Bridges of Shangri-La

2003 · Mythology

Bridges of Shangri-La

Players lead rival mountain tribes training students and sending them across bridges to occupy neighboring villages. On a turn a player either reinforces a village by adding more tokens or invades an adjacent village by moving tokens; control transfers when the attacker has more total tokens than the defender. After each successful invasion the connecting bridge is removed, progressively restricting movement and shaping the map. Play focuses on managing token strength across villages, timing attacks, and preserving leaders as bridges collapse. The game ends when no more moves remain; the winner is the player with the most leaders (masters) on the board.

Players
3–4 best 4
Playing time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.7 / 5
4.7 on LudoyaTerritory BuildingTravelPoint to Point MovementTile PlacementArea Majority / Influence

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Full stats in Ludoya
49
Plays logged
88
Players
51m 52s
Average play
17
In collections
3
On wishlists

4.7/10

from 15 Ludoya reviews

  • Garfield2.0

    47 It feels like you can't do much because in a 4 player game 3 other players move around your tokens. And everyone places pupil tokens and hopes that someone else do the move action. A pretty chaos, not very strategic. [c] Theme: ★☆☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Abstract --> Gameplay: ★★☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]3 actions --> Interaction: ★★★★☆ <!-- size 7]Fighting for spots --> Artwork: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Ok --> Luck: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Others moving your tokens around --> Strategy: ★★☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Not much, it's too random --> Components: ★★★☆☆ <!-- size 7]Bridges are cool, tokens are not --> Play duration: ★★★★★ <!-- size 7]It's over after 30min --> Easy to teach: ★★★★☆ <!-- size 7]Quite easy --> Rules quality: ★★★★★ <!-- size 7]Very good --> Setup time: ★★★★☆ <!-- size 7]Very fast --> No downtime: ★★★★☆ <!-- size 7]Plays quite fast --> Replay value: ★☆☆☆☆ <!-- size 7]Not really --> [/c]

  • kesulin7.0

    Muy abstracto

  • andycted8.5

    Classic abstract colovini. No luck, extremely simple rules, deep game

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