Attica (game)

Attica
Game data
author	Marcel-André Casasola Merkle
graphic	Manuel Casasola Merkle
publishing company	Hans im Glück , ; Rio Grande Games , ; 999 Games , ; Kaissa Games
Publishing year	2003
Art	Board game
Teammates	2 to 4
Duration	60 minutes
Age	from 10 years on
Awards
	Game of the Year 2004: Recommended list of ; German Games Prize 2004: 4th place ; International Gamers Award 2004: Multiplayer Finalist

Attika is a game by Marcel-André Casasola Merkle , published by Hans im Glück in 2003, with graphics by Manuel Casasola Merkle . In this game 2 to 4 players try to build one of the ancient Greek city-states Athens, Corinth, Sparta or Thebes or to connect 2 sanctuaries with each other. The name is derived from the Attica peninsula or historical landscape in central Greece with the capital Athens.

content

22 game board tiles, fields composed of 7 hexagons
4 sanctuaries
15 amphorae
4 storage boards
120 buildings, 30 per player
60 landscape cards, each 15 mountain, hill, forest and water
1 rules of the game (4 A4 pages)

Style of play

At the beginning, depending on the number of players, the playing area is made up of 4, 6 or 8 map pieces and 2, 3 or 4 sanctuaries are placed on opposite corners. Each player receives a discard board and his building set, which he sorts into 4 stacks and places the topmost building face up on his discard board. The drawn start player receives 4 landscape cards from the shuffled and face-down landscape card deck and each subsequent player receives one more. During his turn, a player can either pull two buildings from his face-down piles and either place them on the playing field, paying the building costs, or place them face up on his discard board on the corresponding field. Alternatively, he can place three of the open buildings on his board - also against payment of the building costs - on the playing field. If a player completely or partially waives his / her action options, he may draw landscape cards from the face-down pile, but these may only be used in the following rounds.

The following conditions apply to building:

Each building can be placed on any free space.
If it has no neighboring buildings of its own color, it forms a new settlement. An additional landscape card must be handed in for each existing settlement.
The raw materials that can be seen on the occupied field and the immediate neighboring fields may be deducted from the construction costs printed on the building.
Individual buildings are grouped together in rows and / or groups. If a building in a row is placed next to the building that precedes it in the row, it can be laid out for free.
If a player succeeds in laying out all the buildings in a group so that they are connected to one another, he receives an amphora. He can use this at any time during the game to carry out another action.

The game ends immediately when a player has either placed all of his 30 buildings on the field or connects two sanctuaries with his buildings. Since other players try to prevent this, you are sometimes forced to take detours. To do this, the playing area must be enlarged. This always happens when a player takes the last tile of one of his four building stacks. Then he takes one of the other face-down map tiles and places it anywhere. This should be done in a way that increases one's chances of joining two sanctuaries or setting up one's own ranks and / or groups.