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Sail to India

In the Footsteps of Vasco Da Gama

Seafarers are searching for the route to India and need support and financing; as a noble sponsor you win with most victory points from discovering new coastal towns, sale of goods and building churches.

You start with a Historian Card and a Safe/Ship Speed card, three technology cards are on display. At the start, Lisbon and three more coastal towns are discovered = turned up and laid out. Money and victory points are called Banker and Historian and are marked with tokens on numbers; at the start one marker is placed on Ship I on your Safe/Ship Speed card, three more on "Technology" on this card and two at Lisbon. A turn comprises two actions of your choice for cost/conditions – hire help, move ship including discovering town, sell goods, build, make an invention or speed up ship or put tokens for later use as banker or historian on Lisbon and use inventions. You can use one action twice, but only discover one coastal town per turn. Anytime in your turn you can put back ships, markers, buildings, bankers and historians to Lisbon free of charge or use an invention. Markers in Lisbon are placed as bankers on your Safe /Ship Speed card or for victory points on your Historian Card. If you are out of markers in Lisbon to mark Bankers or Historians you received, an unmarked surplus is forfeit. When the last town is revealed or two players are out of markers, the round is finished and a final round is played; then you sum your victory points.

A dense and surprisingly fast playing game, with an interesting mechanism of using the same markers for different things and offering several winning strategies!

Players: 3-4

Age: 12+

Time: 60+

Designer: Hisashi Hayashi

Artist: ryo_nyamo

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Okazu Brand / Japon Brand 2013

Web: www.japonbrand.com

Genre: Worker placement

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr + jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Starting set-up for first game recommended

Attractive mechanism of marker use for multiple markings

Several different winning strategies

Low element of chance

Compares to:

Worker Placement in general, first game in this combination

Other editions:

AEG, USA (announced); Game Field, Japan, Okazu Brand, Japan;

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0