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1998 ISS (Import)

2023-07-13T01:34:42-04:00

Vendor: Looping Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 43.95

Designer	Gerard Ascensi Ferran Renalias
Publisher	Looping Games
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	367280/1998-iss http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/367280/1998-iss/forums/63

In 1998 the US module Unity joined the Russian module Zayra at an altitude of 400 km. This was the inception of the International Space Station.

1998 ISS is played in rounds where the players select between 4 Earth actions:

Astronauts training, to send new astronauts to the Space Station.
Materials loading, that will be used to perform experiments.
Modules preparation. Players contributing more to send new modules will gain extra actions.
Experiments planification, to get new experiment cards.

and 4 ISS actions:

Move material outside, and use it to make your experiments
Perform experiments, they will give you most of the points in the game
Long stay in the ISS, so your astronauts stay longer in the ISS and you win victory points by researching with the effects of the microgravity in humans.
Install new modules, that will give you extra points and they can be used to perform experiments.

In other words, Earth actions will prepare you to make the ISS actions that will grant you victory points. The game is over when 5 American or 5 Russian rockets are launched and the player with the most victory points will be the winner.

-description from publisher

Lacrimosa

2022-11-29T09:26:27-05:00

Vendor: Devir
Type: Board Games
Price: 76.95

Designer	Gerard Ascensi Ferran Renalias
Publisher	Devir
Players	1-4
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	348450/lacrimosa http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/348450/lacrimosa/forums/63

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is dead. His last conscious action on his deathbed was composing the Lacrimosa movement of his Opus Requiem. You, as one of his sponsors, will meet with the widow in order to participate one last time in the funding of the works of the Austrian genius. Also, you will reminisce and retell all your memories alongside Mozart in order to make sure that she portrays you under the best light when writing her memoirs in order to enter history as Mozart's most important patron.

In Lacrimosa, players take the roles of patrons of the late musician, contributing with their fundings to the composer's works one last time. During the game, you play in two different timelines: the present and the past. In the present, you commission the missing parts of the Requiem from other composers in order to complete it. When developing past events, the game takes place in five epochs in which you contribute by buying new compositions from the composer to sell or exhibit, accompany him on the different journeys through the main courts and theaters in Europe, and gather the resources you need in order to support the musician during his career.

During the game, you play cards from a limited hand that you will improve as the game progresses. These cards can be played either as actions or as resource generators, and players need to optimize their resources and finances in order to support their best version of the story and their relationship with Mozart.

—description from the publisher

On the Origin of Species

2019-10-25T18:53:16-04:00

Vendor: Mont Tàber
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designers	Gerard Ascensi Ferran Renalias
Publisher	Mont Tàber
Players	2-4
Playing Time	45-80 mins
Suggested Age	9 and up
Additional Info	276004/origin-species http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/276004/origin-species/forums/63

"I am very anxious to see the Galapagos Islands, -- I think both the Geology & Zoology cannot fail to be very interesting." -- Charles Darwin, Letter to his sister, Catherine in August 1835.

Assist Charles Darwin during the Beagle journey across the Galapagos Islands, discovering new species and researching them in order to improve your knowledge.

During their turn, the active player must choose between two actions:

Research: Put 2 research pieces on 2 different species tiles on the board, gaining the knowledge of air, land or water habitat.
Discover: use the acquired habitat knowledge to place new species tiles on the board, obtaining victory points and evolution, characters and objects cards. Additionally advance the Beagle on its track.

The game finishes when the Beagle reaches the last space of its trip, leaving the archipelago through New Zealand. The players score the evolution points according to the final goal card, adding them to the points obtained during the game. The player with more points in the scoring track wins.

—description from the publisher