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The first cities on the Rhine emerged from Roman outposts protecting the border with Germania. As the governor of one of these cities, your task is to develop it in the best possible way, while also defending it against the Germanic tribes. Empress Agrippina and her son Nero will inspect your actions and honor the most successful governor.
In 'Discordia', you develop your city by building farms, barracks, defenses, harbors, and markets, and by trading with ships. Use your seamen, soldiers, merchants, and farmers profitably, fulfill decrees, and secure privileges — acting carefully at all times so that your city grows neither too fast nor too slow. Will you have the best-developed city at the end of the fourth year, or will you manage to impress the empress before then and win the game early?
—description from the publisher
- Acrylic components
- Reasonably priced (under $60 for base game/expansion bundle)
- Unique art style
- Artist will likely profit from back-end sales, potentially ensuring game release
- Poor spotlighting of game/components
- Rule booklet not available at launch
- Lack of communication/thanks after 8 days and significant funding
- Initial price impression was misleading
- Red flags in presentation and communication
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- "You have acrylics, which people love acrylics. There's a whole camp of appeal of the people that love acrylics over minis. I'm in that camp, personally."
- "Do I want it? No. You didn't You didn't show me anything really tangible or of value that was like helpful in my decision-making purchase if I want to buy a great game."
- "The boring thing about doing the rule booklet... and then like, the fact that the rule booklet's still not here and you said it's going to be here and you launched 8 days ago and got 16,000 euros."
- "Final grade is not great. So, do I want it? No."
- "I don't feel comfortable with it at all. I hate to say it, but no."
- "It's a D."
- "Look when you zoom in on your acrylics. Oh, you're making with Long Pack. Once again, why isn't that on your page? That makes you look more credible."