Europemasters Edition 2015

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Welcome to EuropeMasters

On Saturday October the 10th conference room “Deutschland” was this year’s location where the Championships were being held. In total of 29 teams from all over Europe and Canada have competed at the 27th edition for the European title at the Open European Championship Boardgames.

With this press map we hope to give you a review and some background information. Hopefully you will be able to taste a little bit of this exciting event. And that you will pay us a visit next year!

Feel free to use the information provided with this map for your own publications. In case you need additional information or pictures, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Nice dice,

Ronald van Lent

Organisator EuropeMasters

: www.EuropeMasters.eu : [email protected]

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Table of Contents Welcome to EuropeMasters ...... 1 EuropeMasters edition 2015 ...... 3 The tournament ...... 4 History of European Championship Boardgaming ...... 8 16 years of EuropeMasters ...... 10 Gioco ...... 13 Hall of Fame ...... 14 Short list 2015...... 16 AquaSphere ...... 17 Kraftwagen ...... 18 Die Staufer ...... 19 Mangrovia ...... 20 Orléans ...... 21 Five Tribes ...... 22 Deus ...... 23 ZhanGuo ...... 24 Fresh Fish ...... 25 Sponsors ...... 26 EuropeMasters 2016 ...... 28

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The EuropeMasters is a championship for teams (4 players), though the best individual player is also rewarded. During the tournament 4 different games will be played, resulting in 4 rounds of play. At each round a single game title will be played by all players simultaneously.

Based on complex algorithm, a playing schedule will be generated; with result that each round a player will always compete at 3 new players, all of different nationalities. That is for the rounds 3 and 4. Based on feedback received from our participants we have dropped this restriction in the first two rounds. So it could happen that maximum two teams of the same nationality compete against each other. The result is that the EC champion always will have played against no. 2 making the competition even harder.

Per round a player can earn up to 5 points by winning the games at his table. The maximum team score is therefore 20 points per round. And a maximum 80 points throughout the whole tournament.

Besides a very friendly atmosphere, the gameplay is highly competitive, the final scoring is always very close and the winner is determined after finishing the last game.

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For this years’ event the following 4 tournament games have been selected from the nomination list:

 Deus – Pearl Games (Belgium)  ZhanGuo – What’s Your Game (Italy)  Orléans – dlp games (Germany)  Five Tribes – Days of Wonder (France)

The tournament

This year the tournament will be tougher than usual as we have selected which resulted in an increased time pressure. The start was with Five Tribes. And after 1 round of play the top 6 ranking was as follows:

Team Score Ranking Poslední Naděje (CZ) 17 1 Brettspielteam Hamburg (GER) 17 1 Bad Smurfs (IT) 17 1 Team Luxembourg (LU) 17 1 InTeam (GER) 14 5 Three Swedes and a Brazilian (SW) 14 5

After the first round 4 different nationalities take the lead. The top 6 consists out of 5 different nationalities (or 6 if we count the Brazilian).

Team Score Ranking Second game to be played was Orléans. Brettspielteam Hamburg (GER) 37 1 (1) Brettspielteam Hamburg strengthens its Poslední Naděje (CZ) 33 2 (1) head position. But teams Pajdulák Opava from the Czech Republic as well as Pajdulák Opava (CZ) 32 3 (11) reigning EC champions Das Team mit dem Steppe Nomads (FI) 31,5 4 (7) Paukenschlag also from Germany Das Team mit dem Paukenschlag 29 5 (11) Aslo Steppe Nomads from Finland makes (GER) a move forward. InTeam (GER) 29 5 (5)

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In the first 2 rounds the playing schedules allows that two teams of the same nationality can compete against each other. This is a new tournament setting introduced in 2014 on suggestion of the players. This way all teams will have played against each other without exception.

In round3 Deus was played.

