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Madame Ching

1808 in the China seas

You are a young pirate in the service of Madame Ching and complete missions for her, sink ships of the Emperor, support fishing villages and try to achieve command of the China Pearl.

You hold four Navigation cards, Ability cards are set out and Encounter cards are stacked. For a round in the game one navigation card per player is laid out on the board, the first card face-down, the others open. Then all players secretly choose a navigation card from hand and then all reveal their card simultaneously and resolve the cards in descending order of their numbers:

Depending of the number on your card in relation to the top card in your display you begin a new expedition or continue an expedition by laying out the card and then moving your ship straight ahead when the card color is already in your expedition, or diagonally if not. When you cross one of the lines on the board you receive encounter cards; if you are first to reach cases 49 or 56, you receive the  “Hafen von Hongkong” card. When you end an expedition you can complete missions or acquire abilities - if you have all four abilities, you take command of the China Pearl – and can then play an encounter card and must then take up one of the navigation cards on display.

When all missions are completed or if someone takes command of the China Pearl, you score – at the end of the round - gold, jewels and bonuses for ability cards, Hafen von Hong Kong and China Pearl cards as well as encounter cards.

Colorful, thrilling, a family game with a nicely balanced mix of tactic and luck, that you want to play again to try out the different possibilities.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Bruno Cathala, Ludovic Maublanc

Artist: Vincent Dutrait

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Hurrican Games 2014

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Set collecting

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de es fr it + en nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very nice topic

Attractive design

Excellent family game

Good mix of tactic and luck

Compares to:

All games using cards for movement, with collecting mechanism

Other editions:

US edition (de en fr nl)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0