Portal Games 331603 Imperial Settlers, Multicoloured

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Additionally, there is a scoreboard, four faction tokens used to track each player’s progress along the scoring track, four faction boards (one per faction), a Round marker, and a start player token. And, then there are the variety of resource bits – wooden bits representing food (red), wood (brown), stone (grey), and workers (pink) and cardboard tokens representing gold coins, swords used for razing things, and shields used for defending things.

Imperial Settlers is a card game that lets players lead one of the four factions and build empires by placing buildings, then sending workers to those buildings to acquire new resources and abilities. Everyone’s empire is growing here, and while it’s rarely important in turn one, it’s going to become incredibly important in turn two and beyond.Before we talk about the fifth action, we have to address the lack of resource production as the reason why some players will love Empires of the North versus the base game: Empires of the North is so much tighter. The Expedition Board is there for a reason: resources feel much tighter in Empires of the North than in the base game. It is our goal to avoid this as much as possible going forward, but it is also our responsibility to address concerns as they arise.

This was an interesting way to make sure players still get some variety in their empires without being forced by the luck of the draw.

Common Action: the player may trade two workers to the general supply to receive either 1 food, 1 stone, 1 wood, or draw a card from either their Faction or the Common deck. Lookout phase: Each player draws 4 cards from their clan deck and players must spend a worker for each card they wish to keep. Your engine doesn’t have to be objectively good, it just has to be better than what everyone else has. During the game, players can gain Victory Points (VP) in various ways: from deals they make, from actions they take, and from Location features. When you don’t draw those cards—and, look, even the base game has this issue—you are going to be in for some games where you never draw the cards you need to be successful.