Review: Magnum Sal
Posted by James (admin) on 12th July 2011
Magnum Sal was a game that caught my attention just before last year’s Spiel in Essen as I like worker placement games; however, I never got to play it and, until recently, kept missing opportunities to do so at one of my regular groups. Magnum Sal is a game about Polish salt mining – yes, you can’t beat it for having a theme that makes it different to other games.
Each player starts with a few miners which they can use to either go into the mine or they can be an assistant at a town building. Each turn, players take turns taking 2 actions each (place workers, use building, extract salt). The goal is to make as much money as possible (primarily by mining salt). There are two distinct areas of the game: the town and the mine.
In the town, the player can use buildings to: buy tools (special one-use abilities and money at game end), hire extra workers, visit the palace (to fulfil a contract for lots of cash), pump water out of a mine (making it easier to get the salt out), use the market, etc. Also, most town buildings have space for one worker so that they get income each time any player uses that building. Read the rest of this entry »
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