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We’ve been looking at a couple of games from Tactic Games recently and today I’m sharing our thoughts on Land of Clans. This board game is aimed at players aged eight years and over and can be played with two-four single players or you can work in teams of up to six people.
The Land of Clans is set in the Scottish Highlands during the medieval period, and clan chiefs battle to outwit their opponents to build castles and claim land. It’s a perfect game to make children think ahead and plan a strategy to conquer their enemies.
The game comes with a playing board, four coloured wooden castle playing pieces and fifteen matching tokens, one hundred and eight playing cards, nineteen Win tiles, nineteen castle tiles in various shapes, a cloth bag and instructions.
The idea of the game is to collect the most points by building castles and attacking the castles of their opponents. The battle ends when one clan chief is the first to collect four Win tiles, each player’s Win tile points are added up and the winner is the chief with the most points. Castles of different sizes are awarded a different number of points, so players need to build wisely.
You set the game up with one Win tile in each of the four corners of the board and the remainder is placed inside the cloth bag. Each clan chief decides on their playing colour and selects the castles and tokens accordingly. Deal two Sorcerer cards for each player placed face up, and five other cards placed face down so only the clan chief can see the cards they’ve been dealt.
Start the game of Land of Clans by looking at your cards and working out which of the Win tile shapes you can recreate with your cards. Each card shows a number or symbol which can be matched to a space on the board. The clan chief decides which card he wants to play and places a token on the corresponding space on the board. He then surrenders that card and picks a new one from the pack.
Play then passes to the next chief and continues until one player has won enough land in the right shape as shown on one of the Win tiles. They can then replace their tokens with a Castle tile of the relevant shape and place one of their castles on the tile.
The player then takes ownership of that Win tile and picks a new one from the bag and places that in the empty corner of the board.
As well as trying to claim your own land for castles, you can attack your opponents and try to claim their land. You claim spaces next to an opponent’s castle tile and then attack a castle by playing one or more cards from your hand. You need to ensure that the cards you pick to play show the attacker’s sword symbol. You need to show a larger number of cards with swords on than your opponent has with shields showing. If the attack is successful, the castle’s ownership changes.
As well as claiming the castle from your enemy, you also claim the relevant Win tile too. Once a clan chief has claimed four Win tiles each chief adds up their points and the chief with the most points wins the game.
We’ve not played with teams yet as there’s normally only my son and me around to play, but hopefully, once we are allowed to have friends around again then we can have some major battles with them. My nearly eleven-year-old has grasped the gameplay well and I can see his play becoming more sophisticated as his strategic planning skills grow. It’s certainly a game I can see us playing a lot in the years to come.
Land of Clans is available from a number of retailers including The Range., priced at £24.99.
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Webkin – I just use it everywhere lol
Blackwatch after my favourite tartan
I asked my 10 year old and he said ‘The Wreckers’
the clan maciver
I’m Welsh but I would go for McStubbs!
Im Welsh but I would go with McStubbs
MacCleod, becasue I’m a fan of the film Highlander.
It would be the Johnston Clan because is the name I was born with and is Scottish!
We would choose the Greaves clan after our family name x
We would have The welsh warriors after our surname
The Joneses as that’s my OH and kids surname.
We would have the welsh clan as we are actually welsh ourselves!
The Smurfs, because my alter ego is smurfette, because I eat so many blueberries that everyone said I’d turn blue
Brettpool Clan – its the name we use for everything – quizzes, football team etc
The Stirling Clan because that is our name.
the bondocs, its just out surname!
Because We Clan – our family never stops trying
Our clan name could be McDevon based from where we come.
We would be the McYorks after the great county of Yorkshire
Well, Clan Moon does have a ring to it….
The Clan McWilkinson
Clantastic, I like a play on world
The Razors – its what the family clan group is known as in ireland – so many with same names so they all have nicknames
the campbells, as we are descendents its a shame not to use our name
the Chris Cross Clan because l am Chris and often cross about something!!
a mix of both my parents surnames Diclonian
McAddos, because we have a friend who refers to us as the Addos
Mine would be McAlfie after my son
We’d be the McDow’s because Dow is our surname
We’d be the Crofters as a play on our name
Clan Blunder Never Cease after our quiz team name
Maybe McWegie after our Norwegian forest cat. He’d like that!
The Bruce Clan
We’d have to be The Taffys
We’d be clan Harwood x
I think our clan would be Quadrophenias
Craig, as our Scottish surname.
Clan chaos just like my home!
Clan McCritch – in honour of my roots
I could be Mac-Collingwood!
A play on the actual tribe my surname belongs to macpherson and their motto Touch not a cat but a glove. so I would be clan of the cats. Google that one if you thinks it is not true.
The Readie Clan – based on my nickname and surname 🙂 Thanks for running this giveaway
Has to be Winner Forever as we would be a winning strong clan.
Has to be winning forever as we would always be winning.
carse of pipers
Our Clan name would be the Highland Heros…no particular reason, I just like the sound of it!
The Ryan Clan
The Paterson Clan after my family x
The Moreno Girls
I have no idea – I’d let my partner choose a name.
The NW clan. As we are from NW London!
The Pritchisons (an amalgamation of mine & my partner’s surname)
The Royal huggers – a friendly clan with a royal surname 🙂
I would call mine, the little monsters, because I think it sounds cool.
We would be The Charrammey Clan as this is a mix of three surnames in the famiy
Catfeet – just for our cat
Dogcrazywoman because I have far too many furry friends haha
Moloney because I’m boring and can never think up anything
The clan of Cats, as I love cats 🙂
clan crazy cats as we like cats.
Our family clan name would be the God3’s, as it’s a play on our surname.
Our family clan name would be the God3’s, due to our surname.
Ours would be the child clan after our surname
The Loch Clan would seem appropriate for Scotland.
The Geordie Clan as we are Geordies!
The Motley Crew Clan
the O,Neills
The Morganators ..
The Islanders. We all come from a small Island in South East England.
My niece says “Goldfishers”!
I`d go for `The Scouse` clan as guess what, were from Liverpool
My family clan name would be the Ferocious Fogerty’s!
My eldest son is football mad so he’d go for something like Clan We Kick It?
the clan maciver For me
The Rams….we are called Shepheard afterall and we would ram away our opponents.
the napkins. its a joke in our family as last name is atkin but sometimes misheard as napkin
The McJones Clan as everyone would try to keep up with us
The Nichol Clan as that is my new married surname!
The Campbell Clan because I am a Campbell
McHarris because my maiden name shares its name with a certain Scottish island
We’d be Clan of Boys – as i have 3 boys to look after.
We’d be the ‘Won’t He’s’ because our surname is Willshee and it would just be good to reverse it for a while.
would be the Free clan after my grandparetnts
The Surrey Swashbucklers!
The Tovell clan as its our surname
My clan would be the McDonalds because I like food.
Clan Grimm, because it’s how we roll in this family 🙂
Our family clan name would be the doers