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Senators

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As a faction leader, you buy support in the Senate and are named Caesar if the majority of senators support you. In Phase I of your turn you draw and resolve an event card; in Phase II you have von action out of three options: 1.Auction – the top card of all resources and office card stacks is turned up. All give a bid in turn for any number of cards, even no card. The active player then – in any order – sells the cards to the player with the respective highest bid and takes the money or buys the card himself and pays the highest bidder. Cards without a bid he takes free of charge. Acquired office card are visible. 2. Extortion – You get three Talents from the bank and can make a bid to any or all players for one of his public cards; he sells you the card or pays you the bid to keep the card. 3. Cash In – Sell sets of three identical resources or three resources of the same value to the state or buy support of new senators for ten talents per senator. You can also play any number of office cards in any order. If you have no money, you embezzle money, which means you get five talents from the bank and lose one senator. If you lose your last senator, you are out of the game. The fourth event card WAR immediately ends the game and you win with most senators.

Sounds like a quiet set collection game, which it definitely is not – the event cards change the bidding ode or give/take money; the office cards add their own spice to the game and then players have special abilities which they can lose to extortion, so a player can have and use more than one of them. A real titbit for fans of auction games.

Players: 3-5

Age: 10+

Time: 40+

Designer: Haig & Rikki Tahta

Artist: Pascal Quidault

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Ferti / JoeKas World 2018

Web: www.ferti-games.com

Genre: Auction, resources, sets

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Can be chaotic, but is good fun

Only for fans of auction games

Version with Support cards

High replay value

Compares to:

Auction games with varying auction modes

Other editions:

DMZ Games (es), Ferti (fr), Ferti/JoeKas World (de), La Mame Games (en), Indie Boards & Games (en)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0