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Gods of Rome

2024-03-27T09:02:36-04:00

Vendor: PYTHAGORAS
Type: Board Games
Price: 34.77

Designer	Antonio Sousa Lara
Publisher	PYTHAGORAS
Players	1-4
Playtime	30-90 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
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Additional Info	364689/gods-rome http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/364689/gods-rome/forums/63

The gods are divided. Rome has lost its way. We must restore its glory! With the favor of the gods, we shall lead our people to become the chosen tribe that will bring unity and strength to the empire once again.

Gods of Rome is a competitive area-control game that uses worker placement and card activation and lasts around 60 minutes. Players each choose a tribe at the start of the game and must lead that tribe to gain the gods' favor. On your turn, choose one of three actions:

Visit a God: Gain a god's blessing token, which allows you to take an enhanced action later in the game, and place one meeple in that god's color — which might also be a player's color — on the game board in a matching-colored location.
Activate a card: Place a token on an action space on your player board to add more figures to the board, move figures, and attack opponents. If you have a blessing token of the same color as the location where the action takes place, you can take an enhanced action.
Score: Advance on the victory track depending on which territories you control in regions that match the gods you have visited, then clear all action spaces and remove your tokens from the god spaces. Special objectives change the scoring of territories from game to game.

The favor track features three checkpoints, and as players gain favor, they advance on this track; if a player hits a checkpoint, all players score points based on their relative position on the favor track, then they advance to the checkpoint. After a player reaches the third checkpoint, players again score points, then whoever has the highest overall score wins.

—description from publisher

Lata

2023-09-27T03:12:56-04:00

Vendor: PYTHAGORAS
Type: Board Games
Price: 37.95

Designer	Costa Rôla
Publisher	PYTHAGORAS
Players	1-4
Playtime	20-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	374201/lata http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/374201/lata/forums/63

The Portuguese canning industry developed throughout the 20th century, going through periods of great splendor and of extraordinary importance in the social fabric of communities close to fishing centers. After the huge growth due to the immense supply of troops in Europe that World War II brought, the industry went through a period of stability with the consolidation of the quality of the products and the establishment of markets abroad.

Lata ("tin can" in English) is the name of the raw material for the containers in which the fish is packed, and it also turned out to be a popular designation for the product. In this game, players manage local canning companies in the 1950s and produce and sell the famous canned sardines or canned mackerel, the two main canned fish in the first decades of the industry, before the appearance of the very popular tuna.

The game takes place over six rounds. In each round, players buy a batch of fish, tomato or olive oil, which they then can use in their factory. These preserves will then be sold to markets. This operation will result in money that will be used to buy scorecards and increase the factory's production capacity.

The order in which each batch of raw materials is chosen is given by an auction of action points that players secretly make by sliding their disk to the left on the action track of their individual board. Whoever gives up more opportunities for action chooses the best lot, but it is clear that having more possibilities for action is vital to produce more and reach the best markets!

The player with the most victory points (VP), which are awarded at the end of the game by the scorecards, wins.

Lata is the second game in the "Quinas Collection", following the success of Café, the first game in the line.

—description from the designer

Celtae

2023-09-27T03:09:25-04:00

Vendor: PYTHAGORAS
Type: Board Games
Price: 61.95

Designer	Orlando Sá
Publisher	PYTHAGORAS
Players	1-4
Playtime	50-100 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Additional Info	374200/celtae http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/374200/celtae/forums/63

Celt — Latin Celta, plural Celtae — were an early Indo-European people who from the second millennium BCE to the first century BCE spread over much of Europe. Their tribes and groups eventually ranged from the British Isles and Portugal to as far east as Transylvania, the Black Sea coasts, and Galatia in Anatolia, and they were in part absorbed into the Roman Empire as Britons, Gauls, Boii, Galatians, Celtiberians, and Lusitans.

Celtae is a "worker swapping" game powered by a rondel in which players choose actions to perform during their turn. On their turn, players swap one of their three active workers with one of the three workers on the action space they wish to perform, then they perform the action — which will be boosted if they have in their worker pool specific types of workers: farmers, builders, soldiers, and nobles.

