{"product_id":"ilios","title":"Ilios","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:fl-builder\/layout --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eILIOS is a tile placing strategy game for 2-4 players that brings the aura of the Trojan War to your tabletop! Like Achilles and Ajax who would play board games between battles, you can challenge your friends to a battle of the minds trying to control, surround, and plunder the lands around the City of ILIOS, also known as Troy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eILIOS is played on a 7 x 7 square board with tiles and disks. Following in the footsteps of Go and Othello, ILIOS has strategic depth and an element of suspense: will your opponent score on your turn? Plus, drawing tiles adds a random element that entices players of all skill levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSent wonderfully packaged, this incredible Board Game will be sent swiftly and before you know it, it will be sitting proudly on your desk and receiving admiring comments from all your family, friends and colleagues!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBLOG\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.board-game.co.uk\/product\/ilios\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cimg title=\"Illios\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios.jpg 940w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-300x105.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-768x270.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-180x63.jpg 180w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-500x176.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-85x30.jpg 85w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-171x60.jpg 171w\" alt=\"Illios\" width=\"940\" height=\"330\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios.jpg\" data-srcset=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIlios: Battle for Troy, is a two to four player abstract strategy game. This is designed by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgameartist\/75995\/eliot-hochberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eEliot Hochberg\u003c\/a\u003e and published by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgamepublisher\/18221\/playford-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ePlayford Games\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Ilios, players will take turns deploying warrior tiles on to a gridded board. These tiles have white arrows on them pointing in which represents the direction of their attack. When a player places a tile, they put a disk of their colour on it and a disk of their colour on to any tile that is in the direction of the attack. If a warrior tile ever gets completely surrounded it is removed from the board. It is plundered by the player whose disk occupies it. Players score points at the end of the game based on the point value of the plundered tiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is possible that multiple tiles may be surrounded on a turn and that your opponent can plunder even when it is not their turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the round the player draws another warrior tile from the bag. Then play passes to the next player. The game continues this way until there are no more spaces left on the board.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.board-game.co.uk\/product\/ilios\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cimg title=\"Illios-components\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-components.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-components.jpg 820w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-components-300x183.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-components-768x468.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-components-180x110.jpg 180w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-components-500x305.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-components-49x30.jpg 49w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-components-98x60.jpg 98w\" alt=\"Illios-components\" width=\"820\" height=\"500\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Illios-components.jpg\" data-srcset=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBattle Lines are Drawn\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIlios is very much a abstract \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.board-game.co.uk\/meeple-war-review\/\"\u003ewar\u003c\/a\u003e game, it has a very simple ruleset and is quick playing. There is a back and forth blend of attacking and defending, especially with two players. Careful and clever placement is a must in order to do well at the game. There is some randomness with the blind tile draw from the bag, but you have three tiles to chose from so any bad luck, whilst not mitigated, is reduced with the hand of tiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere can be some interesting combinations set up with players plundering multiple tiles at once. It can be advantageous to let your opponent plunder one of their low value tiles to set you up for a high value plunder in future rounds. Planning a few rounds ahead and manipulating the board in your favour is a necessity and there is a decent amount of enjoyment in pulling off these moves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIlios is a pretty neat game, it is quick playing, rules are relatively simple and there are some interesting choices and tactical decisions to be made. I did find it harder to learn the game from the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.board-game.co.uk\/legend-of-the-five-rings-rpg-core-rulebook\/\"\u003erulebook\u003c\/a\u003e for the complexity of the game. Maybe it was just the way my brain processes things but it took me a number of reads and tutorial video before I “got it”. Once I understood the game play is straight forward and not that hard to understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIlios is part of the Playford Games Ancient World Game System.  This is a single box game that comes with the components and pieces to play 25 other abstract games. I find the concept quite fascinating and I am intrigued to see what other games are part of this system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- \/wp:fl-builder\/layout --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Asmodee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56049900224890,"sku":"ZBG-PLA007","price":19.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/9970\/8282\/files\/ZBG-PLA007.jpg?v=1760983994","url":"https:\/\/zatu.com\/products\/ilios","provider":"Zatu Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}