Brettspielteam Hamburg is still in the Team Score Ranking lead. Where the difference between Brettspielteam Hamburg (GER) 52 1 (1) number 2 has increased from 4 points Poslední Naděje (CZ) 45,5 2 (2) to 6,5 points. Since last round. But Das Team mit dem Paukenschlag is jumping Das Team mit dem Paukenschlag 45,5 2 (5) th nd (GER) up from 5 place to the 2 place.

Brettvorleger (GER) 45 4 (8) With the entry of Brettvorleger on InTeam (GER) 45 4 (5) place 4, there are 4 German teams in the top 5. Steppe Nomads (FI) 43,5 6 (4)

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The last round of play was ZhanGuo.

Team Score Ranking Brettspielteam Hamburg (GER) 65 1 Steppe Nomads (FI) 59,5 2 Poslední Naděje (CZ) 58,5 3

Das Team mit dem Paukenschlag 57,5 4 (GER) InTeam (GER) 57 5

Pajdulák Opava (CZ) 57 6

The final round was really close for places 2 to 6 with only a few points difference. Brettspielteam Hamburg played a good last round and did not give away their lead position and is now . Based on a tie breaker team InTeam were able to claim their ranking on the 5th spot.

During gameplay as well as the prize giving ceremony was also visited by the publishers and authors (even from previous EC editions). Without their support there would not be an event like EuropeMasters!

Best individual player of 2015:

Team Name Player Name Score Ranking

InTeam (GER) Robert Oestreich 20 1

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Main picture: Brettspielteam Hamburg

Jan Ruess (16 points), Sebastian Moises (14 points), Dennis Johannsen (18 points), Mika Seidel (17 points)

Top right picture: Steppe Nomads

Oskari Vuorio (15,5 points), Johannes Rimpiläinen (11 points), Iridian Kiiskinen (18 points), Juuso Lähdekorpi (15 points)

Bottom right picture”: Poslední Naděje

Mario Babunek (15 points), Mailan Horák (9,5 points), Karel Kozmik (16 points), Ondřej Demel (18 points)

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History of European Championship Boardgaming

How it all began

The European Championship Boardgames has a long and rich history. It all started back in 1976 when KRONE, a German cigarette company, founded a games club. In 1977 the first championship for individual players was held in Berlin, followed in 1978 with a championship in Ostsee. This was the last championship for individuals.

Sven M. Kübler participated at the championships in Ostsee and encountered there the joy of tournament play. But he also noticed that there was a drawback with a tournament type for individuals in the sense that luck dominates the championships. A tournament with teams would eliminate the luck factor significantly.

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In the early years of SPIEL Sven was able to convince the organizer Friedhelm Merz that the SPIEL would be the ideal convention to organize the German championships. At that time the Spiel was held in the "Volkshochschule", a school building in Essen.

In 1983 the first German championship was held and 20 teams participated. Much was learned from this first tournament and the years after the chaos remained, but the planning improved and the tournament developed. In 1987 Sven decided to stop with the organization of the German championships. In 1988 the SPIEL did not hosted the German championships anymore, but instead Friedhelm Merz decided to have a European Championship organised. This tournament was founded under the name Intergame. In the first years Peter Janshoff set the base and on a later stage Peter Gehrmann, followed by Ferdinand de Cassan, continued the tournament.

In 1993 Friedhelm Merz requested Sven to take over the organization of Intergame. In the six years to come Intergame attracted each year 24 teams from different European countries to compete for the European title. In the meantime SPIEL has grown out to the largest game fair in Europe and was no longer located at the "Volkshochschule", but at the convention hall in Essen. Unfortunately this has led to an increase of costs to organize the championships. Also other tournaments were organized, consuming available budget of potential sponsors.

Therefore in 1998 the last Intergame was being held.

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Ronald van Lent participated with the “Flying Dutchmen” in the 1997 and 1998 edition of the Intergame. After the news that Intergame was not to be organized anymore, he decided to pick up the gauntlet. With the support of Sven a restart of the championships took place in 2000 at the Gen Con Benelux convention in the Netherlands. A new name is introduced: EuropeMasters. Though a new name was introduced, the tournament structure remained the same. And the restart was a big success and exceeded any expectations. Since 2001 EuropeMasters moved to the Spellenspektakel, the largest game fair in the Benelux. In 2003, after an absence of 4 years, the European Championship is finally returning to the Spiel in Essen.

