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Port Royal

Das Abenteuer beginnt

In the core game, cards show ships, persons, etc., and also swords and influence points. Cards are also used for money. You turn up cards one by one and decide to stop or to continue. Expeditions are set aside separately. If you stop, you, and then all others, can take one of the revealed cards, if any are left. Ships bring money; for persons - they give advantages - you must pay. If you continue and an identical ship appears that you cannot fend off with swords on your cards on display, your turn ends. When you can discard the cards necessary for an expedition, you take it. Whoever has 10 influence points on cards and at least one expedition, wins.

In Das Abenteuer beginnt, a campaign mode is introduced for Port Royal. Each game represents an episode and is played with the rules of the core game. New features are Events and Ares ships, a new ship color that brings items for your use if you keep the ship. The active player reveals the top event card as his first action - events are resolved and placed underneath the stack; stories are read and are then displayed as tasks and give a clue for the next one. For resolving tasks, you discard cards for crossed-out symbols on the tasks, other symbols on it you only need to own, and completed tasks are marked. A competitive game is won with 12 seals and 12 goblets, a cooperative one when card 9 has been completed.

Thrilling and challenging elements like new character cards, events and stories provide fodder for those who thought Port Royal plays to straight and seemingly simple. The option to play cooperatively or competitively is yet another point in the expansion’s favor.

Players: 1-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Alexander Pfister

Artist: Klemens Franz, Jens Wiese

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2017

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Expansion, collect cards

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

New game elements and mechanisms

Cooperative or competitive play

Game is a bit more complex now

Compares to:

Port Royal

Other editions:

Pegasus (en, announced)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0