So, for example, the "Consul" award is worth two points at the end of the game. The more medals you get on different roosters, the more points you score. But, with all of that, I have always felt satisfied at the amount of negotiation, bribery, and all around politicking that went on in our games.Ĭollect lots of medals on different roostersĪnother interesting element of the game is how the scoring system works. In most of the games I've played (including learning games), the game only takes 90 minutes or less. However, the players setting the taxes have a large incentive to set the taxes high (they collect money based on the tax rate), and so normally games will have high tax rates and therefore high death tolls. Additionally, the speed of the game (how quickly chickens die, thus leading you to the game end condition) is also based on the tax rates that are set throughout the game. Since it is all about negotiations, if you let the bantering drag on forever, then the game will most definitely not be short. (Should I go on, or was that enough of a "review"? No? You want more? Fine.) Now, when I say "short," keep in mind that the length of the game is entirely up to your play group.
Overall, the biggest pro for Chicken Caesar is that it is a very enjoyable political game that plays in a relatively short period of time. At the end of the game (when one player is out of roosters, or when there aren't enough roosters to fill all of the offices), whoever has the most money (including money earned based on the number of medals on your roosters) is the winner! And, when not possible, you will attempt to place excess medals on your dead roosters. So, it is important to get as many of your roosters in the chosen office as possible. Here's the catch - each rooster can only have one copy of each medal. But, moreover, you want to get a lot of the same medals. Ultimately, the goal of each of these actions is to get more medals (each office gives you a specific medal), because they are worth victory points.
(Though, lots of your roosters will be dead, and thus won't actually be in the coop.) Each turn consists of filling up offices (by votes and bribery), performing the roles of those offices (like charging taxes, and then getting killed for it), collecting medals for your offices, killing off chickens (roosters), and then attempting to honor your dead chickens (again, roosters - though the game is named after chickens). More correctly, in Chicken Caesar, your rooster family will battle it out with all of your rivals in an effort to be the most honored chickens in the coop. Now is the time to rise up and crush our opponents! And feed them to the people, fried! Because that's (apparently my made up way of) how you do things in Chicken Caesar.