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Another fun and well balanced hybrid. What's particularly noteworthy about this is the way in which conflict is used as a threat to drive the play rather than being a factor in and of itself: because you need to spend at least 2 turns lining up an attack it's not hard to prepare a defence of some sort so actual battles are fairly rare. But you still get plenty of interaction & metagame because players have to respond to the *threat* of attack yet the game as a whole stays balanced. Excellent production values and plenty of variety. Big downside is that early quarter of game is quite dull as there's no value in early conflict and all the gods are valuable so auction lacks tension. But it certainly comes alive later on!