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And here we are with a brand-new issue of the magazine “Eurogames with a Certain Weight.”
If you belong to the people of Terra Mystica, Power Grid, Bitoku, or Caverna, you surely can’t have missed Men-Nefer.
For lovers of determinism à la Spinoza, strategic games with no randomness are better than reading the Ethics: careful planning at least four turns ahead, awareness of what your opponents are trying to pull off, and final optimization of resources to maximize your score are the daily bread of this congregation.
And what setting could be better than Ancient Egypt, where players take on the role of none other than entrepreneurs B.C., intent on designing the most splendid city the ancient world has ever seen—Memphis?
The premises are mouth-watering, and the game is even more so: over a total of 27 turns, we’ll send our workers all over an enormous board, aiming to erect pyramids, embalm bodies, build sphinxes, fish in the Nile, and much more besides.
All of this, of course, in a strategic amalgam where every action must connect to another, or be the consequence of something we did four turns earlier—naturally, all in the pursuit of scoring more points.
A game like this, obviously, comes with more pieces than grains of sand in the desert: player meeple sets more crowded than the streets of Cairo at rush hour, tokens of every kind to be spread all over the gigantic board, and, of course, dozens of pyramid pieces to prepare.
A heavyweight setup, in short. And for a great game, you need a great organizer: we at The Dicetroyers couldn’t just stand by while future Egyptian architects desperately searched for the lost priestess among ziplock bags, so here is our organizer for Men-Nefer.
Player sets with slots for every piece, trays sized for each type of token, and everything you need to keep from going crazy during setup—you’re supposed to go crazy during gameplay, after all.
The Pharaoh is waiting—let’s not keep him in suspense!
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