Cranio Creations - Barrage - Board Game

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The Water Drops moved to a Powerhouse thanks to the effect of a production action will then follow their natural course flowing through basins, rivers and Dams. When water arrives at a Dam it stops until the Dam is full; however if the Dam is already full the water simply overflows and continues its course towards the lower basins.

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Craig Massey (4 plays): I’m probably closer to really liking this game than just like. The production missteps Larry mentions are inexcusable and really take focus away from what is a very good game. The wheels are a hot mess that cause significant frustration with use. The water drops seem like someone went to a craft store, saw something cute, and thought it would be a good idea to use that in the game without any consideration of functionality. Fixes have been promised. If you used an opponent’s Conduit (the only time you can use an opponent’s piece), you must pay them 1 Credit The crux of the game’s actions are taken through worker placement. Players can gain new technology, resources, contracts, and money. They can use workers to turn their construction wheel (more on that later), add some new water to the river, and activate a powerhouse. All these are available using one to three workers (and sometimes three credits if desperate for a particular action). The remaining actions are all associated with spaces on the central player boards and when a space is taken, it can’t be chosen again until the next round. Spaces are arranged in pairs, with each pair of actions providing the same effect. The second space in each pair either requires more engineers, more money, or both. So even if an opponent chooses the action you want, you can still take it, but at a greater cost.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. Each Objective tile indicates a certain condition. Determine the players' classification according to that condition. The first player scores 15 Victory Points, the second player scores 10 VPs and the third player scores 5 VPs. There are five types of Technology tiles, one for building each of the four structure pieces, and one wild Technology tile that can be used to build any of the four structures. All Technology tiles work in the same way: they stay on the Construction Wheel until they return to the entry space and are available again.

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All the water drops on the headstream tiles flow down according to the normal rules, following rivers and basins. A new faction, the Netherlands, that uses Jan Leeghwater’s expertise in water management, adding even more water to your dams. tied up on their Construction Wheel) and divides the resulting sum by 5, earning that number of VP,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. Each player represents one of the four international companies who are gathering machinery, innovative patents and brilliant engineers to claim the best locations to collect and exploit the water of a contested Alpine region crossed by rivers.