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Mombasa
In Mombasa, players acquire shares of chartered companies based in Mombasa, Cape Town, Saint-Louis, and Cairo and spread their trading posts throughout the African continent in order to earn the most money.
What is Mombasa
In Mombasa, players acquire shares of chartered companies based in Mombasa, Cape Town, Saint-Louis, and Cairo and spread their trading posts throughout the African continent in order to earn the most money.
"As I expected, the East African Company's network of trading posts has spread far into the West. They were even able to expand into a couple of diamond mines. It seems reasonable to invest our recent yield here in Mombasa, rather than to continue our unrivalled commitment in Cape Town. After all, it can only be to our advantage to have other irons in the fire. And when the day of reckoning comes, it will show whether our hoarding of holdings and our intransigent eagerness are worth it..."
Mombasa is a tense Euro-style strategy game set in 19th century Africa in which players invest in four chartered companies. Using influence to help them expand across the continent improves the value of the players' shares in these companies. Players will also trade in bananas, coffee or cotton, work together with diamond merchants and ensure that the accounts are kept up to date. To make the most of this one will need to have the correct action cards (back) in hand at the same time, which needs excellent forward planning.
Mombasa features a unique, rotating-display hand-mechanism that drives game play: Players start with an identical hand, but acquire new and more powerful cards from the rotating display throughout the game. Each round players choose action cards from their hand, place them face down in the so-called action slot (beneath the player board), and then reveal them simultaneously to carry out the actions. At the end of the action phase, each card is moved to the so-called resting slot (above the player board). Cards in the resting slots are inactive and cannot be used until they are recovered - each round one can only return cards of one resting slot which is why it can make quite a difference in which action slots certain cards are placed.
Game details
- Players
- 2–4
- Age
- +12
- Duration
- 150 min
- Difficulty
- Heavy
- Type
- Board game
- Year
- 2015
- Mechanics
- Action Queue · Area Majority / Influence · Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
- Categories
- Economic · Post-Napoleonic
- Designer
- Alexander Pfister
- Publisher
- LudoSentinel · eggertspiele · Albi · Arclight Games
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Exp Cooked Books.
- Cartas enfundadas
Una delicia de juego... dura siete turnos. En cada turno, el jugador escoge jugar una serie de cartas, que le van a permitir hacer acciones (aumentar en un track, comprar cartas, explorar, o colocar trabajadores). En el juego hay cuatro "empresas" y a cada una de ellas corresponde un track. Cuando avanzas por ese track vas ganando "acciones" de dicha empresa. Con la acción de explorar, se van consiguiendo cosas y despejando una zona con "casitas" de dicha empresa, que van desvelando monedas, que al final de la partida serán el valor de cada acción conseguida de esa empresa (multiplicadores).
This game is a chef-d'oeuvre for several reasons. The major one is because this game combines different interesting mechanichs which make it a tough game: deck building, territory control, workers placement, economic investment, multiple paths of victory, strong player interaction, point salad and a fierce players rivalry. All this factors make this game great. Despite the ethical theme, all the mechanics are ingeniously perfect implemented. The immersion is highly tough, however it is highly satisfying brain burner. I strongly recommend if you like heavy euro and if you like get your brain b
Local-(239)
Euro muy interesante. Tiene esa interacción indirecta y el poder aprovecharse de lo que hagan los demás que te hace difícil elegir la estrategia a seguir.
vendido 47,5
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How many players is Mombasa for?
Mombasa plays with 2–4 players.
How long does a game take?
A game takes about 150 minutes.
What age is it suitable for?
It is recommended from age 12.
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