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Alma Mater

2021-07-20T19:26:07-04:00

Vendor: eggertspiele
Type: Board Games
Price: 76.49

Designers	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto Acchittocca
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	2-4
Playing Time	90-150 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	299960/alma-mater http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/299960/alma-mater/forums/63

Alma Mater has players serving as a headmaster of one of the independent universities in the 15th century. Players seek to strengthen their school's reputation and standing. To achieve these goals, players need to recruit the best staff and students, exchange knowledge with other schools, and become experts in the school's four disciplines!

—description from the publisher

Egizia: Shifting Sands

2019-12-27T07:51:46-05:00

Vendor: Stronghold Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designer	Acchittocca Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Stronghold Games
Players	2-4
Playing Time	90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	267271/egizia-shifting-sands http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/267271/egizia-shifting-sands/forums/63

Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition is an updated version of the beloved strategy game Egizia. Players travel down the Nile, placing boats as they go, to collect resources that will help them construct some of Egypt's most famous monuments. With new monuments to build, new cards to collect, and a constantly shifting river, Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition is a streamlined, modern update that both longtime fans and new players can easily pick up and enjoy.

In Egizia, players must place their pawns following the course of the Nile, moving northwards. In this way, each placement not only blocks the opponents from choosing the same square (except monuments, where multiple players are always allowed), but also forces the player to place their remaining pawns only on the squares below the one they just occupied.

When the placement phase is over, the workers of the players (which are separate from the pawns) must be fed with the grain produced in the fields. The production of each field is based on the floods of the Nile, so some fields may not give grain each turn. If a player doesn't have enough grain for all their workers, they must buy it with victory points. After that, stones are received from the owned quarries and used to build the monuments (if the right to do so was reserved earlier) along with the workers.

In this new edition, players each get a chance to build across the Colonnade, a new monument. The more columns you build, the better powers you unlock to help you on the river. Perhaps once per turn you can place boats on occupied river spaces or upstream, or gain an extra point each time you place bricks in monuments. With randomized rewards from game to game, the Colonnade is a dynamic new monument to shake up traditional gameplay.

Below the Colonnade, where the graves once stood, lie the mysterious statues — a new monument unlike anything else in Egizia. These tiny build sites are cheaper than any other monument, but they hold the potential for high reward if you fulfill their requirements. Players must plan early as they can place only one brick in a statue per round, and each level they build has more strenuous requirements for endgame bonuses.

Egizia: Shifting Sands Edition keeps all the painstaking risk/reward decisions of the original Egizia and adds new depths of strategy, balance, and gameplay for a fresh twist on a timeless classic.

Terramara (Import)

2019-07-30T13:04:17-04:00

Vendor: Quined Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 99.95

Designer	Acchittocca Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Quined Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	272427/terramara http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/272427/terramara/forums/63

Note: This game is multilingual including English

Terramara is the name of the villages founded around 1500 B.C., mid- to late Bronze Age, in Northern Italy. People lived, travelled, and traded between the Alps mountain range and the river Po. The main occupations of the Terramara people were hunting, farming and metallurgy, casting bronze tools like axe heads in stone molds. The houses in the villages were built on piles, meaning each house is built above the ground, supported by wooden stakes.

In Terramara, you play as the chief of a clan living in one of these villages. Your goal is to develop your clan, exploring lands farther away to trade with other villages, and reach sacred places. You improve your battle strength and discover new technologies to create useful artefacts. The player who develops the best clan by gaining more development points becomes leader of all of Terramara and wins the game!

—description from the publisher

Comuni

2018-01-26T17:04:21-05:00

Vendor: ElfinWerks
Type: Board Games
Price: 52.95

Designer	Acchittocca Virginio Gigli
Publisher	ElfinWerks
Players	2-5
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	37231/comuni http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37231/comuni/forums/63

In the 12th Century, in the north of Italy, there were strong cities, ruled by themselves with their own territories and army and each one with own characteristics. They were called COMUNI. The relationship among them was a more or less a pacific coexistence but the cultural, military and Economic competition was always very high.
In this game each player rules a particular COMUNE and has to increase the wealth of the city. To do this he must build structures that are the core of the Economic, Military, Cultural and Religious life.
At the same time all the player must be aware of the invasion that can come from outside and if necessary must be able to collaborate to defeat them.

Comuni is a game of strategy. The core of the game is trying to acquire "projects of buildings" (cards) that can be automatically transformed in buildings and protection walls (and subsequent upgrades).
The acquisition of the projects is made through a bidding system.
The buildings can be of four types (Economic, Military Cultural and Religious) that give different resources. The resources give different advantages during the game in the bidding phase, when you transform projects into buildings etc....
The projects cards are divided in four different decks, at the end of each of them, an invasion comes, each time stronger. The invasion hits all players and during the invasion each player must defend his city. The players also can (and have an incentive to) collaborate to fight the aggression together.
At the end of the four invasions the game ends.
The key element of this game is the ability to plan a successful strategy predicting what will be the situation several turns in advance.

Leonardo da Vinci

2015-10-05T21:24:46-04:00

Vendor: Mayfair Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 24.95

Designer	Acchittocca Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli Stefano Luperto Antonio Tinto
Publisher	Mayfair Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up

Theme:
Florence, fifteenth century. The inventors of the Renaissance created amazing machines for the Lord of the city. Become the protagonist of this age of unbelievable discoveries by realizing your inventions! You'll direct your team into the laboratories, workshops, among the shops and perhaps learn the intrigues of the palace. Only the best can rival the great Leonardo!

Summary:
A worker-placement game for 2-5 players with an interesting bidding mechanic. In many other worker-placement games, if an opponent beats you to a spot, you're out of luck. Not so in Leonardo de Vinci. Here, you can bid more workers to jump ahead in line. And people at the back of the line, can still get something, but they have to pay more to get it. The competition for resources is very dynamic and fun.

Your same workers that compete for resources may also power your laboratory, so you must balance acquiring resources with working in the laboratory so that you can complete inventions and not run out of Florins (i.e. manage cash-flow).

The key is planning your resources and production capacity to maximize the number of inventions you can make and therefore maximize the amount of Florins you can earn. The last two rounds of the game require extra careful planning because new resources cannot be acquired.

Meta:
A "gamers' game" by Acchittocca (a team of Italian game designers). Nr. 1 in the QWG Master Print Edition series