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Port Royal

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Cards show Ships, Persons, Expeditions or Tax Increases, with symbols and cost/influence points. You turn up cards one by one and decide after each on if you  stop or continue. Expeditions are set aside separately. If you stop, you and then all others can take one of the revealed cards. Ships give cards as money; persons for advantages and symbols cost money. If you continue to turn up cards and cannot fend off a second identical ship using swords on cards in your display, your turn ends. An expedition is paid for with symbols from your display.

In the expansion events in the harbor step up: Contracts are added to the expeditions, you can meet competitively each on his one or cooperatively in a race against time; the time frame is set by a timer card stack – with its size in relation to player numbers and seals on orders - of which you draw a card per turn. If you use the contracts, you need to use the new characters and ships: Clerk for taking one additional card without payment to the active player; Gunner for money based on ships in the harbor display, Vice Admiral for coins per Vice Admiral based on cards in the harbor and two new ships per color. You win either as in the core game with 12 influence points on your cards or cooperatively with a given number of contracts met. There is also a solo version.

A harmonious and well-working expansion that intensifies play without making it more complex or more complicated and yet the contracts bring with them the need for different strategies, as the difficulty to meet them does vary considerably. All in all a must-have for all who love to play Port Royal.

Players: 1-5

Age: 8+

Time: 50+

Designer: Alexander Pfister

Artist: Klemens Franz, Hans-Georg Schneider

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2015

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Reveal cards, collect sets

Users: For families

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Two modules – characters + ships and orders

Play options are extended

Character of the game remains unchanged

Very attractive expansion

Compares to:

Port Royal

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0