Family                 

Alter                    8

Spezial                

AntwerpEN

Ports of Europe

Following Rotterdam now comes Antwerp in the series Ports of Europe. Players direct a fleet, transport resources and process them in the harbor into manufactured articles, all in order to dominate Antwerp Harbor with the majority of victory Points. The game works in analogy to its predecessor Rotterdam, with some new details and some amendments. The order of moves in your turn is now up to your choice. Sluices are a barrier between the inner and outer harbor, you can reach the docks only if you own the necessary cards to operate the sluices. The river Schelde and the new harbor introduce double shipping channels, the sluices already mentioned and a transit harbor. Furthermore, resources differ from manufactured articles. Those have a value between 1 and 4 points, orders can earn you up to 10 points. The joker ship card is missing and there are new ship cards in Antwerp. This is amended by special action cards and ships now deliver the goods directly upon arrival in the harbor. In your turn you can put a ship with a resource of your choice on a starting position, name a color and move all ships on channels of that color, or you can swap an order or swap products with other players, or fill and order or play ship cards or play sluice cards. When you have filled three orders all players have one final turn and then you score points for filled orders and manufactured article cards, the winner is the player with most points.

Antwerpen is a very well-working game with attractive mechanisms, works well with any number of players and the rule changes result in a fantastic game for the whole family.

Spieler         : 2-4

Alter            : ages 8+

Dauer           : ca. 45 min

Autor           : Hans van Tol

Grafik          : Wim Euverman, Yvon-Cheryl Scholten

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 30 Euro

Verlag          : The Game Master 2010

www.thegamemaster.nl

Genre                    : Transport and logistics game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Version        : multi

Regeln         : de en fr nl

Text im Spiel : nein

Kommentar:

Attractive rule amendments

Good mechanism for movement

Rule changes result in a simpler and more straightforward game than Rotterdam and thus a recommendable family game

Vergleichbar:

Rotterdam

Zufall                            3

Taktik                  2

Strategie__                  1

Kreativität          

Wissen_

Gedächtnis         

Kommunikation   3

Interaktion                   2

Geschicklichkeit 

Action