The only thing negative I can offer about this game is that the pieces don’t lock together. The insert holds all of the pieces together quite well, without much shifting. Each tile is identically shaped, but comprised of differently illustrated hexes, and constructed of thick, sturdy cardboard. The components are top notch quality, from the dense, heavy discs (seriously, these things are awesome), to the hilariously marvelous illustrations of sheep belching, or showing their posteriors, or winking salaciously.

To move, you take the selected number of sheep and move them in a straight line, until you can go no further. A turn consists of a player selecting one of their stacks of sheep and moving between 1 and all of the sheep in that stack (always leaving a single sheep to occupy your place). Play moves clockwise beginning with the start player. The winner of the game is the player who has the most occupied spaces. When the pasture is finished, players place their sheep in a single stack of 16 tokens, then compete to own the most sections of the gaming area by moving parts stacks (their sheep) from space to space. In Battle Sheep players start by constructing a “pasture” by laying down tiles, each made up of 4 hexes. It was designed by Francesco Rotta, and released in 2014. Battle Sheep is an abstract, area control strategy game for 2-4 players which plays in 10-15 minutes.

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