{"id":51902,"date":"2021-02-04T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=51902"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T20:17:13","slug":"raiders-of-scythia-overhauls-the-tired-worker-placement-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/04\/raiders-of-scythia-overhauls-the-tired-worker-placement-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders of Scythia overhauls the tired worker placement engine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raiders of Scythia: the Assyrian war machine vs the Lookout\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YUHHkGfg_F4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&#8217;t really a review of Raiders of Scythia because there&#8217;s a pandemic going.  That means I&#8217;m pretty much limited to solitaire gaming until vaccines are rolled out widely enough to cover &#8220;people who really want to get back to playing boardgames with their friends&#8221;.  That&#8217;s a lower priority than, say, front-line health care workers, teachers, and grocery store employees.  But it&#8217;s a higher priority than hermits, firewatchers, and seamen doing multi-year tours of duty on nuclear submarines.  So, fingers crossed.  Until then, there are a ton of games I can&#8217;t review, much less play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this is a short analysis of why I think Raiders of Scythia is so good, including why it&#8217;s better than worker placement games in general, and why it&#8217;s better than its predecessor, Raiders of the North Sea, in specific.  I&#8217;ll spend about fifteen minutes explaining why I like it so much, and then run through a solitaire game so you can see how it plays.  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