With the qualification rounds and national championships throughout Europe taken into account, an estimated amount of more than 2000 players are involved and compete to take part at EuropeMasters where only one team can be the winner of the European title. The 2004 edition was a special edition, as it was the 5th anniversary of the EuropeMasters with 25 teams (100 players) participating from UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Suisse, Austria, Italy and Czech Republic. In 2009 we celebrated our 10th year anniversary with a total of 34 teams (136 players!), including players of Scandinavia: Finland and Sweden....and this is not the final goal, each year the number of players as nationalities participating is growing.

The edition of 2015 will consist of 32 teams participating from the following countries: UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Canada.

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16 years of EuropeMasters

Below an overview of all games played during 16 years of EuropeMasters. The overview contains many award winning games.

2000

 De Veilingmeesters van Amsterdam - Jumbo  Die Fürsten von Florenz - ALEA  La Cittá - Kosmos  Carolus Magnus - Winning Moves

2001

 Afrika - 999 Games  Odysseus - Jumbo  M - AbacusSpiele  Cartagena - Winning Moves

2002

 Medina - 999 Games  Mexica - Ravensburger  Emerald - AbacusSpiele  Titicaca - Cwali

2003

 Lara Croft - Identity Games  Eiszeit - ALEA  Netzwerk - Jumbo  Magna Grecia - Clementoni

2004

 Maharaja - Phalanx Games  Media Mogul - JKLM Games  Ticket to Ride - Days of Wonder  Hansa - AbacusSpiele  San Juan - ALEA

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2005

 Himalaya - Tilsit  Die Zepter von Zavandor - Lookout Games  Louis XIV - ALEA  Im Schatten des Kaisers - Hans im Glück

2006

 Baron - Tilsit  Caylus - Ystari Games  Augsburg 1520 - ALEA  Mesopotamia - Phalanx Games

2007

 Origo - Parker  Leonardo da Vinci - daVinci Games  Die Säulen der Erde - Kosmos  Yspahan - Ystari Games

2008

 League of Six - Czech Games Edition  Amyitis - Ystari Games  Im Jahr des Drachen - ALEA

 Neuland - Eggertspiele

2009

 Diamonds Club - Ravensburger  Small World - Days of Wonder  Funkenschlag - 2F Spiele  Chicago Express - Queen Games

2010

ropean Championship Boardgaming Championship ropean  Assyria - Ystari Games  Dungeon Lords - Czech Games Edition  Opera - The Game Master

History of Eu History  Vasco da Gama - What's Your Game?

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2011

 Troyes - Pearl Games  Olympos - Ystari Games  7 Wonders - Repos production  Navegador - PD Verlag

2012

 Village - Eggertspiele  Airlines Europe - AbacusSpiele  Last Will - Czech Games Edition  Vanuatu - Krok Nik Douil editions

2013

 Ginkgopolis - Pearl Games  Myrmes - Ystari Games  Die Paläste von Carrara - Hans im Glück  Keyflower - R&D Games/Huch!

2014

 Istanbul - Pegasus Spiele

 Florenza: the card game - Placentia Games  Concordia - PD Verlag  Glück Auf - Eggertspiele

2015

 Deus - Pearl Games  ZhanGuo - What’s Your Game?  Orléans - dlp games  Five Tribes - Days of Wonder

Our gratitude goes out to all our sponsors. Without their support the European

History of European Championship Boardgaming Championship of European History Championships would not have become the event it is right now.

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Gioco

Gioco is the mascot of EuropeMasters and is exclusively designed by the Dutch sculptor Jolanda Kleiss, ArtiSpirit.

