Monthly Board Game Night - Theme: Worker Placement & Area Control

March your meeples to victory!

Worker placement is a form of action drafting, where players place meeples/pawns or dice to trigger an action from a set of actions available to all players, generally one-at-a-time and in turn order. Many combine a form of engine building involved where players can improve and refine their own selection of actions.
Games include Everdell, Lords of Waterdeep, Targi, Agricola, Waggle Dance... plus the creatively titled Worker Placement.

In area control games players win control of spaces in the game by having the majority of units/meeples or influence in that area. As such, it can be viewed as a sub-category of Auction/Bidding in that players can up their "bids" for specific areas through the placement of units or meeples. Small World, Carcassonne and El Grande are good examples.