The farming action allows players to draw cards, and it's boosted by farmers. Cards have three types of uses in the game: building, preparing for battle, and engaging with the druid order.
The build action allows players to build and expand citadels on the board by placing their discs on them, and it's boosted by builders. At game's end, only completed citadels will score, and players have to work together to complete them and score their presence on them. Each time players build in a citadel, they gain a bonus that was randomly assigned during set-up. The combination of these bonuses with a timely performed action often results in powerful combos.
The battle action, which is boosted by soldiers, allows players to defeat increasingly stronger Roman armies and to garrison the outskirts of the citadels on the map.
The recruit action, boosted by nobles, allows players to recruit workers to their tribe, increasing the number of available workers to boost future actions. However, if you manage to send certain types of workers from your tribe into the druid order, you'll get their favor and a druid worker who functions like a joker and boosts almost every type of action.

Every player has a leader card assigned to their tribe at the beginning of the game. At a certain point on the game, players will have to choose if their leaders stay on its regular side and like that gain a small number of points at game's end or forfeit those meager points and flip it to its heroic side, which has much harder requirements for much larger endgame points.

Each time the action marker on the rondel completes a full turn, the player who currently holds the favor of Teutates places a progress marker on one of the progress cards next to the game board. At game's end, only progress cards with progress markers will score, so as the game advances, players determine what will score...and what will not.

—description from the publisher

LUSITANIA XXI

2022-09-23T11:13:21-04:00

Vendor: PYTHAGORAS
Type: Board Games
Price: 44.95

Designer	João Quintela Martins
Publisher	PYTHAGORAS
Players	2-4
Playtime	20-30 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	354378/lusitania-xxi http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/354378/lusitania-xxi/forums/63

Dreadful news reaches Rome; in the most remote part of Iberia, Lusitania, a people ungoverned and unwilling to be, has defeated the Roman Empire in another battle. Julius Caesar, Roman Emperor, is furious, he’s had enough.
"Alea iacta est" - the die has been cast.

He calls in his three best commanders with a clear message: travel across the Empire recruiting and equipping the most fearless Legionaries and Barbaric Mercenaries. Then march 4 Roman Legions into Lusitania to crush the heroic resistance. Caesar will lead one of the four legions himself and provides abundant funding to ensure success.

In this game, you either place cards from your hand into a row of 9 possible slots in front of you or exchange cards from your hand with others that best fulfill your goals.
The cards placed on the row give victory points and the first player to reach 21 points will be the winner.

Moesteiro

2022-09-21T22:55:58-04:00

Vendor: PYTHAGORAS
Type: Board Games
Price: 78.95

Designer	Costa Rôla
Publisher	PYTHAGORAS
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-60 mins
Suggested Age	10 and up
Honors	2022 5 Seasons Portuguese Game of the Year Nominee 2022 5 Seasons Best Portuguese Expert Game Nominee
Additional Info	364042/moesteiro http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/364042/moesteiro/forums/63

Towards the end of the XIV Century, King D. João I ordered the construction of one of the most elegant Portuguese
monasteries, the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória. During the construction period numerous prestigious architects, master craftsmen, and apprentices came from all over Europe motivated by financial rewards, prestige, and, importantly, the pursuit of knowledge.

In Moesteiro players are architects in charge of teams of workers and master artisans and they compete for the glory of becoming the most prolific and important architect of their time.

The game is played over five rounds. Once all dice have been placed players will perform actions in the order of the action areas, from I to V. After that each player will have an opportunity to help build the monastery. During the game Victory Points (VPs) can be earned from the King tiles, from the village and in helping to construct the monastery. At the end of the game VPs are earned for sets of different unused stonework and stained glass tiles, as well as for their position on the labour track. The winner is the player with most VPs.

-description from designer

Café (Base Game Only)

2022-04-22T04:51:42-04:00

Vendor: PYTHAGORAS
Type: Board Games
Price: 49.95

Designers	Costa Rôla
Publisher	PYTHAGORAS
Players	1-4
Playing Time	20-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Additional Info	284936/cafe http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284936/cafe/forums/63

Note: This game is in English

During King's D. João V kingdom, Portugal was a major European power. From Brazil, the king ordered Sargent Melo Palheta to travel to the French Guyana to formally establish the Utrecht Treaty of 1713 and to secretly bring coffee seeds to Brazil.
The Sargent was successful and by 1800 Brazil was already one of the largest and biggest coffee producers in the world.

