Eleven: Football Manager Board Game

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Or, on the other hand, do you take theme as an extra in a game that’s ultimately about resource management? Eleven: Football Manager Board Game (to be referred to henceforth simply as Eleven) is a 1-4 player, economic action selection, open drafting game with a fair spot of luck involved The game will run you between 1-4 hours, heavily dependant on player count. Yes, this may mean that your best offensive players are playing on the defensive side of the pitch, which may feel like they are standing in the wrong part of the field!

There are a few mini-expansions which add to the game, and the International Cup in particular adds those player vs player rules. I do think there is a natural allure for those who enjoy the general concept of sports team management. Then, roll a die and consult the chart in the bottom left of the match board to see the post-game effect.Eleven was a huge success during the crowdfunding campaign, gaining nearly 4,000 backers on Gamefound. I recently downloaded the 2022 Xbox version of Football Manager and the amount of things to think about was dizzying, maybe even too intense for what I was looking for in a video game experience. Next to the Transfer Area, there are facedown decks of Board Meeting cards, Tactics, Objectives, and 4 decks of Opponents (divided into Leagues) that you will face every Friday during the Match. The obvious strategy is to field a good team, win matches, and take that highest VP for “winning” the league.

I had to read this rulebook four times to gather everything that needs to be done and the edge rules around the matches.Each player is given three large player boards: a stadium board to house your fans, upgrades and ads; a club board to keep track of your board directors, staff, maintenance costs, and production trackers; and a match board used to place your players, plot out each week’s game strategy, and house the players currently on your bench. The game is played over six rounds, each round representing a week in the league and itself broken up into 5 days (Monday through Thursday and then “the weekend”/match day). Almost all of the reviews on Board Game Quest are from review copies of a game provided by the publisher.

You carefully spend money with your daily actions to upgrade your stadium, secure new staff, and acquire players.One of my favorite things about Eleven is hiring youngsters—all the youngster cards are faceless and nameless until they are trained (the flip side of each youngster card). You will hire staff, develop your stadium, sign up sponsors, transfer players, and play matches against other clubs. I have no idea why the designers didn’t just take a blanket approach to doing the math here: look at that opponent card, add up the total strength of the opponent’s defense versus your offense, and you score the difference. There’s plenty of depth and nuance as to how you apply the various effects, but the iconography throughout is excellent, so accomplishing what you want to is down to whether your tactics work, not because you didn’t understand what a certain card or effect did.

I’m not even really a solo gamer, I would almost never choose to play a board game by myself instead of reading a book, catching up on my favorite TV show, or playing a video game. I would likely not, but one of my friends who played in the three-player game said he would, and he knows nothing about football.Some staff cards offer the ability to get more tactics cards, but if those cards don’t come out, it can be quite difficult to play an appropriate formation against another team, and you may not have the advantage of being able to play a second tactics card for its unique power. Sell a player (or youngster) – discard a card you already own, gaining 2 money plus one money per current strength level as well as money for any VP tokens placed on the card. Each player needs space for three large square boards with some extra space for cards to the side or underneath. Eleven is a strategic game by Thomas Jansen ( Club Stories, Tavern, Streetpainball ) set in the world of football.