FJORDS
Your chance to out-do Slartibartfast
Designer: Franz-Benno Delonge & Phil Walker-Harding | Publisher: Grail Games
Australian designer Phil Walker-Harding (Sushi Go!, Bärenpark) cites Fjords as one of the games that got him into modern board gaming, back on its publication in 2005 – only two years before its designer, Franz-Benno Delonge, sadly passed away. It was then a simple tile-laying duel very much like Carcassonne, in which two players must competitively create a Scandinavian landscape, onto which they place settlers to vie for population dominance.
With this re-issue, which Walker-Harding describes as a “fan’s adaptation,” he’s turned Fjords into a two-tofour player experience, while layering on some added strategy, through the introduction of rune stones, which are offered as a built-in expansion.