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Thus, novice movement is an important part of a round: Only if you're in the right place at the right time, you'll gain the deciding influence points. You'll have to build new shrines, work at the temple, and participate in the Priestess' divine services. But don't forget to recruit additional novices or win the favor of the local Priests; these are vital means to prepare and combine the diverse actions.","brand":"Tasty Minstrel Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36679198408862,"sku":"9781938146411","price":105.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0440\/6493\/1998\/files\/pic2538939_1.png?v=1706146150"},{"product_id":"gentes","title":"Gentes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGentes\u003c\/em\u003e is an interesting civilization game with an innovative timing mechanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- split --\u003eGentes is an interesting civilization game with an innovative timing mechanism.\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gentes\" is the Latin plural word for greater groups of human beings (e.g., tribes, nations, people; singular: \"gens\"). In this game, players take the role of an ancient people who are attempting to develop by building monuments and colonizing or founding new cities in the Mediterranean sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe game is played in six rounds, each consisting of two phases: action phase, and tidying up. There are three eras rounds 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 with new monument cards entering the game at the beginning of rounds 1, 3 and 5. Each player has a personal player mat with a time track for action markers and sand timer markers. In the action phase of a round, the players take their turns in clockwise order, conducting one action per turn. Each action requires an action marker from the main board that is placed on the time track. Depending on the information on the action marker, you have to also pay some money or take sand timers that are placed on the time track. When you have no free spaces on your time track, you must pass for the remainder of the round. Therefore, the number of actions per player in a single round may vary significantly if, for example, you choose double sand timers instead of two single ones or take action markers that require more money but fewer sand timers. Single sand timers are dropped in the tidying up phase, while double sand timers are flipped to become single sand timer markers and stay for another round. The actions are:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuy new cards from the common display\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuild monuments (playing cards from your hand to your personal display for victory points and new options)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrain\/Educate your people\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuild\/found cities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTake money\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo play a card, you must meet the requirements printed on that card, such as having specific persons on your personal board (e.g., two priests and four soldiers). These requirements are why training  i.e., getting specific people is important, but that is not that easy because there are six different types of people three on the left and three on the right side of your personal player board and you have only six spaces in total for the two types in the same line. If you have three merchants, for example, you move your marker for counting merchants three spaces toward the side of the soldiers and thus you have only three spaces left for soldiers. By educating a fourth soldier and moving your soldier marker forward to its fourth space, you automatically lose one merchant because that marker is pushed back to its second space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is crucial to generate additional actions by using the specific functions of monuments in your display and cities you have built. Cities are expensive, but they create benefits at the end of each round or provide new options for taking an action without acquiring an action marker, gaining only a sand timer marker instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTry to have a steady income to avoid wasting actions to take money. Pay attention to the display of common cards, which is new in every single game, because the monument cards are shuffled randomly within the decks of eras I, II and III. Collect identical achievement symbols on the cards to benefit from the increasing victory points for a series of symbols. 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But in the most recent five year period, the conflicts escalated rapidly, and the world order began to come apart€”leaders became scared and trigger fingers twitchy. No one knows who pressed the button first, and in the harsh realities of the world that followed, no one cared. What mattered was surviving and, if possible, rebuilding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach turn, players will draft and simultaneously play a card from their hand (\"pack\") to indicate their action for the turn. This may be moving citizens or airships to explore or expand around the modular board, building structures, researching technology, initiating conflict, producing or gathering resources, and abating radiation. All of these things can earn you points in different ways. If you cannot store resources, they are left on the ground and are available for anyone present to use. 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Only fully-loaded boats will launch, so assign your voyagers carefully. Explorers will scout out the islands, unlocking their mysteries. Miners will collect ore, and colonists will cultivate farms and reap the benefits that the islands have to offer. Watch out for your opponents’ warriors, who can replace your voyagers and take over their jobs!As new islands appear out of the mist, send your voyagers in search of wealth and adventure! In Embark, you will load various boats heading to these new, uninhabited islands in order to explore, colonize, and mine their riches. Only fully-loaded boats will launch, so assign your voyagers carefully. Explorers will scout out the islands, unlocking their mysteries. Miners will collect ore, and colonists will cultivate farms and reap the benefits that the islands have to offer. Watch out for your opponents’ warriors, who can replace your voyagers and take over their jobs!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmbark is a game for 2-5 players, designed by Philip duBarry, and developed by Seth Jaffee. It lasts about 15 minutes per player, and could be described as a light-to-medium weight game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Embark, you and your friends simultaneously assign your voyagers to boats, then take turns assigning them jobs by placing them into specific berths in the boats. When a boat is full, it launches, carrying your voyagers to one of the islands in play, where your voyagers will start to perform the jobs to which they were assigned:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplorers explore the island, scoring 1 point per round, and increasing an exploration bonus for the island.\u003cbr\u003eMiners collect ore, which will score an end game bonus.\u003cbr\u003eColonists build farms worth a chunk of points. 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According to the turn order and movement limits of their cards, players move their Airships, then take an Action; Actions include Building Depots, Upgrading your Airship or Train, Shipping Goods by rail, and Soliciting Funds from the bank. When all players have acted, the second planned cards are revealed, and so on through the four planned cards until all players have finished carrying out their plans for the round. All the while, players must keep aware of the rising values of the different types of Goods and try to get the most-valuable Goods from the specialized factories that produce them to the cities that want them. 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