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Riga

MArkets in the Baltic

You represent your family and need to develop the Baltic market from Riga; every year, goods are delivered from Lübeck and you sell them - Cloth, Glass, Wine and Grain - in the neighboring harbors of Visby, Tallinn, Riga and Danzig and set up buildings there.

Goods and buildings are stacked separately; you draw cards to a value of 6; then you draw two face-down buildings, select one and discard the other. If you use the Riga cards, each player gets one set of Monastery, School, Storehouse and Exchange, they are not hand cards!

Rounds of the game represent years: Spring for supplies; goods cards are displayed in rows and the building display is adapted and replenished; Summer - one turn per player in clockwise direction; Autumn - one turn per player in counter-clockwise direction; Winter - checking of hand card limit and change of starting player.

A player turn comprises taking cards - either one row of goods or one building - and building of up to three buildings, which can be Riga buildings; you can also use the effect of buildings previously built. You pay building costs with goods from your hand, the value of goods changes with the location. Surplus amounts are forfeit, there is no change; and you cannot transfer a surplus from one building to a second one build afterwards. Constructed buildings score victory points after eight or nine years, building still in hand and Riga buildings not built cause penalty points.

Definitely a harmonious and well-working continuation of the series after Visby and Tallinn, with lots of game depth and tactic with few components and rules. It is important, which buildings you build in which order.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 50+

Designer: Stefan Risthaus

Artist: Fiore GmbH, Stefan Malz

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Ostia Spiele 2017

Web: www.ostia-spiele.de

Genre: Cards, goods, buildings

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

3^rd part of the Baltic/Hanse series

Compares to:

Building construction via cards from hand and display

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

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