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Die Baumeister Mittelalter

Bricks from the Apprentice for the abbey

As a builder, you want to employ your workers to construct buildings of the highest possible value. Five buildings are on display, as are five worker; each player begins the game with an apprentice and coins of value 10. In your turn, you have three free actions and can spend five coins for each additional action you want to take.

Possible actions are: Start on a building, hire workers, send workers to work or take money. To start a building or to hire a worker you take one of the cards on display put it down in your display and refill the line from the stack; there is now limit to the number of buildings in progress or workers in your display. If you send a worker out to work, you place him next to a building and pay the coins stated on the worker card. The worker card now contributes to the building the type and number of resources stated on the card. Then the workers next to a building have delivered the total of the necessary resources, the building is complete. You take back your workers and receive the number of coins for the building from the bank. The workers can be sent out again in the same turn to another building. Some of the buildings are machines that can be used like a worker, but without payment, when completed. If someone acquires 17 victory points from his buildings, you win at the end of the round with most victory points.

A neat little game with simple rules that however provides lots of options for tactic to achieve the best possible result from combinations of workers, buildings, machine and making use of additional actions.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Frédéric Henry

Artist: Sabrina Miramon

Price: ca. 14 Euro

Publisher: Bombyx/Asmodee 2014

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Set collecting, worker placement

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en fr hu

In-game text: no

Comments:

Packed in a tin, good to take along

Good, easy rules

Lots of tactic due to manifold combination options

Compares to:

Games where you collect sets of cards to complete tasks with them

Other editions:

Bombyx France, Asterion Press, Gém Klub, rebel.pl (announced)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0