Anno 1800: The Board Game

October 2020 (SPIEL.digital)

The Power of Gold Mini-Expansion

Anno 1800 offers a strategic experience built around card play and resource conversion. Players build their island economies, trade with others, and explore new territories. The repetitive resource conversion and long playtime can detract from the overall experience.

Wallace does a great job of transporting a computer game into board, with various paths to build resources. Player interaction is encouraged: tracking your opponents' progress, either to steal a resource tile before they do, or trade to fill gaps in your own engine. The end game trigger can become an exciting race. The biggest issues? Certain advanced resource tiles are dead ends ie huge amount of work if only one card requires it, but they don't lead anywhere beyond that. The museum artefact and zoo animal cards contribute to end game scoring but feel like an after thought ie during the game, you're busy building other things so the cubes you place at the end are simply a by-product of playing the game. I understand that the next version will fix these issues, but none of them are fatal flaws.

A very interesting system where players are building out a production chain together, encouraging positive player interaction. Unexpectedly streamlined and smooth to play for a Wallace game.

Продавам/заменям за 80 лева. Скъсан и залепен един ръб на кутията.

Seems to have some rough edges and lick of the draw plays a factor, but it's a neat system overall.