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CMON Limited  |  SKU: CMONBMC001

Blue Moon City

€34.17 EUR
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Description
Designer Reiner Knizia
Publisher CMON Limited
Players 2-4
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up

Blue Moon City - the board game - picks up where the two-player game, (Blue Moon), ended: the reconstruction of the destroyed city of Blue Moon. The board, illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel as well as many well-known American fantasy artists, consists of 21 large building tiles, which show building plans on one side and the buildings in their reconstructed glory on the other. As in the 2-player game, the game includes 3 large molded plastic dragons.

At the start of the game, the board tiles all show their building plan sides. The object of the game is to use cards featuring the races of Blue Moon to help rebuild the city and, at the end, put the large Crystal of the Obelisk in the middle of the city back together. Whenever a building is completely rebuilt, its tile is turned back over to its rebuilt side. The players who helped with a building get crystals and dragon favors, which can be traded in for crystals at certain times.

The player who first manages to add the required number of markers by paying crystals to the Obelisk wins the game. (four markers in a 4-player game, five markers in a 3-player game, and six markers in a 2-player game)

There are two mini-expansions for this game (Blue Moon City: Expansion Tile Sets 1 & 2), each consisting of two tiles that can be added to the main game either separately or combined. The first mini-expansion was included with the Der Knizia Almanach. The second mini-expansion was included in the 6/06 issue of Spielbox.


Original Knizia design--after dragon scales score, ALL players discard scales. This rule was modified by the publisher.


Customer Reviews

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Patrick Drapeau
Fun but colourblind players beware!

This games offers so much for the price but it won't see much play until I find a way (stickers, maybe?) to overcome the dreadful colour patterns. The original version was not as pretty but everyone could distinguish between the colours. CMON should be ashamed as even non-colourblind players found it to be a challenge. In my copy of the game, that plastics bases for the dragons simply won't click and we had to use the bases as collars around the dragons' necks. Great game from Knizia, mediocre redesign by CMON.

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Marc Brisebois
Surprisingly Fun!

I was a little skeptical when I purchased this game (the re-print from 2018). Didn't know much about it, but Tom Vasel recommends it highly on his UTube vids. After the first play, I was surprised at how much fun this game is! For this price, it is easy to learn and play with younger family, but one could analyze the game with deep strategy in mind. It is strangely enough somewhat of an area control concept, that rewards highly for remaining in one area and rebuilding adjacent tiles. However, it is also a bit of a race to flip tiles before your opponents get to them. And the card mechanism is fun, too, which is the heart of the game. Overall, I came away very satisfied. I heard the negative reviews of the muted and similar colours of the various action tiles, but I thought "Bah, people exaggerate so much and love to complain." BUT, it's true, the colours are very similar, REALLY!... maroon and brown? Then Light Grey, Bone white and Tan? I mean come on, of all the colours of the spectrum, that is what you chose!? Although these colours sound different, the tones on the board are very close together. Even my wife, who is admittedly better at seeing colours than me (I'm a typical guy who sees only the main 10 colours or so!!), she was complaining about the colours. Sometimes we occasionally were two-thirds of the way through our entire turn, and then realized that we were basing our actions on the WRONG colour! So yes, that is frustrating, but the game itself is great and really fun! Don;t let the colour issue turn you off, for this price buy it, or wait til it's on sale, even better!
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