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In the Great City of Rome, players are competing architects in the Great City of Rome working to layout the best buildings in the Great City of Rome in order to gain the favor of the Emperor of the Great City of Rome.  Each player’s initial building plan is modest – two starting cards along with five bucks and your emissary pawn. You will eventually be building a 4×4 grid of cards for the Great City of Rome, so make sure to reserve enough table space for your sprawl. Continue reading → I started reading about the Essen 2018 games back in August, and Valparaiso was one of the ones which I quickly focused on.  I have for me.   I also liked the fact that this one of the small number of strategy games that I was interested in which could handle up to five players… I dove into the rules as soon as they were posted, and I was ready for my first play in no time. In the game, players are working to be the best developer of  trade in the city of Valparaiso. The board shows the harbor of the city as well as multiple villages hidden in the offshore forests.  Market tiles are arranged around the board and achievement cards are lined up against the top edge of the board. Each player is given their own Repository board and a set of 8 identical action cards to start the game.  On this board are a number of slots to play cards into. There is also a warehouse and a cargo hold area on this board. Each player also gets to choose a starting set of 3 goods, but each player must choose a unique set and a meeple on the board in an unoccupied Many years ago the original Civilisation game was created by Francis Tresham and several clever ideas were introduced including a new trading system whereby players traded commodities to gain points which were exchanged for civilisation developments. The desire to gain more commodities of the same type drove the trading process. Included within some of the trades were calamities which affected the person receiving the card. This was part of the trading process and also the way in which you could affect a rival. I always thought that the