castle piece. The last player who places a Knight also places the King on an empty castle piece. (We’ll get back to His Majesty later.)

Before the first round starts, take a set of ten action cards. Shuffle these and set them to the side, face down.

Finally, at the start of each round, collect a number of castle pieces, dependant upon player count. After all, these castles aren’t going to build themselves.

Playing the Game

On each turn, you have five action points (AP) to spend. The actions themselves and their…

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