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Imperial Settlers Aztecs
The Glory of the Gods
The Aztecs add Religion and a certain risk element to the basic mechanisms of Imperial Settlers. The game features 110 cards - 60 Aztec cards, 10 Barbarians cards, 10 Egypt cards, 10 Japan cards, 10 Romans cards and 10 Atlantean cards - providing the gods for the various pantheons - as well as Blessings markers and Statue markers as well as a Faction board with a Faction marker. When you assemble your deck, you handle some of the cards like regular faction cards, and others as if they originated from one of the previously published expansions, those cards are marked accordingly. The rules come with instructions on how to construct an open deck and how to construct a tournament deck.
New features for the game are Blessings markers a new goods and orange for a card color. New mechanisms are: 1) Blessings in assorted colors - each faction can only hold one marker per color. The tri-colored blessings marker is generated by the Aztec faction board and an only be used by the Aztec player. You can use any of its three colors for a Prayer action, but only one color for an action! 2) Prayers - they are a new action, always linked to a game phase or a condition or an action; for an action, you pay the action cost. You can play a Prayer without using Blessing markers or with Blessings markers; if you use a Blessing marker or markers, they count as a card of that color and you draw no cards for the prayer and keep the marker(s).
Religion was an element that was missing in the imperial tools, Blessings and Prayers are clever mechanisms; fund and options become more varied and a tad more interesting - those Aztecs do really enrich the game!
Players: 1-4
Age: 10+
Time: 60+
Designer: Ignacy Trzewiczek
Artist: Roman Kucharski, Maria Pekina, Aga Jakimiec, Rafal Szyma
Price: ca. 33 Euro
Publisher: Portal Games 2016
Web: www.portalgames.pl
Genre: Development, Empire building
Users: With friends
Version: en
Rules: de en es it pl
In-game text: yes
Comments:
Religion as a new feature
Flexible tactics are necessary
Compares to:
All development games with an Empire topic, asymmetrical card games
Other editions:
Pegasus (de), Edge Entertainment (es), Asterion (it) Portal (pl)
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 2
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