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Swordfish

FISCH, SHIPS AND STORMS

You are the CEO at the helm of a Fishing Company and rent fishing boats, hire crews and captains for your boats and sail your ships out to the fishing grounds. Fish you catch need to be taken back to the harbor and sold.

In a fishing season lasting 15 turns you play six phases per turn, always all players in turn complete one Phase. 1) Acquisition of Captain, Crew, Ship, Fuel or Bait, paid with Victory Points. 2) Ship movement. 3) Weather, ships can go adrift and even sink in very bad weather. Should you lose your last ship and have not enough VP to buy a new one, harbor insurance provides a ship of value 4, complete with captain and crew, in a harbor of your choice. 4) Catching fish, aiming for swordfish or bait. Bait is fished for free; swordfish you fish with bait; for one bait each you can try to fish three times per round, that is, pull a valuable fish from the bag in the buoy color. Fishing at Flemish Cap is highly remunerative, but dangerous! 5) Selling fish in harbor, giving back ships and moving crew and captain to other harbors. 6) End of round and new order of play.

At the end of round 15 there is a final movement and selling phase; then each marker for Flemish Cap is worth 4 VP and you win with the highest total of VPs.

Swordfish offers a very realistic simulation; as in real fishing the high seas in this game weather, random drawing of fish as well as varying costs and selling prices in harbors introduce a massive element of chance which can be mitigated by careful choice of ships and trying different strategies, like blocking opponents. Careful use of victory points for ships and fuel is essential!

Players: 2-6

Age: 14+

Time: 75+

Designer: Pierluigi Frumusa, Davide Rizza

Artist: Giorgio di Michele

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Ghenos Games 2012

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Collecting, placement

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Long phases of relative inactivity

Massively imbalanced

Highly interesting topic

Topic very well simulated

Compares to:

Upon a Salty Ocean

Other editions:

Swordfish, Elfinwerks

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0