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City of Iron: Second Edition

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  1. 7.5 out of 10

    Epic experience, really. I love the clicking gears of this game and how it really pulls you along even when you're struggling to take it all in. The game is really tight, but it still allows you to play from the gut (somewhat), which I love, and the theme really draws me in for more. The funny thing is though, that I only have one play of this, so more data is required, but it makes a great first impression. A bit longer and heaver than what I usually dig, but it is such a great "hybrid" style game, something that I really love right now.

  2. 7 out of 10

    Positives: Superb art, solid mechanics, good choices for actions, ideal duration for a medium strategy euro, almost asymmetrical factions. Negatives: The rulebook belongs to the shredder. It's unacceptable for a game that easy, wasting hours searching the web for answers that should have been included in the rulebook. Also after so many years there are no official answers to many questions here. Nor an official f.a.q. The iconography is confusing when it comes to income and scoring. Some components are of poor quality. All in all I ended up enjoying my first play and this is why I give it a 7. Otherwise this game would be an easy 8.5 for me.

  3. 7.5 out of 10

    Ryan Lauket's first major board game and it shows. The art is fantastic, the mechanics solid but unremarkable. The game is good but lacks Ryan's unique touch that would crop up in later games.

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In City of Iron, 2-4 players compete to build up a small nation in a world of machines, magic, and money. Become the leader of one of four rival nations: the industrious humans, the toad engineers, the scholarly Cresarians, or the clever hogmen. Produce goods like machine parts and bottled demons to gain wealth, or research steam-age technology and recruit mercenaries to control the continent. If you want to establish new cities, you’ll build schooners or airships to reach faraway lands and flying islands. Your cities have limited capacity, so you’ll have to decide what to keep and what to demolish when building advanced structures. The future of a nation is in your hands. Build unbreakable foundations for an empire or disappear into the dusty pages of history.

Differences from the first edition:

The expert cards have some new iconography and have been rebalanced
The expansion town card deck is gone
The auction for player order has been simplified
The pay track for going later in the turn is gone
A bonus coin replaced the pirates
The timing of scoring rounds has been changed
Players now have different end-game scoring goals depending on their contract cards and regions, rather than everyone competing for the same set of end-game bonuses

Ages

13+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

120m – 120m
Designer

Ryan Laukat
Mechanics

Area Majority / Influence, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Hand Management
Theme

Card Game, City Building, Civilization, Economic, Fantasy
Publisher

Red Raven Games
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