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Mexica

Building Tenochtitlan

As a Price of Mexica – the name the Aztecs gave themselves – you build the legendary city of Tenochtitlan. You create city = calpulli boroughs bordered by canals, connect them bridges and fill them with temples.

Eight Calpulli tiles are randomly drawn and determine the size of the Calpullis. In your turn you can spend six action points, can spend them for actions and also make use of free actions, number and order of those actions are up to your choice. Action options are: Build a canal (1AP); found a Calpulli, you own Mexica must be in place and you place a Calpulli tile of the corresponding size in it, now the size cannot change anymore (0 AP); build or relocate a bridge (1 AP); set up a temple in a borough with your Mexica (1-4 AP); move your Mexica (1/5 AP); buy an action chip or use an action chip for an additional action.

Founding of a Calpulli earns you the corresponding prestige points instantly, other Mexicas in the borough score half the number of points. When all borough tiles were used and one player has set up nine temples, the game is scored: You add up the number of temple levels in each borough and score for most, second and third most levels = spiritual value of the borough. When someone has built all his temples and possible boroughs were founded, the spiritual value is again scored at the end of the round and you win with most points.

This edition is a fantastically pretty came with marvelous components, and it is still a good game, with familiar mechanisms and sequential play, thus you can not plan your turn beforehand. The game was published in 2002 as third game in the series after Tikal and Java.

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 90+

Designer: Wolfgang Kramer, Michael Kiesling 

Artist: Paul Mafayon, Christophe Swal

Price: on demand

Publisher: Supermeeple / Conclave 2015

Web: www.supermeeple.com

Genre: Placement, majorities

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en pt + fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

New edition

Marvelous components, stone temples

Played in turns, thus little pre-planning

Limited number was available from Abacusspiele

Compares to:

All games with majority scorings for buildings

Other editions:

Iello, France

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0