Kingdom Builder

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Kingdom Builder
Game data
author Donald X. Vaccarino
graphic Oliver Schlemmer
publishing company Queen Games
lautapelit.fi
Publishing year 2011
Art Fantasy board game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration about 45 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Game of the Year 2012
German Games Award 2012: 7th place
International Gamers Award 2012: nominated

Kingdom Builder is a strategic board game by Donald X. Vaccarino , which was published in 2011 by Queen Games with illustrations by Oliver Schlemmer in a German, an English and an international version (English, French, Dutch, Spanish, German). A Finnish-Swedish version was released in 2012 by lautapelit.fi .

The game received the award Game of the Year in 2012 , is listed in 7th place at the German Games Prize 2012 and was nominated at the International Gamers Award 2012 in the category General Strategy - Multi-Player .

Game description

Kingdom Builder is a building game in which players take on the role of settlers who each create their own kingdom . The game plan can be composed variably. The aim of the game is to have the most gold (denotes the victory points here) at the end of the game, but the conditions for reaching this goal change with each game.

Game flow

preparation

Each player is dealt houses in his color, the Schedule of four rectangular (out of eight) parts is assembled: Each piece shows two identical local fields (only the fields harbor and Oracle are present only once), the corresponding with two location tiles occupied become. There is also a castle space on each part of the game board. The remaining fields are assigned to specific landscape areas. The landscape cards are shuffled and held ready as a face-down draw pile. Before the start of the game, three order cards are laid out: During the game, all players try to place their houses as profitably as possible according to the orders (for example, to build as many houses as possible in a horizontal row).

Lap schedule

In your turn, you draw the top landscape card and place three of your houses on adjacent, matching landscape spaces (only one house may be placed per space). Then it is the next player's turn. In further rounds, if possible, you must always add a chain of houses that you have already started.

Special fields

There are also two special fields : (i) If you build next to a castle , you get 3 victory points for each castle field on which there is at least one house of your own. (ii) If you build adjacent to a location tile , you receive a location tile on display (if still available): Location tiles can be used permanently in your own turns to carry out special actions (e.g. occupying an additional square). However, each tile acquired once may only be used once in each turn.

Playing

When a player has placed all houses, the score is scored: Whoever has scored the most points by using the common order cards and placing his houses on castle spaces is the winner.

Extensions

  • The expansion Die Nomaden , released in 2012, brings game material for a 5th player, 3 new Kingdom Builder cards, 4 new landscape quadrants and nomad tiles with special advantages that can only be used once in the entire game.
  • The mini expansion Caves with four cave tiles also appeared in 2012.
  • The Crossroads expansion, published in 2013, offers a further 4 landscape quadrants and 8 location tiles. Furthermore, warriors, covered wagons, ships and the construction of fortresses, roads and places of refuge are introduced into the game.
  • In 2016, Marshlands appeared as the third major expansion of the game. It contains 24 game pieces with 8 new skills and 12 overview cards for the edges of the game board. There are also four new quadrants with the land type Marshlands.
  • The fourth big expansion, Harvest , was released in 2017. Harvest expands the game with some new strategic possibilities and the farmland as a new type of terrain.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kingdom Builder: Back Cover (Multilingual Edition) in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)