Cranio Creations - Barrage - Board Game

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Some actions have a cost indicated in the action symbol. This cost must be paid when the Engineer is placed together with any extra fee for spaces with a red outline. You must have all the required Credits to be able to place your Engineer in a given space. Elevations cost 2, 3, or 4 gray Cement Mixers, built on top of your Dam Bases in the Plains, Hills, and Mountains, Place the required Engineers in an available action space of your choosing on the Management board, and immediately perform the action corresponding to that space. Turbine Stations: Place 1-3 Engineers to produce Energy. You choose a Conduit (owned by any player) to direct some

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Take the requested Engineers from your personal supply. If you don't have the amount of Engineers (or the additional Credits) in your supply required by the action space, you can't perform the corresponding action. Furthermore, you cannot place Engineers in an action space without performing the corresponding action. Cement Mixers you paid are placed on the top of your Construction Wheel, which is then rotated 60° (credits are paid

All of my games have been with 4 players. With fewer players, some of the actions are unavailable, but all of the board spaces are in play. It seems like the 4-player game would provide the greatest amount of interaction, as you can’t help but get in each other’s way. In theory, the 2 and 3 player games would let people play in their own sandbox more, although the temptation to try to take advantage of your opponents’ positions might be so great that the effects of this will be minimized. But my thinking is that the 4 player game might be best for folks who want a lot of interaction and 3 players might be better if you don’t want your plans disrupted as much. I can’t be sure, but the 2 player game might not provide the full Barrage experience. Finally, there’s also a solo game included, in which the player plays against one or more automas—I haven’t played that yet, but at least there’s a viable option for lovers of solitaire games.

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Water Management: Place 1-2 Engineers to place 1-2 Water on any Headstream(s), to be released during the Water Phase, or place 1 Water on any Headstream, which is then immediately released downstream. The player with the most points wins. Ties are broken according to the amount of Energy produced in The building structures are nice and chunky and each player has differently styled pieces. This is a good touch, although again, not really required. The two types of machinery are nicely molded, but are very small. This is necessary for them to fit on the production wheels, but most of my opponents disliked them (I thought they were fine). They come in three sizes, to show denominations of 1, 3, and 5 units, but the size differentials aren’t as clear as I’d prefer. Still, they’re playable. In the dystopic 1930s, the industrial revolution pushed the exploitation of fossil-based resources to the limit, and now the only thing powerful enough to quench the thirst for power of the massive machines and of the unstoppable engineering progress is the unlimited hydroelectric energy provided by the rivers.

Setup

Players play five rounds of this, building structures that uncovering symbols that will get them more items for income and even an extra player power. A late-game look at what Barrage can look like, with many extensions added to bases. Game Experience: You earn Credits based on the amount of Energy you produced during that round. If you produced 0 Energy, you gain 3 Credits and forfeit 3 VP. (Your score cannot fall below 0.) I’ll cut to the chase: Barrage is one of those games that is in the discussion for the best release of 2019. There are many that will continue to get that same talk that are a little more accessible such as Tiny Towns, Watergate, and Wingspan. Barrage is further up on the complexity scale compared to those. Probably the most significant actions are the ones which allow the players to generate energy. There are five pairs of these, with each pair providing a different bonus or penalty to the amount of energy produced (naturally, ones with the highest bonuses are chosen first). When a player chooses one of these, she selects one of her dams that has one or more water drops behind it and routes the drops through a co-located conduit to one of her powerhouses. The re-routed water drops then flow downhill until they are either stopped by a dam or exit the board. The conduit used doesn’t have to be owned by the active player—if it’s owned by an opponent, the active player must pay them some money for its use and the opponent also receives some VPs. Each conduit has a production value; these values range from 1 to 5. The amount of energy produced is equal to the number of drops moved through the conduit, multiplied by the conduit’s production value, modified by the action’s bonus or penalty, along with any other bonuses the player might have earned. Obviously, conduits with a high production value can yield much higher energy amounts, but they’re also much more expensive to build. The action boards are colorful, well organized, and easy to use. Because of them, the game takes up a lot of table space, but I don’t really see how they could have reduced this without making things less functional.

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from Dams to Powerhouses. Dams hold water equal to their Height (1, 2, or 3 water tokens). Flowing water that board. You take turns placing workers in various spaces on your player board or the Management board to perform a If you are the first player according to the request, you will score 15 VPs. If you are second, you will score 10 VPs. If you are third, you will score 5 VPs. Each player has four types of structures that they will be placing out on the mainboard, which has rivers that flow down from the Alps into basins. Bases act as the first level of the dam, which stops and gathers water in a basin. Elevations are added to Bases so they may hold more water. Conduits act as carriers to get water out of a basin to produce energy and the owning player or the opposition can pay to use the conduit. Powerhouses are where the water flows from the conduit and now produces energy. The actions on the Management board are divided into different sections for each category so that actions of the same type with similar effects are in the same area of the board.In addition, each player adds up their residual Credits + Excavators + Cement Mixers (not counting those