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Die Burgen von Burgund

Das Kartenspiel

Princes in the valley of the Loire develop their principality, in analogy to the board game Die Burgen von Burgund, and use actions like trade, city building, husbandry or silver mining for victory points. Playing cards are used for dice and determine action options with their dice value, players choose the actions. A card display of action cards is prepared as stated in the rules.

A turn in the game comprises six rounds. In a round, you draw two action cards from your stack, choose a card, name its dice value and put the card down. Then you resolve an action according to the dice value, which always determines which card is used to implement the chosen action. Action options are: take card from a row; put a card from Projects into the Principality and either take cards - silver for mine, worker for knowledge, goods for ship, animal for pasture - or use functions of buildings; sell good from store for silver; increase number of workers; take silver or change workers/silver for victory points. You can use workers to change dice values of cards in the display and use silver to buy three action cards before, during or after the action. Once a card is placed in your principality, you cannot relocate it. After five rounds you score card triplets, bonus cards and victory point cards as well as sets of different animal cards.

In the solo version, you play against a virtual opponent.

This game has it all - variety from the cards, tactic from selection of cards, chance from drawing cards; it is a glowing example for how to pack the flair, the feeling and the fun to play a “big” board game into a small card game!

Players: 1-4

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Stefan Feld

Artist: Harald Lieske, Julien Delval

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger / alea 2016

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Development, actions based on dice values

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice re-interpretation of the board game

Simplified rules

Flair and replay value remain the same

Compares to:

Die Burgen von Burgund

Other editions:

Ravensburger (en, fr)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0