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Nippon
Japan during the Meiji period—a closed, isolated, and feudal country—decides to change into a modern industrialized state. The Empire sends emissaries to foreign nations, brings technicians and scholars from the west, builds a network of railroads, and achieves an outstandingly fast industrial revolution.
What is Nippon
Japan during the Meiji period—a closed, isolated, and feudal country—decides to change into a modern industrialized state. The Empire sends emissaries to foreign nations, brings technicians and scholars from the west, builds a network of railroads, and achieves an outstandingly fast industrial revolution.
The nation and Emperor count on the support of the Great Four, the big conglomerates that emerge with great power and massive control over the Japanese economy. They are called Zaibatsu, and their influence on the Meiji Emperor and importance on the fate of Japan is incredibly high.
Nippon is an Area Majority Game in which players control Zaibatsu and try to develop their web of power by investing in new industries, improving their technological knowledge, shipping goods to foreign countries or using them to satisfy local needs, and growing their influence and power as they oversee the era of rapid industrialization of Japan.
The foundations of the big Zaibatsu were the traditional silk workshops, but soon the conglomerates diversified their influence and power, building a complex structure of interconnected companies that made them giant players in the world’s new industrial era. Each player takes the reins of one of these big corporations and tries to develop it in order to grow and achieve power.
Game details
- Players
- 2–4
- Age
- +12
- Duration
- 120 min
- Difficulty
- Heavy
- Type
- Board game
- Year
- 2015
- Mechanics
- Area Majority / Influence · Variable Phase Order
- Categories
- Economic · Industry / Manufacturing
- Designer
- Nuno Bizarro Sentieiro · Paulo Soledade
- Publisher
- Asmodee · What's Your Game? · Ghenos Games · hobbity.eu
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Es un juego de retirar (en lugar de colocar) trabajadores. Hay un panel de acciones sobre los cuales, hay un pool de trabajadores de distintos colores (hasta seis). Cada panel contiene dos posibles acciones. En su turno un jugador sólo puede hacer una de dos cosas: O retirar un trabajador - que coloca en su tablero - y realizar una acción del panel, o consolidar, con lo que retira todos los trabajadores del tablero y digamos que "reinicia" su estado, cobrando dinero y carbón segun unos tracks. El juego está ambientado en el paso del japón feudal al japón industrializado. Los jugadores constru
Nippon has become one of the biggest surprises of a game and a Publisher which I didn’t expect it. It was the first game I tried from WhatYourGame publisher. At the beginning, I did not expect a lot from a game where there no weren’t a lot of components. What I find was a great surprised: an economic game of building a production “engine” to create and to sell goods and finally be the most successful big business conglomerates or the Zaibatsu, in a context of the industrial revolution, known as well as the Meiji Era or Restoration. This Zaibatsu builds factories in order to produce goods whic
La era industrial en Japón, bla bla bla o para quien no lo conozca, eurete duro a lo "Brass japonés" de WYG. Y dicho esto, la temática importa 3 pimientos. xD Esto... ¿Os gustan los euros con miga, de subir tracks de pasta, carbón, tecnología, producir cosas y cumplir contratos, o buscar venderlas el primero, con mayorias etc etc. con multiplicadores y ensalada de puntos? ¿Sí? Dicho esto pueden aparecer muchos juegos del palo. Pero éste lo borda de manera magistral y se le acerca a juegos top 10 de este palo económicos. La "novedad" de éste es que no colocas, si no que descolocas trabajadore
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How many players is Nippon for?
Nippon plays with 2–4 players.
How long does a game take?
A game takes about 120 minutes.
What age is it suitable for?
It is recommended from age 12.
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