Little Town – Iello – Review

Goal

The goal of Little Town is to score the most victory points by building structures, activating abilities, and generating resources and money.

Setup

Select a side of the board and place between the players.  Place the Hay tiles, randomly select 12 other tiles, and place them face upon the board.  Each player gets 3 coins, several meeples houses of their chosen color based upon the number of players in the game.  Shuffle the Objective cards and hand several cards to each player based upon the number of players. Place the point and round tracker tokens on the board.  First player is determined randomly and given the token.

Turns

You play Little Town over four rounds.  Each player has a number of actions per round based upon the number of meeples they have.  A player has two choices for actions: Gather and Activate, or Build a Building.

For a Gather and Activate action, you place your meeple on an empty square and activate  to gather resources, coins, and victory points.  You don’t have to activate any of the squares if you don’t want to. Buildings may also have effects that activate at the end of a round.

For a Build a Building action, place your meeple in the construction area (any number of meeples can be here).  Pay the cost of your chosen building and place the building on an empty location (no meeple, no building, no terrain).

At the end of a round, you will have to pay your meeple workers using resources.  If you don’t have enough resources, you’ll lose victory points.