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Urbania

Refurbishing the town with specialists

As a town planner you must renovate a town, refurbish and re-develop it again according to urban standards. Five of 49 buildings are put on the board at the start of the game, renovated side up, the remaining 44 buildings are distributed randomly on the remaining districts, non-renovated side up,. Each player is dealt five resources cards and chooses a color. Five more resources cards are displayed as open stock; the project cards are stacked face down and the specialist cards are also displayed.

In your turn you must always choose two actions out a choice of four actions and implement them: 1) Draw two cards of your choice from the resources stack, the project stack or the resources display. There is no limit to the number of cards you can hold. 2) Renovate a building by playing cards; the chosen building must be adjacent to one already renovated and you place workers from your hand, represented by resources cards in corresponding colors and showing the necessary number of icons. The marker for the building on the value track is adjusted. 3) Hire a specialist from the reserve or from another player by discarding corresponding resources cards. 4) Submit a project by displaying a card. At the end of your turn you score specialists that you employ. When there 2 or fewer non-renovated buildings in a district or three specialists are worth more than 5, you score your submitted project after a final round.

Urbania offers very interesting mechanisms, which remind one a bit of Ticket to Ride and work very well; at the end of the game one must take good care not to lose one’s grasp on the board to the plenitude of colors.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Simone Luciani

Art: Franz Vohwinkel

Price: ca. 43 Euro

Publisher: Mayfair Games 2012

Web: www.mayfairgames.com

Genre: Placement game with resources

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Nice graphics, but difficult to visually distinguish details, some colors are similar

Nicely interacting mechanisms

Fast entry into the game

Compares to:

Other city building games for the topic, Ticket to Ride for some of the mechanism

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0