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Forwarder of Xanadu

Shipper in Bonten

In the alternate universe of Bonten, new propellants have triggered the Industrial Revolution, and trade is booming courtesy of large freight ships. This boom, however, demands specialists that can transport and deliver huge amount of freight with expertise - this created the new profession of Shipper.

The City of Hotan with its areas next to harbor is laid out; standard and special orders are stacked, three of each are displayed as the market. As a freight company you have four of your own special abilities plus two random ones.

Players in turn place one worker - to receive goods, resolve the indicated number of actions - or pass, Commodities are added any way to those already in place. Action options are: Ship: Move a commodity to an adjacent region, depending on storage capacity. Refine: Upgrade a commodity, in Hotan or your own branch officer. Market: Complete an order to receive points and share marker, or Dailies : complete an order without receiving a share marker. When all workers are placed or all have passed,, the round ends with company upgrades - you remove a proxy worker from a respective position on tracks for Storage, Transport, Upgrade or Abilities on the company board, the worker can be used once. After round III, you score share majorities, after round Vi, at the end of the game, company bonuses and share majorities.

Three action options and none of them can be completely blocked in your turn - an unusual detail in a worker placement game without optimization; the big frustration does not happen because there is always something rewarding to to. A game that you should try out if the chance presents itself.

Players: 3-5

Age: 14+

Time: 120+

Designer: kuro

Artist: Team

Price: ca. 45 Euro

Publisher: Manifest Destiny / Japon Brand 2018

Web: www.japonbrand.com

Genre: Worker placement, economics

Users: For experts

Version: multi

Rules: en jp

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Well-written rules with Comics extra

Worker Placement without real  scarcity

Proxy workers are an interesting detail

Compares to:

Worker Placement with economics topic

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0