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UCHRONIA

Urban development in Fantasy land

There was a long controversy going on about the double publishing of Glory to Rome and Uchronia by Carl Chudyk, but this has now been resolved and both versions are available:

You are the patriarch of a Noble House on Uchronia and rival with other houses for urban development and favors from the population. The mechanism is simple – as the active player you decide whether to issue an order, that is, to command or to plot; should you command you play a card for its corresponding effect, or any two cards as a joker for an effect. Possible effects of commanding an order are: Production – you transfer a card from the Forum to your hand; Exploration – you transfer a card from your hand into your stock. Draconians – you reveal a card from your hand and transfer an identical card from the forum into your stock and take a card of this type from each player who chose to issue an order in his last turn. Trade – you use a card from stock for an activity. Construction – you start or expand a new building. Completed buildings yield their special ability for the rest of the game. If you plot you first copy an order in the domain of another player if you own an activity of the same color and then draw cards up to a hand of five or one card if you already hold five cards.

When a player – depending on the number of players – has collected 14 to 20 victory points the game ends and at the end of the round you win with most victory points.

A nicely adapted variant with an interesting topic and a well-done mix of luck when drawing cards and tactic as well as some strategy in using those cards.

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 60+

Designer: Carl Chudyk

Art: Igor Polouchine, Marcín Jakubowski, Benjamin Raynal

Price: ca. 24 Euro

Publisher: iello 2012

Web: www.iello.fr

Genre: Resources management game

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: en fr + jp ru

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Adaptation of Glory to Rome

Different topic

Interesting due to multi-purpose cards

Very attractive mix of chance and tactic

Compares to:

Glory to Rome, San Juan for multiple purpose cards

Other editions:

Hobby Japan, Hobbygames Russia

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0