Santiago de Cuba — board game details

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What is Santiago de Cuba

Welcome to Santiago, the second largest city in Cuba, home of legendary rum and birthplace of the revolution! The chaotic streets hum with the sounds of bustling crowds and busy commerce. Cargo ships constantly arrive and depart from the port. Demand is continuous, if unpredictable, for a supply of local products such as exotic fruits, sugar, rum, tobacco, and cigars.

In Santiago de Cuba, your business card says "broker", but in reality you're a shady wheeler-dealer who arranges deals with the locals and with corruptible officials to move goods and meet the demand of those ever-present cargo ships – and your ability to procure these goods is only as reliable as your "connections".

At the start of the game, nine locals – the Cubans – are randomly arranged on a path around Santiago, with the port being the tenth location on the circuit. Each Cuban has a different ability: e.g., give a player two tobacco, give a player a good of his choice, force opponents to give you something, give money or victory points (VPs), and seize a building or allow a player to use a previously seized building. What are these buildings? At the start of the game, twelve buildings are randomly placed on the game board in four color-coded groups (white, yellow, etc.) of three. As with the Cubans, these buildings give players a special ability when used: convert tobacco to cigars, change VPs to money or vica versa, increase the value of goods delivered to the ship, render a Cuban inactive for the next round, and so on.

Players will deliver goods to seven ships throughout the course of the game. The demand for each ship is determined via a die roll; the active player rolls five dice – one for each type of good – then chooses four of the values rolled to represent demand for goods of the same color as the die.

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Game details

Players: 2–4
Age: +10
Duration: 75 min
Difficulty: Medium
Type: Board game
Year: 2011
Mechanics: Commodity Speculation · Dice Rolling · Memory
Categories: Economic
Designer: Michael Rieneck
Publisher: eggertspiele · Eagle-Gryphon Games · Filosofia Éditions · Hobby World

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Sentencia_JG8.5/10

2-4 J. (3 mejor). (9-II-2022 - del Cambiajuegos Post Reyes 2022 a cambio del Offboard y el Rolit). Eurogame sencillo que sin embargo presenta una estrategia delicada para poder aprovechar al máximo el rendimiento de los embarques y que añade acciones de puteo muy satisfactorias.

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eugeniosarcino6/10

Esp) Buen Euro para iniciar a gente al mundillo. Mecánicas de juego muy novedosas, muchísima re jugabilidad y bastante interacción entre los jugadores. Cómo siempre, el arte de Michael Menzel es ESPECTACULAR y la temática del juego está bastante bien implantada.

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David_Trovador7.8/10

"Versión" reducida del Cuba, comparte misma estética pero mecánicas distintas, es más corto que el Cuba y más apto en general para menos jugones. El Cuba en si, es mejor juego, más largo pero un juegazo.

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