Silos + Crop Circles Expansion (Reiner Knizia)

The Crop Circles Expansion is included IN the box.

It is the year glork-too-vleep, or mid-20th century according to Earthling time. We recently stumbled across this planet called Earth and discovered intelligent, albeit primitive, life. The most intelligent and valuable of these specimens are the creatures known as cows. Alas, for our galactic goals we must settle upon the second-most intelligent form of life on Earth: the human being. These creatures are just intelligent enough. Their brains appear eager to be molded, and their civilization perfect for our siloing.

Aliens have come to silo humans — brainwash, steer, and preserve human civilization — for their cosmic purposes! In SILOS (Secret InterLopers from Outer Space), players control competing factions of aliens who abduct and brainwash humans and cows while secretly invading their community. Players tussle for majority influence in the key locations of this small town as they seek to activate location powers and control human specimens for societal power.

Players take turns repositioning their alien figures and activating an event card. The objective is to collect a complete set of humans: politicians, government operators, influencers, and professionals. A complete set will earn a player a societal power emblem, and the first player to earn five emblems wins the game. Cows are particularly valuable and thus count as wild tokens toward forming a complete set.

SILOS is a remastered edition of Reiner Knizia's Municipium that introduces many innovations by:

• Restructuring the player psychology via clear, public, and easy card counting
• Increasing the gameplay variety and strategies with modular location power tiles
• Enhancing tactical considerations with powerful leader figures
• Broadening the appeal of the theme and presentation with wacky alien conspiracy art by Kwanchai Moriya and Brigette Indelicato
• Enlivening the production with disguised alien figures, abductable cows, and a roaming UFO

About the Crop Circles Expansion:

This expansion features two new modules. The Crop Circles Module introduces another element of long-term strategy. The Permanent Skill Tiles Module features diverging asymmetry. You may decide to include one or both modules in your plays of SILOS, but we only recommend the Permanent Skill Tiles Module for experienced players

Note: This mini-expansion increases the complexity and playing time of the game.