Playing The News: Trajan
Channel: The Happy Luza
Date: 2017-05-25

TheHappyLuza jumps from an innovative way of building airports to playing Trajan.

Hi everyone,

Demand for airports is continually growing. More people want to discover the world. And it is getting cheaper as well. A lot of  airports are thinking about expanding. But that would not only cost money and space, but we need to reduce our environmental footprint as well.

There is a new concept, that can generate a breakthrough in sustainable airport capacity by avoiding the physical constraints of conventional runways. It is called the endless runway project. A circular runway. Aircraft's can take off and land at different points on the circle and always be certain that they have no cross wind. Minimizing the risk off landings like this.

 This week I am playing a game, that uses a circular mechanism, similar to that in those old Mancala games. This week I am playing Trajan.

Trajan is a tactical game in which you try to outmaneuver your opponents on the different areas´of the game board. But it all starts with the Mancala like action board.

When it is your turn, you choose one of the 6 bowls with markers. You pick up all the markers, and than allocate them, one by one in the next bowls in clockwise direction. The bowl you end up in, will dictate the action you will preform this turn. During the game, some of the bowls will receive a Trajan tile. And if you end on that bowl, with the depicted markers on them, in that bowl, you get to do a bonus action.

There is a lot going on in this game. Collect and ship commodity's.

Conquer Europe

Expand your influence in the senate

And don´t forget one of the things the Roman emperor Trajan was famous for: his buildings.

Trajan is designed by Stefan Feld, and this is my favorite game he has made thus far. Like I said, there is a lot going on in this game, but to me it all makes sense. It is a joy to work the action roundel, and if things work out it gives a great feeling of accomplishment. 

Please check this one out: Trajan.

My name is Dave Luza
Thanx for watching.