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Lorenzo il Magnifico

Houses of Renaissance

Florence at the time of the Medici – you head a noble family and collect prestige and fame for victory points. In three eras of two rounds each you collect resources and development cards or activate card effects. The value of family members is determined by dice roll at the start of the round. At the end of each period you check your relations to the Vatican, lack of praying is penalized. In a round, you always have one action per turn, places family member at locations and perform the action in relation to the value of the person; you can enhance the value with personnel. In the advanced rules you use a personal bonus die and leader cards.

Houses of Renaissance expands Lorenzo il Magnifico with a 5^th player, complete with necessary components, as well as new components and new mechanisms in general. Rules in addition to those of the basic game are: You start with an auctioned family tile with special ability; the auction also determines your starting resources. New leader cards provide the ability Action with an action case only for the player who played the card. Special Markers are a new resource; you can discard them to receive what is depicted on them. The new Special Tower introduces four action cases to take Special Development Cards; an Adaption Track gives new cases for one of the towers. New Special Development cards are provided for territories, buildings, characters and risks, and there are also new excommunication markers.

This expansion really enhances the game, the 5^th player blends in seamlessly - if you played it once, you will want to play it always. An absolute recommendation to buy!

Players: 2-5

Age: 12+

Time: 120+

Designer: Virginio Gigli, Flaminia Brasini, Simone Luciani

Artist: Klemens Franz

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: CMON 2017

Web: www.cmon.com

Genre: development, resources

Users: For experts

Version: en

Rules: de en es it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Good mix of standard mechanisms

High replay value

Needs Lorenzo il Magnifico to play

5^th player blends in seamlessly

Compares to:

Lorenzo il Magnifico, history-based resources management

Other editions:

Cranio Creations (en it), DMZ (es)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0