Team Play on Small Worlds, Now Seating Six

Team Play on Small Worlds, Now Seating Six
Board Game: Small World: 6 Player Board
As part of its Kickstarter campaign for Small World 2, an updated digital version of Philippe Keyaerts' Small World, Days of Wonder included a few analog additions to that game, including an expansion map meant for exactly six players that could be used with either Small World or the sister game Small World Underground.

KS backers received the Small World: 6 Player Board in December 2013, and now Days of Wonder has announced that it will also be available through regular retail outlets, with this expansion coming available in the U.S. on January 22, 2014 and in Europe in early March 2014. Here's how to use this expansion with either of the Small World base games:

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Small World: 6 Player Board is designed for use with exactly six players, with players competing in three teams of two players. Players can discuss strategy (openly) with their teammate, but each player competes and takes all actions on his own: choosing new races, deciding where to attack and (most importantly) scoring. At the end of eight rounds, each team's score is equal to the team member with a lower score — and whichever team has the highest score wins.

Small World: 6 Player Board features a double-sided game board with a surface landscape for use with Small World and an underground world for use with Small World Underground. The expansion includes one relic and four places — concepts introduced in Small World Underground — specially designed for team play, such as a tavern that lets you collect two coins and share them with anyone you want, a mirror that allows you to change powers with your teammate, and a boneyard that lets you protect all of one player's "in decline" troops from racial and special powers owned by opponents. And then there's the Golden Soapbar...
Board Game: Small World: 6 Player Board

Components in Small World: 6 Player Board, with rules in English, French and German

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