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Machi Koro

Grossstadterweiterung

You are a company owner and develop your town. For each player two establishment are laid out openly as “built” and four landmarks face-down as “under construction” to begin his town. You roll the dice, one at the beginning and two when you have completed your railway station: The corresponding type of establishment is activated and yields income, if you own the type – from bank or other players, in your turn or that of another player. Then you can build a new establishment or complete one of your landmarks; you pay the price to the bank and take the card or turn over the landmark. Whoever completes his four landmarks first, wins.

For this game two expansions have been published in English in two separate editions, called „Harbor“ und „Millionaire’s Row“. Machi Koro Die Großstadterweiterung combines those two expansions in one box. 140 neu cards introduce 23 new establishments and three additional new landmark cards. The rules recommend to use the “Harbor” expansion only in a few games, then play a few games with the second expansion, called “Special” in this edition, and only after all those trial games to combine the two expansion for a full game. Basically, you play Großstadterweiterung with the core game, using the rules of the variant “Komme, was da wolle”, in which not all of the cards are available.

When you have played Großstadterweiterung, you will know why you should get familiar with the expansions separately; the new cards are clearly more challenging and demand new tactics for the landmark projects and – in combination – also quite a bit more time to play. A nice, challenging and good expansion for a good game!

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Masao Suganuma

Artist: Noboru Hotta, Taro Hino, Mirko Suzuki

Price: ca. 13 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2015

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: City building, card placement

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en jp

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Contains both Harbor and Millionaire’s Row expansions

Some trial games are recommended

More challenging than the core game

More tactics and in-game depth accordingly

Compares to:

The City

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0