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Caverna
Höhle gegen Höhle
Epoch I: Erster Wohlstand - First Wealth. You found a mountain cave and prepare it for your tribe to work and live in. You begin with two dwarves and a small cave; in the course of eight rounds you enhance your workforce, adapt new rooms in the cave, collect plants and building material as well as precious metals to acquire wealth.
On an action board there are four open plus eight face-down action tiles; you begin with a cave board and one marker for Wood, Stone, Emmer, Flax, Food and Gold - only gold can go higher than 9 - as well as nine face-down room tiles on your board.
Each round has three phases. 1. Turn over action tile. 2. Action Phase. Players alternate to pull one of the open action tiles over to their side of the action board and implement this action; finally, in III. Round end, action tiles go back on the track. There are nine action options: Receive or swap goods; set up or tear down a wall; excavate or furnish a cavern, replenishing goods or Room actions or Anytime Action for swapping one Emmer, Flax or Gold for 1 Food immediately. In Round Eight, the Renovation action becomes available, but you can only choose it if at that moment you have more gold than your opponent. After eight rounds you add Gold and points on open furnishings in your rooms on your board. Includes a solo variant.
This is Caverna, as regards to flair and reduced to the essential in rules and components; strategic and tactical challenges are in full force despite change element in room tiles and action tiles; each action must be carefully considered - Do I further my interest or obstruct my opponent? Another Rosenberg masterpiece.
Players: 1-2
Age: 12+
Time: 40+
Designer: Uwe Rosenberg
Art: Klemens Franz, Andrea Kattnig, atelier198
Price: ca. 20 Euro
Publisher: Lookout Spiele 2017
Genre: Tile placement, development
Users: With friends
Special: 1 player
Special: 2 players
Version: de
Rules: de en es fr it jp nl pl pt ru
In-game text: no
Comments:
Excellent game for two players
Individual game, reminiscent of Caverna and Agricola
Good solo version
Epoch 2 expansion announced
Compares to:
Caverna; Agricola for 2 players
Other editions:
999 Games (nl), Crown Games (ru) Funforge (fr), Hobby Japan (jp), Lacerta (pl), Ludofy (pt), SD Games (es), uplay.it (it)
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 3
Strategy (blue): 1
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 0
Memory (orange): 0
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0