The sculpture represents both a cheering as a victorious pawn. Though the model is asymmetric, it is properly balanced. The same counts for the skills needed of the players in our competition. Each game has its own gaming mechanism and players have to handle some time constraints. To be able to master this all, will make a player become victorious as European Champion.

As from 2014 onwards Panda Game Manufacturing, based in Canada, will sponsor the championships by producing the sculptures. PGM produces game(component)s with quality control as top focus. Panda GM was founded in early 2007 to provide tabletop game publishers with high quality overseas manufacturing services. Being avid gamers, Panda GM understand the attention to detail required to produce games that will satisfy both casual consumers and hard-core hobbyists.

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Hall of Fame

EC champions of 2015 team ”Brettspielteam Hamburg” from Germany.

Hall of Fame – EuropeMasters (2000 – 2014) 2015 GER Brettspielteam Hamburg 2014 GER Das Team mit dem Paukenschlag 2013 GER Brettspielteam Hamburg 2012 GER Das Team mit dem Paukenschlag 2011 CZ Třebotov 2010 FR Lille Old Squad Team (LOST) 2009 FIN Los Caballeros 2008 UK Shark Bait 2007 GER Epsilon kleiner Null 2006 UK Shark Bait 2005 GER ESCH Treff

2004 GER Die Magiër von Midgard 2003 GER Eiswürfel 2002 UK The Uninspired

2001 GER Emlandske Speelfroende of Fame Hall 2000 UK The Uninspired

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Prior EuropeMasters the European Championships were organised under the name Intergame. In 1998 the last Intergame was organised. Resulting that in 1999 no championships were held.

Hall of Fame – Intergame (1988 – 1998)

1998 UK The Good

1997 UK Mix & Max 1996 GER Emlandske Speelfroende 1995 GER Die Legionäre 1994 HOL De Bloedjes

1993 AUT The Hopeless

1992 AUT The Awful Green Things From Vienna 1991 AUT The Hopeless 1990 GER Die Kopiersklaven 1989 UK Bloodstock

1988 GER Köln-Bonner Team

Best individual player of 2015:

Team Name Player Name Score Ranking

InTeam (GER) Robert Oestreich 20 1

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Short list 2015

Each year the organisation searches for interesting and challenging games for the EuropeMasters tournament. This process starts already at the SPIEL one year prior the event and last until approx. April/May. In this period the organisation reviews new international releases. Some elements taken into account are the gaming mechanism, fun factor, level of luck (better the absence of it), suitability for tournament play and the overall playing time.

Of the games reviewed a first selection of 8-10 games is being made. These games form the nomination or short list. The nominees are play tested and analysed further where we try to get a mix of 4 tournament games, with significantly different gaming mechanisms and an overall playing time to fit in a single day’s tournament. This selection process is not based on the individual games, but the overall mix.

For this year event the tournament games to be played are:

 Deus – Pearl Games (Belgium)  ZhanGuo – What’s Your Game (Italy)  Orléans – dlp games (Germany)  Five Tribes – Days of Wonder (France)

Our other nominees are:

 AquaSphere – H@ll Games (Germany)  Die Staufer – Hans im Glück (Germany)  Mangrovia – Zoch (Germany)  Kraftwagen – ADC Blackfire Entertainment GmbH (Germany)  Fresh Fish – 2F Spiele (Germany)

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AquaSphere Publisher: H@ll Games – Hall 1/booth C104

Author: Stefan Feld

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News from the depths! The AquaSphere is a research facility stationed deep below the ocean’s surface, and your skilled team — consisting of an engineer, a scientist, reprogrammable bots and exploratory submarines — is trying to gather as much data as possible.The game board in AquaSphere has two main areas: A research station comprised of six sectors in which your scientist conducts experiments and a headquarters where your engineer supervises preparation of the bots.Through actions such as improving your lab, sending out submarines, collecting crystals, and examining octopuses, you expand the abilities of your team or gather knowledge points, which are necessary to win. Additional challenges result from the limited size of your lab, which is your personal stock; you can increase the size of your lab, which makes life easier, but this costs valuable time. AquaSphere is a challenging game of strategy and tactics with different paths to victory that requires planning in advance as well as skillful use of short- term opportunities.