In the early XX century, coffee from Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and Timor is largely appreciated in Portugal and inspires the appearance of prestige coffee shops in emblematic locations that attract the elite. Through dedication, hard work and competence, the Portuguese XX century witnesses the birth of one of the biggest coffee industries in the world.

In Café, 1 to 4 players represent coffee companies, that from plantation, aging, roasting and distribution, try to create and control the best supply chain of coffee.

—description from the publisher

Café + Expresso (Base Game + Expresso)

2022-03-02T11:46:06-05:00

Vendor: PYTHAGORAS
Type: Board Games
Price: 45.95

Designers	Costa Rôla
Publisher	PYTHAGORAS
Players	1-4
Playing Time	20-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2021 GEEKS d'OURO Best Portuguese Board Game of the Year Nominee 2021 GEEKS d'OURO Best Board Game of the Year Nominee 2020 5 Seasons Portuguese Game of the Year Winner 2020 5 Seasons Portuguese Game of the Year Nominee 2020 5 Seasons Best Solo Mode Nominee 2020 5 Seasons Best Portuguese Strategy Game Winner 2020 5 Seasons Best Portuguese Strategy Game Nominee
Expansion	Café: EXPRESSO
Additional Info	284936/cafe http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284936/cafe/forums/63

Café base game + Café: EXPRESSO Expansion in the box

Note: This game is in English

During King's D. João V kingdom, Portugal was a major European power. From Brazil, the king ordered Sargent Melo Palheta to travel to the French Guyana to formally establish the Utrecht Treaty of 1713 and to secretly bring coffee seeds to Brazil.
The Sargent was successful and by 1800 Brazil was already one of the largest and biggest coffee producers in the world.

In the early XX century, coffee from Brazil, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola and Timor is largely appreciated in Portugal and inspires the appearance of prestige coffee shops in emblematic locations that attract the elite. Through dedication, hard work and competence, the Portuguese XX century witnesses the birth of one of the biggest coffee industries in the world.

In Café, 1 to 4 players represent coffee companies, that from plantation, aging, roasting and distribution, try to create and control the best supply chain of coffee.

—description from the publisher

Garum

2020-01-31T03:53:49-05:00

Vendor: PYTHAGORAS
Type: Board Games
Price: 41.95

Designer	Ricardo Jorge Gomes
Publisher	PYTHAGORAS
Players	2-4
Playing Time	20-45 mins
Suggested Age	8 and up
Honors	2020 JUGuinho Families Game of the Year Finalist 2019 5 Seasons Portuguese Game of the Year Nominee 2019 5 Seasons Best Portuguese Family Game Nominee
Additional Info	282918/garum http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/282918/garum/forums/63

Note: This game includes English, German, Portuguese and Spanish. English rules can be found here.

Garum was a fermented fish sauce used as a condiment in the old ages; its manufacture and export was an element of prosperity and perhaps an impetus for the Roman penetration of Lusitanian and Hispanian coastal regions.

Garum from today’s Portugal and Spain was highly prized in Rome and has now inpired a versatile strategy boardgame for the whole family, ages 8 and up, that plays 2 to 4 players. Garum is a tile-laying game, which plays in about 30 minutes, it is language independent and features endless replayability, due to its board system, that ensures no two games are alike.

In Garum, each player represents a master in the preparation of a specific type of fish sauce and receives a set of 16 Cetarian Tiles; each one has 4 spaces filled by 4 colors in different proportions, though the color that the player is defending is the predominant one.

The goal of the game is to play Cetarian Tiles strategically, in order to get a huge number of his own colour symbols in selected rows or columns - the greater the influence, the higher the reward! While placing the tiles, players may apply to score, collect some bonuses and also block their opponent’s intents. Whoever scores most points is the winner.

-description from designer