#mercurygames

[crohum]

Cointaner, un juego económico muy interesante que te hace depender del mercado que los demás generen. Y en edición de aniversario, con hermosos componentes. #JuegoDeMesa #BoardGame #Economics #MercuryGames #PlayingTime #BoardGameNight https://www.instagram.com/p/BxJOnX8jXe7/?igshid=ftc1c5cn06q0

[illuminatinggames]

The new Container from Mercury Games is pretty awesome. Bonkers, but awesome 😄 True fact: each of the colors of shipping containers comes bagged, and within that bag, each individual container is bagged. I’ve always been a Container fan, and I like this new edition a lot. Not quite sure about the new Investment Bank option yet; we used it, it didn’t do a lot, but it could be useful at smaller player counts. At worst it doesn’t seem to be doing much damage, unlike most of the stuff in the Second Shipment expansion for the original. #bgg #boardgamegeek #boardgames #mercurygames

[illuminatinggames]

Another game of Container. I picked up a copy of The Second Shipment back when it came out since I was a big fan of the base game. It comes with 3 mini-expansions. One of them (the economies of scale one) is obviously stupid. The inter-player loans one is fine but adds a bunch of rules for extremely marginal benefit; competent players will avoid all but the most stop-gap, short-term loans so there is very little money to be made there. Which leaves the gold luxury containers; we've used them a few times because, like, they're gold! But I think even this variant just makes the game somewhat worse, and I'll stick with the core game. For some reason I think the expansion actually goes for a fair amount of money these days - maybe I'll sell it. #bgg #boardgames #boardgamegeek #valleygames #mercurygames

[discordjack]

#WalledCity is a release from #MercuryGames, which is a company that doesn’t get a lot of hype. The art decisions are questionable, and the rulebook could be streamlined, but other than that I couldn’t find any glaring flaws in my first playthrough; it was a wonderful, fast-paced and refreshing take on area control & hand management that the other 3 players I introduced it to at #KublaCon also really enjoyed. It’s played over 2 rounds of 4 phases each, which are identical in both rounds except for the building. Align: Draft 1 of 12 special powers to use for the round. Build: The board starts out seeded with point chits & dice, but is otherwise totally undivided. Each turn, you’ll play one of your roads along with 1 double-numbered card from your hand of 12 to define the areas to be scored at the end of each Build phase. A card marked “3/2” would allow you to put 3 “citizens” on one side of the road and 2 on the other. Citizens can either be peasants or nobles. Nobles break ties, but in the 2nd round, if the walls remain unbuilt in their area, they run away and don’t count for majority scoring! You only build walls in the 2nd round, and the cards work a bit differently: 1 number adds more citizens, and the other promotes existing nobles to towers along the wall you just built. Score: Each of the areas defined by laying down roads during the 1st building round now score. In familiar area control fashion, having more meeples than the other players gets you more points. There are 4 dice for each of the 5 factions seeded on the board. At the end of each scoring phase, only the player with the most meeples sharing space with these dice scores the sum of the 4 dice, which can be adjusted up or down 1 pip each time you build a road or wall next to them.   Defense: Secretly assign 1 card to a defense area, which will determine the endgame point values for adjacent towers. This is a simple but satisfying mid-weight area control game with very clever mechanics that feel fresh but familiar. I also love how each turn is simply building a boundary and playing a card which has 3 different uses depending on the phase/round and must be managed accordingly. Recommended.