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Zhanguo: The First Empire

2023-09-05T17:17:33-04:00

Vendor: Sorry We Are French
Type: Board Games
Price: 69.95

Designer	Marco Canetta Stefania Niccolini
Publisher	Sorry We Are French
Players	1-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Additional Info	381819/zhanguo-first-empire http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/381819/zhanguo-first-empire/forums/63

In 221 B.C., all the so-called Warring States are brought together. This is the birth of the vast Chinese empire, ruled by Qin Shi Huangdi. A skilled and determined strategist, but also a shrewd governor, he undertakes actions aimed at standardizing all the elements at the basis of Chinese society and culture; he imposes a single script and a single currency, then he establishes a new system of laws equal for all. He also builds palaces, installs local governors, and above all, starts the works for the construction of the greatest building in the history of mankind: the Great Wall.

A single life cannot suffice for such a vast empire. He sends ships to distant lands in search of the legendary elixir of life, and he builds a huge mausoleum containing the scale reconstruction of his empire. In defense of it for eternity, he deploys an impressive terracotta army...

In Zhanguo: The First Empire, you go along with the Emperor's plans to offer your family a place in the terracotta army. To help you in this challenging task, six cards will be at your disposal every round. They will give you permanent support during the rest of the game or will obtain the Emperor's approval for your actions.

At the end of the game, the player who made the greatest contribution to the Emperor's cause by scoring the most points wins!

—description from the publisher

Railroad Revolution

2020-08-03T14:24:54-04:00

Vendor: What's Your Game?
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.95

Designer	Marco Canetta, Stefania Niccolini
Publisher	What's Your Game?
Players	2-4
Playtime	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion	Railroad Revolution: Railroad Evolution
Honors	2016 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee
Additional Info	207691/railroad-revolution https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/207691/railroad-revolution/forums/63

Ambition and a thirst for wealth have driven humanity to strive for ever greater progress. In America, during the 19th century, battles were waged between huge railway corporations that sought to connect state to state and coast with coast… making themselves filthy rich in the process.
Railroad Revolution drops you straight into the middle of these tempestuous years; a time that changed America forever.
In Railroad Revolution, you will manage your own railroad company, ruthlessly competing to be the most powerful railroad tycoon across all America.
You will build railroads, establish stations in your connected cities, expand the network of telegraph lines, and chase your objectives, increasing the value of your company with every action you take.

You start with mainly a team of non-specialized workers, but during the game you can hire additional ones with specific skill sets. The cost or effect of an action is determined by the type of worker that does it.

To complete your company objectives, you will have to remove some of your workers from your active pool, promoting them to managerial positions.
You must carefully assign each of your workers to perform the right action at the right time in order to exploit their specializations in the best way. You need to decide which ones to promote and which are instead still needed to take actions, as your priorities will change from turn to turn.

Railroad Revolution is a fast paced game with relatively simple rules, and it provides you with interesting and challenging decisions. Having a good strategy and finding the correct timing to implement it, is the key to winning the game.

Pirates Under Fire

2020-04-22T22:27:41-04:00

Vendor: Explor8
Type: Board Games
Price: 29.74

Designers	Marco Canetta Stefania Niccolini
Publisher	Explor8
Players	2
Playing Time	25-35 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	287217/pirates-under-fire http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/287217/pirates-under-fire/forums/63

Pirates Under Fire is an original, tactical, and dynamic two-player tile game that lasts 30 minutes and that can be played from 10 years old.

Each player is a pirate in charge of a fleet; each ship is numbered from 1 to 9, each of them having a special ability. The goal of the game is to deploy your ships to form combinations while performing their effects.

Players perform their turns one after another by laying a ship on a sea space. They apply the effect of the sea space and the effect of the ship tile. This is the main action. They can also perform an optional action: buying a mercenary ship by paying its cost. The game ends when each player has played 16 turns.

At the end of the game, players score victory points (VPs) for:
• the combinations made (three or more ship tiles laid side by side with identical numbers or forming a sequence of increasing or decreasing numbers),
• the ships laid in the opponent player's sea side,
• some mercenary ships, and
• the VP tokens collected during the game.

The player with the most VPs wins.

—description from the publisher

Railroad Revolution: Railroad Evolution (Import)

2019-10-26T21:31:48-04:00

Vendor: What's Your Game?
Type: Board Games
Price: 35.95

Designers	Marco Canetta Stefania Niccolini
Publisher	What's Your Game?
Players	2-4
Playing Time	45-90 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Expansion For	Railroad Revolution (Import)
Additional Info	251057/railroad-revolution-railroad-evolution http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/251057/railroad-revolution-railroad-evolution/forums/63

Note: This game includes English, French, German. For a preview, English rule can be found here.

Railroad Evolution is an expansion for Railroad Revolution.

Welcome back to Railroad Revolution!

