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The Voyages of Marco Polo

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  1. 9 out of 10

    A tight dice placement medium euro that rewards skill and experience. The asymmetric powers give it a lot of flavor, but the dice and competition for spaces alleviate from a purely strategic play. It has a euro greatest hits vibe, but with a great execution. Some complain about the difficulty of travel, but if it was easy Marco Polo would not have become famous.

  2. 8 out of 10

    As many recent games, some mechanisms seem excesively fiddly, but gameplay is tight and once we finished I was thinking in what else could I have done. Looking forward to my next game...

  3. 8 out of 10

    В 1271 году, семнадцатилетний парень Марко Поло отправился в путешествие в Китай со своим отцом и старшим братом. Они проделали долгий и опасный путь, посетив Иерусалим и Месопотамию, пройдя весь Шелковый путь и в 1275 году добравшись до двора хана Кублая. Игра восстанавливает путешествие Марка Поло по легендарному Шелковому пути. У каждого игрока, для этого, имеются различные персонажи со своими особенностями и возможностями. Игра длится 5 раундов. У каждого игрока есть выбор из пяти различных действий. получить один из ресурсов (верблюды, шелк, бумага, золото). Первый игрок получает ресурсы бесплатно, остальные вынуждены платить за них. взять один ресурс на выбор и двух верблюдов заработать деньги выполнить заказы отправиться в путешествие. Все игроки начинают в Венеции и различными маршрутами должны добраться в Пекин. Остановившись в городе, игрок может открыть там базар В начале игры каждый игрок получает карточку с секретным заданием, где указано, какой город он должен достигнуть до конца игры. После пятого раунда идет подсчет очков. Учитывается, кто достиг Пекина, кто выполнил свой секретный маршрут и исполнил больше всех заказов. Эти очки прибавляются к очкам, которые игроки набирают по ходу игры.

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In 1271, 17-year-old Marco Polo started on a journey to China with his father and older brother. After a long and grueling journey that led through Jerusalem and Mesopotamia and over the "Silk Road", they reached the court of Kublai Khan in 1275.

In The Voyages of Marco Polo, players recreate this journey, with each player having a different character and special power in the game. The game is played over five rounds. Each round, the players roll their five personal dice and can perform one action each turn with them. The five main actions are shown on the bottom part of the board:

Get resources with 1-3 dice, depending on the value of the resource (camels, pepper, silk, gold). The first player for each resource gets them for free; the later ones have to pay according to the value shown on the dice.

Take one resource of your choice and two camels. Each player sets the minimum value for the future dice.

Earn money, with any one die netting you five money.

Purchase orders: The value of one die unlocks the orders up to that number (shown on the spaces) and allows you to buy one or two of those orders. Orders are refreshed and placed at the beginning of each round. To fulfill an order, players have to spend resources for victory points, other resources, camels, and more.

Travel: Two dice are placed to unlock the distance that can be traveled on the upper part of the board, that is, the map. Here, the traveler piece of each player starts at Venice and can decide between several routes eastward, all the way to Beijing. When a traveler stops at a city, they place a marker there, giving them access to a different additional action for the rest of the game.

After five rounds, the game ends with players receiving victory points for arriving in Beijing, fulfilling the most orders, and having reached the cities on secret city cards that each player gets at the start of the game; these points are added to the VPs gained during the game.

Auf den Spuren von Marco Polo should not be confused with Marco Polo Expedition, which had the same German title.

Ages

12+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

40m – 100m
Designer

Simone Luciani, Daniele Tascini
Mechanics

Contracts, Highest-Lowest Scoring, Income, Variable Setup, Worker Placement with Dice Workers, Dice Rolling, Point to Point Movement, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers
Theme

Dice, Economic, Travel, Medieval
Publisher

999 Games, Albi Polska, Crowd Games, Devir, Filosofia Éditions, Hans im Glück, Kaissa Chess & Games, Piatnik, Swan Panasia Co., Ltd., Z-Man Games, Inc., Albi, Arclight, Giochi Uniti, Korea Boardgames co., Ltd.
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