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2010 Ranked #14,881

Irondale

Players place building cards beside existing structures, scoring from placement and pursuing master-plan goals. Every building grants abilities to its owner and neighbors, so an opponent’s construction can create opportunities too.

Card Game City Building Modular Board Hand Management

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

?+

Complexity

2.33/5

Rating

5.89

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Irondale is a Pure Card game from Small Box Games. In Irondale, players help to build new structures in the city of Irondale.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Modular Board

Build the play area from interchangeable sections that vary between games.
Tile Placement

Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
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Irondale is a Pure Card game from Small Box Games. In Irondale, players help to build new structures in the city of Irondale. In this mix of a tile laying and city building game, players build new structures next to prexisting structures. Each building scores points based on what has already been built and/or what it is built next to. Additionally, each building grants the builder, and anyone building next to it, special abilities. Each card represents one building belonging to one of four building types, in addition to having a master plan. Players score additional points by building structures according to a master plan.

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Category

2
Card Game City Building

Mechanism

3
Hand Management Modular Board Tile Placement

Family

2
Admin: Better Description Needed! Series: Pure Card Line (Small Box Games)

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Game and edition data

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
30 min
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
John Clowdus

Publishers

1
Small Box Games

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