Coloma (Gamefound – The Mother Lode Pledge)

Name: Coloma (Gamefound - The Mother Lode Pledge)
SKU: 17017
Price: 143.00 EUR
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60m - 90m

1 - 5 Players

Ages 13+

Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.

Hand Management

The simultaneous action selection mechanic lets players secretly choose their actions. After they are revealed, the actions resolve following the rule-set of the game.

Simultaneous Action Selection

Variable Phase Order implies that turns may not be played the same way as before and/or after.

Variable Phase Order

Variable Player Powers is a mechanic that grants different abilities and/or paths to victory to the players.

Variable Player Powers

This mechanism requires players to select individual actions from a set of actions available to all players. Players generally select actions one-at-a-time and in turn order. There is usually(*) a limit on the number of times a single action may be taken. Actions are commonly selected by the placement of game pieces or tokens on the selected actions. Each player usually has a limited number of pieces with which to participate in the process.

Worker Placement

American West

Contents - Description

This product consists of:

1 x Coloma Standard edition

1 x Coloma Deluxe upgrade pack

1 x Coloma New Prospects expansion

1 x A Fistful of Meeples

1 x A Fistful of Meeples – A Few Meeples More expansion

1 x Coloma Big Box

1 x Promo Cards pack

About Coloma Deluxe

Coloma: Deluxe Edition includes content not found in the retail edition. In addition to the base game components and stretch goals, this Kickstarter EXCLUSIVE version contains:

— 40 Poker Chips
— 30 custom Gold Nuggets
— 5 custom Score Markers
— 1 custom Round Marker
— 1 Metal First Player Marker
— 6 new Characters, each with a unique ability not found on characters from the base game, including:

Robber – You may spend 1 Wagon action (forgoing its usual movement Ability) to gain 3 Gold Nuggets from the Gold Cart (not the Gold Supply on the board!).

Homesteader – You may spend 1 Tent to build a Town Building card from your hand, paying the Saw cost on the card.

Renegade – Each time you add a Dude to your Graveyard, draw 3 cards.

Range Rider – Each time your Wagon moves over (or stops on) a vacant Horseshoe space on the Frontier Map, draw 1 card.

Maverick – Discard 1 card to gain either 1 Buck or 1 Dude.

Vigilante – Discard 1 used Barrel to place Dudes according to the usual rules.

[N.B. The custom components in the deluxe edition replace the standard components from the retail edition.]

Setting:
Coloma is the town where an unexpected event happened that shaped history of the Western Frontier. In the winter of 1848 a man building a sawmill on the South Fork of the American River spotted some bright nuggets in the tailrace waters below. Sure enough, it was gold! Though he tried to keep his discovery a secret, word spread quickly and it triggered the California Gold Rush of ‘49.

Thousands of people arrived from far and wide, making Coloma one of the fastest growing boomtowns in the country. Claims were staked, camps and makeshift homes were built, and hotels and saloons sprung up almost overnight. Everyone wanted their cut of the land’s wealth. For many it was Coloma or Bust!

In the game of Coloma, you are a pioneer who has recently travelled out West to strike it rich and make a name for yourself. You will prospect for gold and use your windfalls to recruit workers, rustle up horses, and establish businesses. You will also get opportunities to explore the surrounding riverways and frontier lands. But alas! You are not alone—every other pioneer seems to have gotten the same idea! Therefore, it will take extra cunning tactics on your part to not go Bust with the rest of them…

Overview of Play:
At the beginning of each chapter, you and the other players will simultaneously select an action to perform on the board. Once your selections are revealed, you must check if a majority of players chose the same action. If so, it is a Bust—which disables the Boom bonus that would be included otherwise. Then the players take turns performing actions, such as gaining resources, moving wagons on the map, building bridges and businesses, and placing camps and gunmen. After that, a section of the board is rotated—slightly changing the layout of the actions for the upcoming chapter.

When the rotating section hits high noon, the round ends with a bang: a shootout against an ever-growing number of outlaws! If you and the other players can outnumber the outlaws with your combined gunmen, you will get your fair share of the rewards. But if not, the rewards drop, and some of the gunmen will go to the graveyard… The game ends after the third shootout, and the player with the most points wins!

Coloma is a fast moving game with many paths to victory. It offers unique twists on simultaneous action selection, resource management, and engine-building. The town cards in your tableau allow you to play more efficiently, gain extra actions, and bend the rules to your advantage. With these cards and the bridge tiles (which add points based on what you achieve), you can create the perfect combination for your strategy and play style.

— description from the publisher

About New Prospects Expansion:

In Coloma: New Prospects, the game becomes deeper and wider, with heavier mechanisms, more sophisticated engine-building, and added paths to victory. It also flips the script on the Boom/Bust system—making it so players want different outcomes depending on what’s at stake.

Base-game Coloma is the snappy introduction; with the New Prospects expansion, it is the full experience—a true gamer’s game.

Player Board Extensions and Waterfall Tiles
Each player board is now extended to include a network of wilderness trails to explore. Each time you Bust, you may advance one space. To trailblaze a safe path loaded with valuable bonuses, you can add Waterfall tiles (which replace the Rivers from the core game); otherwise, you may face a series of dangers along the way—and possibly lose some Dudes…

All-New Decks of Cards
Each player gets a completely new deck of Town cards to replace the ones from the core game. These cards offer a variety of advanced engine-building mechanisms, such as effects that get better each time you Bust, and cards you may place Dudes on for powerful, one-per-round actions.

New Rotating Barker Tile
The rotating magnetic Barker tile is replaced with a new one that offers more ways to gain Barrels from the Outlaws. It also brings Buster into the multiplayer game, where he moves from Site to Site, making it risky to go to the same place as him with your Pioneer—unless, of course, you want to Bust…

The expansion features all of these and more!

—Description from the publisher

Additional information

Ages	13+
Players	Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players, 6 Players
Play Time	60m – 90m
Designer	Jonny Pac
Mechanics	End Game Bonuses, Rondel, Solo / Solitaire Game, Hand Management, Simultaneous Action Selection, Variable Phase Order, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement
Theme	American West, City Building
Publisher	Final Frontier Games

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Ratings

7.7

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8 out of 10
GamingCoupleGA
Production is quite good. Chips are heavy, Gold and screen printed components are nice, and let's not forget the magnetic wheel on the board that works flawlessly and as advertised. There are many ways to score points but you will need to do some of most actions and of course getting to do more of them than your opponent will help you to prevail. Building cards(buildings) that work with the more focused parts of your strategy accomplish this and playing the action wheel competently does too. There is a lot going on but it isn't very complex or hard to explain/teach. Handles high counts well as there are parts of the game that are done simultaneously.
10 out of 10
1 Oak
This has quickly become one of our favorite family games. It has a little bit of everything while staying simple enough for everyone to enjoy it. Lots of ways to play and win.
8 out of 10
beachgirlpcola
Kickstarter deluxe. *beautiful production, table presence *very useful insert. *Fairly straight forward worker placement/ engine building. Midweight, * Thematic Cons: Could get stale without the extra modules that were included. Also suggest: Gugong, Pillars of the Earth, Stone Age, Viticulture

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