In Troyes, players recreate four centuries of history of the famous city in the Champagne region of France. Players represent rich families using their influence to recruit and supervise individuals from the clergy, nobility, and peasants, utilizing a unique dice drafting mechanism where you can even buy other players' dice.
The Verdict
based on 10 reviews
This video from BoardGameBollocks provides a review of the 2010 board game Troyes, delving into its gameplay and offering a perspective on whether the game is still enjoyable and worth playing in today's market.
The video provides a detailed review and breakdown of the physical components of the board game Troyes, highlighting its thematic integration and unique artwork.
Rahdo delivers an overwhelmingly positive review of the physical board game Troyes, praising its clever dice mechanics and thematic strength. He considers it an amazing game and highly recommends it.
The reviewer praises Troyes for consistently presenting engaging and enticing decisions across multiple plays, highlighting its successful implementation of dice mechanics within a Eurogame framework where player skill, not luck, ultimately determines the outcome.
Shut Up & Sit Down highly recommends Troyes, praising it as a dynamic and fun Eurogame with excellent dice mechanics and surprising depth for its playtime. They highlight its clever design and replayability, despite an initially understated art style.
Troyes remains a stellar, refreshingly mean dice-worker placement game that holds up remarkably well against modern releases. Its clever card randomization, clean setup, and confrontational mechanics offer a delightfully competitive Euro experience worth seeking out.
The video from Before You Play offers a comprehensive playthrough and review of the board game Troyes. It includes a rules overview, a full game playthrough, and a dedicated review section.
The video offers a brief explanation of Troyes' core dice-manipulation mechanics, player interactions, and strategic considerations. It highlights the tension created by taking opponents' dice as a key feature, while acknowledging this can be a deterrent for some players.
Troyes is a highly strategic and endlessly replayable Eurogame that brilliantly utilizes dice manipulation, variable actions, and clever player interaction to build up a medieval city.
The reviewer finds Troyes to be a deep, thinky dice-action game that has a steep learning curve but offers rewarding strategic gameplay, expressing interest in playing it again.
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