New opportunities are calling, giving you another way for you to enjoy the game. The Railroad has evolved.

Railroad Evolution changes the gameplay and introduces different strategies for players to discover.

This expansion set includes a new game board and features:

- A different scoring system for Telegraph connections.
- Wagons and Tenders which connect to your trains in order to make them more powerful.
- A new customisable “Performance” scoring system, including player board extensions.

The train is leaving the station. All aboard!

Rhein: River Trade

2017-07-03T20:11:01-04:00

Vendor: Devir Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 55.95

Designer	Marco Canetta Stefania Niccolini
Publisher	Devir Americas
Players	2-5
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	114784/rhein-river-trade http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/114784/rhein-river-trade/forums/63

The Rhein is one of the longest rivers in Europe. Its path has represented a vital route for commerce and transport since ancient times, taking ships from the heart of the continent across various countries all the way to the North Sea. Every day, its slow but tireless flow accompanies planes, trains, ships and trucks in a close-knit network of connections between major cities.

Rhein: River Trade is an absorbing game of commerce and transportation for 2-5 industrious players 12 years of age and up. The most important companies in Basel receive, assess, and acquire goods orders from the various cities located on or near the Rhine, and even as far away as London. Each order defines the destination and the number of containers, the delivery time, the agreed price, and the possible penalty. Using shared planes, trains and ships and their own trucks, the players must arrange these shipments, limiting the costs and making sure that delivery times are respected. The player who earns the most money wins.

ZhanGuo

2014-12-27T11:35:00-05:00

Vendor: What's Your Game?
Type: Board Games
Price: 55.95

Designer	Marco Canetta Stefania Niccolini
Publisher	What's Your Game?
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Additional Info	160495/zhanguo http://boardgamegeek.com/forum/1536579/zhanguo/reviews

Between 230 and 221 B.C., the ambitious and extremely young king of Qin, Ying Zheng, unified China, adding all the other so-called Warring States (ZhanGuo) to his empire. Through this, Ying Zheng became the first emperor in Chinese history, taking the title of Qin Shi Huang Di.

Plenty of things had to change in order to make the Chinese empire whole, and Qin Shi Huang Di didn't waste any time. He divided the empire into prefectures, personally appointing central and local functionaries; afterward, he decreed that the same writing symbols had to be used throughout the entire nation. Furthermore, he unified the laws and the units of measure, particularly the currency, creating amazing conditions for the economic development and growth of the empire.

Internal decisions were not the only things that shaped this new unified nation. From the North, the menace of the Hsiungnu barbarians kept shaking the empire, and Qin Shi Huang Di knew that the only way to stop that menace was to build one of the most ambitious buildings in human history: The Great Wall of China. Thousands of peasants left their fields to take part in the construction, not only of the Great Wall, but also of roads, channels, palaces, and majestic buildings.

In ZhanGuo, you are the emperor's emissaries, and you have been assigned the challenging task of contributing to the process of unifying the empire, helping to build the wall, and all infrastructures needed. During the five rounds of the game, you must make the best of the few cards you get each round. You can play each card either on your own player board to increase your personal power in the empire, or on the game board to recruit manpower, construct buildings wanted by the emperor, call reinforcements from Qin, and move the armies from kingdom to kingdom.

Each player has to choose the best time and best way to play his cards in order to earn the emperor’s favors. Careful, though, because trying to get too much power, or exploiting the workers for personal gain could increase dissatisfaction among the populace, and consequently increase the risk of uprisings in the newly added kingdoms. Whoever is able to make the greatest contribution to the emperor's cause, while at the same time keeping the citizens placid, will be the winner.

The Doge Ship

2014-01-11T16:07:00-05:00

Vendor: Rio Grande Games
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designer	Marco Canetta, Stefania Niccolini
Publisher	Rio Grande Games
Players	2-5
Playtime	90 mins
Suggested Age	13 and up
Additional Info	122313/doge-ship https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/122313/doge-ship/forums/63

Venice, five centuries ago – In order to celebrate the glory of Venice, the Doge, the maximum authority of the Republic, ordered the construction of a new state ship.

In The Doge Ship, the players play the role of the most skilled shipbuilders of Venice who are called by the Doge to cooperate on the construction of the new ship. Each player has to build parts of the Ship in order to earn victory points, but also Gondolas to get money, and Barriers for the protection of the shipyard and the city. The task is not easy: At the beginning of each round, the cost of the actions might change, as well as the demands of the Doge. When the construction of the ship is finished, only one will be the winner and will gain the favour of the Doge.

In this game players have to manage their five actions per round competing with other players on these available. Players can work on a part of the Doge Ship to gain VP, on Gondolas to make money, or on Barriers to protect Venice from High Water effects and save their shipyard. Manage money is fundamental as all materials costs something. The game ends when the Doge Ship is complete.X