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2013 Ranked #12,366

Veritas

Area-control strategy game has rival ideologies copy and spread books through monasteries to preserve their truth and score regions. Burning monasteries threaten stored books while also opening quicker routes across the map.

Strategy Games Medieval Print & Play Area Majority / Influence Pick-up and Deliver

Players

3-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.27/5

Rating

6.62

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.1/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.4/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

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Game description from the publisher: Veritas is a Euro-style board game about the preservation of truth in Dark Ages France. Each player represents some "truth" that's trying to be preserved for posterity by diligent book-copying monks.

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Game description from the publisher: Veritas is a Euro-style board game about the preservation of truth in Dark Ages France. Each player represents some "truth" that's trying to be preserved for posterity by diligent book-copying monks. Players place and copy book tokens in monasteries, then pick up stacks of books and spread them around France. Each turn, a monastery will burn down, and the books in it may be destroyed. After the monasteries have burned down, players can move through them, so travel on the board gets faster as the game progresses. When scoring chips are drawn, each player whose ideology dominates a region scores points. The first player to score 100 points wins, becoming the dominant truth as the Dark Ages end.

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Play and group

Players
3–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
James Ernest Mike Selinker

Artists

1
James Ernest

Publishers

1
Cheapass Games

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