When managing the club, you will use 80 Resource markers and over 70 tokens – Strength, Weakness, Injury and Suspension , as well as 28 Stadium Infrastructure tokens . If you enjoyed this review and would like to read more like this, consider supporting the site by joining my monthly membership at Kofi. On Monday, you acquire Resources for your Club and draw a Board Meeting card, facing the tasks assigned to it. In addition to raw money, you must juggle several other resources which are used to re-roll dice, accomplish additional daily actions, and suit players up for matchday.

Each player needs space for three large square boards with some extra space for cards to the side or underneath. During my first teach of Eleven, I breezed through everything except the matches, then just told the other players that we’ll just do a demo of the way matches play out during the first round of the game because it is so hard to describe it to another player.As I hinted at the very beginning of the gameplay section, game length is very dependent on player count.

This involves a die roll, and depending on the makeup of your board and how they are inclined to vote, it may lead to good results or a big inconvenience that your club has to contend with for this week. And while we’re talking about these player mats, let’s address the elephant in the room: and by that, I mean the table presence of this game is enormous like a damn elephant. There are a lot of fiddly bits to the process here, but this is the closest I have ever seen to a game about the business of sports that actually works.There’s sponsors, opponents (in four categories), staff members, board members, players, youngsters, veterans, tactics, and board meetings that each have their own deck (and market, most of the time).

Each of these varieties provides different amounts of money/increase to your money stat/or other special abilities. In this campaign, you can see designer Thomas Jansen’s love for the football manager simulation video game; you will take on the role of a manager, transferring to another team if your results are promising.This includes situations such as fielding a weak team of youngsters while trying to avoid relegation. By “clear the table” I don’t mean win all the games on your team’s schedule, although that is a way to ensure that you put yourself in position to win in Eleven. We are a group of passionate individuals who share our love of board games through written and video reviews, articles, and humor, so that others can join us in our journey.