Not a great board. Games will be very short, so your troubles won't last too long. Absolutely unbalanced board. It's quite common for Seat 4 to not get a second turn.
This is an incredibly balanced board with deceptively interesting strategy. No one approach is always right. Yes, you will have games where you get unlucky on the first turn and are immediately way behind - but with three other players balancing each other out as well, an early deficit isn't a death sentence either. I've seen it all on this board.
This is a simple board with simple strategies, which can be fun. It's more of a strike at he right time kind of game vs. a stategy game. If there were more approaches to winning, and it was less deterministic, I would have rated it higher.
good concept with interesting gameplay, but it seems a little hard to get your own area on the first turn, if you don't you'll pretty much be killed by whoever did. But if everyone get's a starting area it makes for an interesting game. :)