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2014 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee

2014 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee

2014 Meeples' Choice Nominee

2015 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee

2015 Deutscher Spielepreis Nominee

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Kraftwagen Publisher: ADC Blackfire Entertainment – Hall 2/booth D139

Author: Matthias Kramer

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In 1888, Bertha Benz, wife of car pioneer Carl Benz, undertook the first long-distance (relatively speaking) overland drive in an automobile from Mannheim to Pforzheim in Germany. On her way, her car ran out of gasoline, so she had to get the correct chemicals to keep going. Thus, the city drugstore of Wiesloch became the world’s first gas station.Very quickly, the automobile — the “Kraftwagen” — became a common means of transportation, and shortly thereafter the first Grand-Prix races were conducted at the Nürburgring and the AVUS.Only forty years later, Germany possessed a dense road network. The combustion engine had triumphed over electric and steam drives, and cars were produced on the assembly belt. Manufacturers were also even producing less expensive cars for wider sections of the people.Kraftwagen transfers players to the time when cars came to maturity in Germany and Europe.

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Die Staufer Publisher: Hans im Glück Verlag – Hall 3/booth B113

Authors: Andreas Steding

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In The Staufer Dynasty, the players are nobles in the 12th century, accompanying Henry VI on his tour of the areas of Europe brought under control by the Staufer family, an area that included much of modern day Germany, went from the Baltic Sea in the North to Sicily in South. You’re eager to improve your own lot in the land by placing envoys and nobles in positions of power in the six regions represented in this game. The game lasts five rounds with each player having three actions per round. Players take action in order of their family members on the action board from top to bottom, and on a turn you either take a supply action (moving to one side of the action board) or a move/deploy action (moving to the other side).

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Mangrovia Publisher: Zoch – Hall 3/booth J108

Author: Eilif Svensson

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In Mangrovia, a game with a Caribbean mangrove setting, a clever role selection mechanism allows the players to choose two different bonuses/actions as well as the turn order in which they want these actions to be carried out — all by placing just one marker. Victory is achievable through a number of viable options, which guarantees high re-playability.The game is a fight over acquiring the best locations for your huts in this appealing and unspoiled landscape. If you manage to do so, you will become the rightful successor of the old chief and win the game. You gain Chief points by having the most huts (and the secondmost huts) along each of the eight divine paths monitored by the statues of Gods. Additional Chief points are earned by controlling sacred locations, by collecting amulets, and simply by building huts at lucrative spaces.

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Orléans Publisher: dlp games – Hall 1/booth C114

Author: Reiner Stockhausen

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During the medieval goings-on around Orléans, you must assemble a following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, etc. to gain supremacy through trade, construction and science in medieval France.In the city of Orléans and the area of the Loire, you can take trade trips to other cities to acquire coveted goods and build trading posts. You need followers and their abilities to expand your dominance by putting them to work as traders, builders, and scientists. Knights expand your scope of action and secure your mercantile expeditions. Craftsmen build trading stations and tools to facilitate work. Scholars make progress in science, and last but not least it cannot hurt to get active in monasteries since with monks on your side you are much less likely to fall prey to fate.In Orléans, you will always want to take more actions than possible, and there are many paths to victory. The challenge is to combine all elements as best as possible with regard to your strategy.

