presentation

Xi’an

Terracotta army

As a delegate of the Emperor, you lead a team of workers to collect resources, craft and decorate the warrior statues and equip them with weapons made from wood or bronze, all to collect prestige.  

You draw four cards per round; each round comprises two turns for which you use two cards per turn - the top on for worker actions, the bottom one (as laid out by you) for building actions. Worker actions are Tax Collector for money, Craftsman for clay blocks, Miner for color pigments or permanent Helper until the end of the game. Building actions: The number of master builders per pair of building spaces is limited; entering occupied buildings costs you one coin per master builder in it; you can enter the same building twice per round. You can only enter a building, if you can implement its action; you can also take a coin instead of entering a building; if you cannot pay all the building cost, you lose prestige accordingly. In the Workshop, you craft a warrior; in the Lab, you paint a warrior; in the Palace you move you own supervisor und receive the corresponding mausoleum tile - this you lay out openly for ability and prestige points - and in the Armory you forge equipment.

After six rounds you score painted warriors in relation to their location, sets of different equipment cards, unused bonuses, game-end bonuses and sets of unused resources and win with most prestige.

Dilemma in selecting cards and selecting actions, a limited number of turns, varying strategies for acquisition of victory points - a dense, intense, challenging and thrilling „What do I do first with which card?” game to tear your hair and to enjoy!

Players: 2-4

Age:14+

Time:45+

Designer: Marco Legato, Francesco Testini

Artist: Davide Corsi

Price: ca. 45 Euro

Publisher: Matagot 2017

Web: www.matagot.com

Genre: Develop, collect

Users: With friends

Version: fr

Rules: en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very beautiful components

Intense dilemma game

Several strategies for victory points

(c) Image Newyn (BGG)

Compares to:

Development with limitation of turns and cards to use per turn

Other editions:

Pendragon Game Studio (it), Surfin ’Meeple (en)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0