Battle Sheep

Battle SheepBattle Sheep is an abstract strategy game by Blue Orange Games that takes things to pastures new! This is a wonderful tactile game about managing your own rival flocks of sheep using grid movement. Games of Battle Sheep are easy to teach, and there's no dull waiting while someone sets up the game. Setting up is part of playing Battle Sheep, itself! You begin by placing a tile consisting of four hexes, interlinked onto the table. The next player places

Battle Sheep is an abstract strategy game by Blue Orange Games that takes things to pastures new! This is a wonderful tactile game about managing your own rival flocks of sheep using grid movement. Games of Battle Sheep are easy to teach, and there's no dull waiting while someone sets up the game. Setting up is part of playing Battle Sheep, itself!You begin by placing a tile - consisting of four hexes, interlinked - onto the table. The next player places another tile adjacent to this, and so on and so forth. Meaning you'll create a unique, giant, wacky modular board layout every time. If you want to create awkward gaps in it, you can. And when you do, it opens up some devilish strategy options!Each player starts with a stack of 16 sheep, in the form of plastic 'poker'-sized chips. You stack them on any one of the pasture's edge hexes. On your turn, you have to split your stack (so leaving at least one sheep behind, or moving at least one sheep from it). You move the split part in any direction leading out of that hex. It has to travel as far as it can go, in that direction. On later turns, you can then split any of your stacks.As Battle Sheep progresses, the pasture becomes more and more congested with sheep. Sheep chips are literal barriers, meaning your stacks cannot pass through them. It's all-too easy to get hemmed in, if you're not careful! The aim is to spread all 16 of your sheep out. Player elimination can - and will - occur if players can no longer move any of their stacks. In the case of a tiebreak, the player who has placed the largest contiguous (touching) flock of sheep wins! Player Count: 2-4 PlayersTime: 15 minutesAge: 7+