Awards:

2014 Golden Geek Best Innovative Board Game Nominee

2014 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee

2014 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee

2014 Meeples' Choice Nominee

2015 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Finalist

2015 Kennerspiel des Jahres Nominee

2015 Vienna Games Academy - Spiel der Spiele Hit für Experten

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Five Tribes Publisher: Days of Wonder – Hall 3/booth B107

Authors: Bruno Cathala

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Crossing into the Land of 1001 Nights, your caravan arrives at the fabled Sultanate of Naqala. The old sultan just died and control of Naqala is up for grabs! The oracles foretold of strangers who would maneuver the Five Tribes to gain influence over the legendary city-state. Will you fulfill the prophecy? Invoke the old Djinns and move the Tribes into position at the right time, and the Sultanate may become yours!Designed by Bruno Cathala, Five Tribes builds on a long tradition of German-style games that feature wooden meeples. Here, in a unique twist on the now-standard “worker placement” genre, the game begins with the meeples already in place – and players must cleverly maneuver them over the villages, markets, oases, and sacred places tiles that make up Naqala. How, when, and where you dis-place these Five Tribes of Assassins, Elders, Builders, Merchants, and Viziers determine your victory or failure.

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2014 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork & Presentation Nominee

2014 Golden Geek Best Innovative Board Game Nominee

2014 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Winner

2014 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee

2014 Meeples' Choice Nominee

2014 Tric Trac d'Or

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Deus Publisher: Pearl Games – Hall 1/booth C136

Author: Sébastien Dujardin

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In Deus, players work to develop their own civilizations in a shared environment. Each player starts the game with five building cards, and on a turn a player either uses one of these cards to construct a building or discard one or more cards to make an offering to a god. Cards come in six colors: red for military, green for resource production, blue for trade, brown for scoring, purple for temples, and yellow for a variety of effects.When you construct a building, you build it in the appropriate location on the modular game board — which is sized based on the number of players with the hexagonal tiles composed of seven landscape “circles” — then you place the card in your personal tableau in the appropriate stack of colored cards and activate the power of all of those cards already in your tableau, starting with the card at the bottom of the stack. When you make an offering, you discard cards, then receive the help of a god associated with one of the cards that you discarded, with the number of cards determining the strength of the associated action. You then refill your hand to five cards. The game ends either when all the barbarian villages on the game board have been surrounded and attacked or when all the temples have been constructed. Whoever has the most points wins.

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2014 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee

2014 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee

2014 Meeples' Choice Nominee

2015 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee

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ZhanGuo Publisher: What’s Your Game– Hall 1/booth C108

Authors: Marco Canetta & Stefania Niccolini

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In ZhanGuo, you are the emperor’s emissaries, and you have been assigned the challenging task of contributing to the process of unifying the empire, helping to build the wall, and all infrastructures needed. During the five rounds of the game, you must make the best of the few cards you get each round. You can play each card either on your own player board to increase your personal power in the empire, or on the game board to recruit manpower, construct buildings wanted by the emperor, call reinforcements from Qin, and move the armies from kingdom to kingdom.Each player has to choose the best time and best way to play his cards in order to earn the emperor’s favors. Careful, though, because trying to get too much power, or exploiting the workers for personal gain could increase dissatisfaction among the populace, and consequently increase the risk of uprisings in the newly added kingdoms. Whoever is able to make the greatest contribution to the emperor’s cause, while at the same time keeping the citizens placid, will be the winner.

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2014 Meeples' Choice Nominee

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Fresh Fish Publisher: Pegasus Spiele – Hall 3/booth L107

Author: Friedemann Friese

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It’s time for the next market day! As a rising trader, you are trying to get the best spaces for your market stalls. Only the trader with the freshest goods will get the most customers. In Fresh Fish you try to build your market stalls as close as possible to the matching delivery trucks on a huge market square. A delivery of goods directly from the delivery truck into the market stall is not allowed; at least one path space must lie between them. Unfortunately the competition between the traders is quite intense, so you will block each other from the shortest paths with your market stalls. Neutral flea market tables will get in the way, too. To secure the prime spaces for your market stalls, you must buy the stall tiles cheaply at an auction — but if you bid too little and lose the auctions you may later get a space much further away. At the end of the game you add all the paths between your market stalls and the delivery trucks, then subtract the saved coins from this sum. The player with the lowest value wins as he offers the freshest goods to his customers!

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