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2009 Ranked #2,244

Chronicle

Card-drafting civilization game where players collect historical figures, discoveries, and achievements across the ages. Sets and timing determine prestige, so every pick must add to a coherent chronicle before the best history is claimed.

Family Games Card Game Fantasy Action Retrieval Set Collection

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

1.96/5

Rating

6.82

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.1/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

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Box blurb translated from Japanese: An irregular trick taking game where various individual abilities of persons forming history are tangled together. Who will use their powers to adequately handle the events of the lands?

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Box blurb translated from Japanese: An irregular trick taking game where various individual abilities of persons forming history are tangled together. Who will use their powers to adequately handle the events of the lands? Who will leave their name behind in The Chronicle? This is the 2009 release from Kanai Factory. Recommended suggestions for beginners from the designer Seiji Kanai: Play with 3 or 4 players. 5 or 6 players make the game more difficult to control. Until you are familiar with all the cards effects, remove the following History cards from the game: "Dark age" (have evil cards), "Coronation" (use three next history cards) and "Meeting with a dragon" (use two previous history cards). Use the optional rule "several history cards" and draw 2 history cards per round. Each history card honour rewards is resolved independently.

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
3–5
Play time
30 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Seiji Kanai

Artists

2
Noboru Sugiura Chema Vicente

Publishers

1
Kanai Factory

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