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Die Gefährten des Marco Polo

Back in Venice

In Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo, you plan your route through lucrative cities to score points with them and with completing orders, and you also try to meet targets for the final scoring. Completed tasks give advantages; in cities you can use privileges. In each round you roll and place dice on action cases and implement the action - take money, visit the market, camels, Khan’s favor, taking orders, use city cards or travel. Before or after an action you can do additional actions. After five rounds you score completed target cards, trade posts in Beijing and, with it, goods as well as the majority of completed orders.

Die Gefährten des Marco Polo, the 1^st expansion for Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo offers two modules for separate or joint use, always in combination with the core game. Die Stadt Venedig provides components for a 5^th player, and an additional board tile for Venice with an action case for trade posts, offering one case less than number of players for dice. The big palazzo case gives you city cards, the small one gives city bonus markers and the trade post itself scores points at the end of the game. There are five new characters and six new target cards.

The module Die Gefährten is a set of cards, six of which are on display for a round. The backside of the Gefährten cards carries an action case; for a die placed there you take a commodity of your choice and one of the Gefährten on display; you can usually use him during one round, but sometime only for a once-only action.

Like core game, like expansion - challenging, demanding, with interesting details that deliver a sizable number of points when used cleverly.

Players: 2-5

Age: 12+

Time: 150+

Designer: Daniele Tascini, Simone Luciani

Artist: Dennis Lohausen

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Hans im Glück 2017

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Development, Worker Placement

Users: For experts

Version: de

Rules: de en es nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Two modules

Can be used alone or together

Needs core game to play

Includes components for a 5^th player

Compares to:

Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo

Other editions:

Z-Man Games (en), 999 Games (nl), Devir (es)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0