The newest entry in the T-series

🛡️ Tiletum is the newest game of the T-series from Board&Dice and designers Daniele Tascini and Simone Luciani. 🔥

This is a dice 🎲 drafting game. Each round you will use 3 dice to gather resources and do actions, then there is scoring and cleanup.

👆 On your turn you choose a die: the color and value will tell you what and how many resources you get. There are five colors associated with the five resources - wool, stone, iron, food and gold.
👆 The place where you took your die from, tells you which action you can take. The higher the dice value, the less actions you get (it's always 7 minus the value).

There are 6 actions, the sixth is just a Joker 🃏 where you get choose any of the other five.
👑 The King action basically just moves you up the king track to get bonus points and get the first player marker.
💰 The Merchant actions allows you to move your merchant meeple on the map, place houses and take bonus tokens.
🔨 The Architect action allows you to move your Architect meeple on the map, place pillars and take bonus tokens.
🧒 The citizen action allows you to take citizens and place them into your houses. They might give you bonuses, and filled houses also unlock additional buildable houses.
📜 The Contract actions allow you to take contract cards or trade resources. Fulfilled contracts unlock additional pillars you can place.
❇️ There are also a few different free actions you can do on your turn.

There are many nuances to the rules I won't be able to cover, but basically you want to get the most victory points by placing many houses and pillars, helping build cathedrals, placing crest tiles to your houses, fulfilling contracts - and also watching for the round end objectives. 👍

Spots to place houses and pillars are of course limited, and the cathedral tokens go down in value, so there is some racing for things. 🏃

I think this is a really strong contender in the T-Series, the decisions each turn are crunchy. This will be a hot one during SPIEL🔥. Unfortunately the theme is totally unoriginal: traveling merchants in the Renaissance era dealing with influential people and building cathedrals. 😑 However the game still looks awesome on the table.