Cranio Creations - Barrage - Board Game

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The Management board is shared by all the players, meaning that players are in competition with one another to occupy the action spaces: the first player to place Engineers in an action space makes this space unavailable for all the other players for the entire round (except for the Bank). Drops 3, 4 and 5 start flowing. Drop 3 is immediately captured by the Mountains level 2 Dam, filling it. Drops 4 and 5 keep flowing. Then, Drop 4 is captured by the upper Hills Dam, filling it. Drop 5 overflows and gets captured by the lower level 2 Neutral Dam.

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from Dams to Powerhouses. Dams hold water equal to their Height (1, 2, or 3 water tokens). Flowing water that Cement Mixers you paid are placed on the top of your Construction Wheel, which is then rotated 60° (credits are paid Viktor (green) gets a reduced reward: he has built 3 Powerhouses so he scores 11 VPs (5 VPs for each Powerhouse minus 4 VPs for being one section behind). The player with the most points wins. Ties are broken according to the amount of Energy produced in board and flows downhill, either being held behind Dams in various basins or emptying into the sea at the bottom of the

I. Income and Headstreams

But, for me (and, I suspect, for most players), the best part of the design is the boardplay. The key design decision in the game is that when you generate energy, you reroute the water from its normal path. So each item that the players build changes the board situation, sometimes dramatically. This makes the game very challenging and wonderfully interactive. Look, I love the indirect interaction that is the hallmark of your standard Euro as much as the next guy. But I have to say, this return to the non-destructive, but still reasonably in-your-face boardplay that was much more prevalent in the German designs of the 90’s than it is today, is both refreshing and exhilarating. It raises this title to greatness. If you are using a Conduit belonging to another player, give that player 1 Credit for each Water Drop you move. That player will also score 1 Victory Point for each Water Drop.

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Add the resources (Excavators, Concrete Mixers, Credits) together. Score 1 Victory Point every 5 items of any type. Any resources still on the Construction Wheel are not counted. Advanced Technology tiles allow you to build structures in the same way as the basic technology tiles, but they have an additional special effect which is activated only when you use them. Each player receives every component in the color associated with their Company board and a Construction Wheel which must be placed next to their Company board as illustrated below. Income: Receive bonuses on your player board (you also earn these same bonuses at the time you build the structures). (Water is also placed on the Headstream tiles according the number shown on each tile (not in round 5).)

Components

Dams to 2 or 3), Powerhouses, which generate energy, and Conduits, which shunt water via color-coded pipelines This bonus is awarded only to players who have produced at least 1 Energy Unit. In case of a tie for the first position, sum up both bonuses (6 and 2 VPs) and split them evenly between all the players who tied, rounded up.