Attika is a tile-laying area-control networking game with a city building theme.
First, a layout is created with cities at the ends and tiles containing resources in between. A personal board is primed with tokens. The personal board indicates the precedence for placing tokens for free adjacent to other tokens.
Players then do one of two things: 1) draw a token from one of four draw piles. Then that token is placed on his personal board or on the game board. This can be done twice. 2) place a token from the personal board onto the game board. This can be done three times.
Each token has a specific number of resources that is required to place it on the game board. A player may use resource cards from hand, or resources visible on the game board on or adjacent to the hex the token is placed. It costs an additional resource to create a new network for each of the player's existing network. Two alternate resources may be used for any missing resource.
The personal board shows combinations of tokens that create groups that, when completely placed, win the player an extra action marker, which can be redeemed during any turn. The groups indicate which tokens may be placed for free if adjacent to certain other tokens.
A player can refuse to draw or place a token, and draw a resource card instead.
When a pile is depleted, the player places an additional game board tile adjacent to the existing game board, which adds additional hexes and resources.
The object of the game is to connect two cities, or to use up all piles of tokens.
The production quality is high. The map tiles and the tokens are thick cardboard. The personal board is heavy card stock. The artwork is simple but effective.
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