Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
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.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Campaign Card Play
Play cards to command conflicts and carry consequences through a campaign.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Point-to-Point Movement
Move along explicit connections between named locations or nodes.
Variable Player Powers
Each player has different abilities, restrictions, or strategic advantages.
Read the full game description
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)