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Tanto Monta: The Rise Of Ferdinand And Isabella

Prequel to "Here I Stand", Ed Beache's famed game published by GMT GAMES. It is a game for 4 players (Muslim, French, Portuguese and Spanish) covering the reign of the Catholic Monarchs and the voyages of the Age of Discovery. This is a CDG where each player has to reach 45VP to...

Players

?-?

Time

240-360

Age

14+

Weight

4

Rating

9.08

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Moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth, high frequency of interaction, and low emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

Moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth, high frequency of interaction, and low emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

Tanto Monta: The Rise of Ferdinand and Isabella has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, the presence of expansions, deep strategic possibilities, and good scalability. The game offers different experiences each time it is played and allows players to improve their strategy over time. The player interaction score is average, and the game is relatively easy to learn with moderate depth.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Tanto Monta: The Rise of Ferdinand and Isabella is 7, indicating a game that relies more on player decisions and strategy than on luck. While there is a notable impact of random elements on the game outcome, players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game strikes a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with player strategy and decisions primarily determining the game outcome and luck playing a minor role.

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Prequel to "Here I Stand", Ed Beache's famed game published by GMT GAMES. It is a game for 4 players (Muslim, French, Portuguese and Spanish) covering the reign of the Catholic Monarchs and the voyages of the Age of Discovery. This is a CDG where each player has to reach 45VP to win in the course of 7 maximum turns. Players play cards for their event or to perform actions from a list of available options for each power and at a specific cost for each action. VPs are earned either by military objectives, discoveries of new zones, trade, royal weddings or certain events. In each turn the 4 players alternate playing cards and so on until the end of the turn. The combats are resolved by means of dice rolls with possible support of combat cards and taking into account the type of participating unit. —description from the designer Precuela de "Here I Stand", el afamado juego de Ed Beach publicado por GMT GAMES. Es un juego para 4 jugadores (musulmán, francés, portugués y español) que abarca el periodo del reinado de los Reyes Católicos y la era de los viajes de descubrimientos. Se trata de un CDG en el que cada jugador tiene que conseguir 45 PV para ganar en un máximo de siete turnos. Los jugadores juegan cartas como evento o como puntos para realizar acciones del listado de las disponibles para cada potencia, con un coste específico para cada acción. Los PV se obtienen mediante objetivos militares, descubrimientos de nuevas zonas, comercio, bodas reales o determinados eventos. En cada turno los cuatro jugadores se van alternando jugando cartas hasta terminar el mismo. Los combates se resuelven mediante tiradas de dados, con posibles apoyos de cartas de combate, y según el tipo de unidad participante. —description from the designer (Spanish)

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Designers

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Carlos Diaz Narvaez

Artists

1
Iván Cáceres

Publishers

1
GMT Games

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