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Norderwind

RIch cargo on the high seas

As a merchant captain you need to supply the harbor towns of Handelsbund with cargo or gold, stop pirate ships and arrest their captains. Each player uses his own 3D ship which is equipped in due course with crew, canons and sails.

In your turn you first take one gold - if you have none - and then choose one of three sea tile stacks. From the chosen stack you turn up one tile after the other and place them in a row, up to a maximum number equal to your sail level. A sea card is always resolved before you turn up the next one.

When a sea tile is marked with an „E“, you roll for an event - taking gold or fight pirates; pirates are fought with the black combat die; you have one roll per canon on your ship and win a pirate captain for your jail with a number of hits equal to the strength of the pirate ship. A card marked with “A” incurs action which you can implement. You are limited to two action all over your turn, so after two actions your turn ends even if you could turn over more tiles. Actions are “Equipment Harbor“ for upgrading your ship for gold, „Trade Harbor“ or „Trader“ for selling and buying cargo; „Port of Destination“ to complete orders and „Searching wrecked ship“ for gold from stock. You win with eight or ten victory point markers acquired with completed orders and bonuses.

Norderwind is an eye-catcher and fun to play due to the marvelous equipment and design and a good, upscale family game with decreasing challenge in the course of the game, as with good management ships are easy to equip and pirates become more and more easily vincible.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Klaus Teuber

Artist: Franz & Imelda Vohwinkel

Price: ca. 37 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2014

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Resources management

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en es nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Fantastic components

Simple mechanics, easily explained

Pirates get less menacing in the course of the game

Good, interesting family game

Compares to:

Die neuen Entdecker for uncovering destinations

Other editions:

999 Games, Devir, Z-Man Games

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0