Samurai

Each player has an identical force of warriors, priests, and peasants to use to gain control of the important power figures of Old Japan. The players deploy their forces to the spaces around the power figures. When a figure is surrounded, it is captured by the player with the strongest sympathetic force. To win, a player must gain dominance with one of the powers while getting better support from the other powers than the other players.

Author: Reiner Knizia
Type: Area control
Number of players: 2-4
Age of players: 10+
Length: 45-60 minutes