Game Info
Year
2025
Players
2-4
Age
12+
Playtime
75 min
Complexity
3/5
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Description
A tactical eurogame where players recruit and equip mercenary bands to complete three-act adventures with branching narratives and multiple endings across Renaissance Italy
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Pros
- Three-dimensional tents with action spaces create tactile worker-placement depth.
- Rich thematic setup with secret objectives (ambition cards) that influence end-game scoring.
- A diverse roster of mercenary classes allows varied strategic builds and synergy with equipment categories.
- Branching storybook structure provides multiple endings and replayability.
Cons
- The mechanics appear integrated and potentially complex, which may raise the entry barrier for new players.
- Prototype status means component balance and rules may evolve before final release.
- Space management and the Tetris-like equipment placement could become fiddly, especially with larger mercenary rosters.
Thematic elements
- Mercenary management, tactical deployment, and story-driven scoring through secret objectives.
- A fantasy mercenary world centered around a camp where squads are assembled, stationed, and dispatched on missions; branching adventures drive player progression.
- Storybook-driven with acts, branching choices, and multiple endings influenced by player decisions and mission outcomes.
Comparison games
- Tetris
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Ambition cards / secret objectives — Each player holds secret ambition cards that grant end-game victory points based on the combination of equipment categories owned.
- Camp tent action resolution — Tent spaces provide specific effects; effects resolve in order from tent one to tent eight during the phase two action phase.
- Category-based puzzle (Tetris-like) — Equipment pieces belong to one of four categories; fitting them onto the board resembles a Tetris-like puzzle to optimize space and bonuses.
- Equipment drafting and placement — Equipment is drawn and placed under mercenary cards; players place a corresponding equipment token on their Veon board to equip mercenaries.
- Front line vs reserve management — Mercenaries can be placed on the front line or kept in reserve, affecting task eligibility and movement.
- Narrative Choice — Adventures are driven by a story book with acts and multiple endings; players read narrative text and choose outcomes affecting future scoring.
- Resource Management — Resources are stored on the Veagon board; overloading the Veagon reduces its movement value due to hill symbol markers and resource tokens.
- Resource management and loading area — Resources are stored on the Veagon board; overloading the Veagon reduces its movement value due to hill symbol markers and resource tokens.
- Storybook branching and quest outcomes — Adventures are driven by a story book with acts and multiple endings; players read narrative text and choose outcomes affecting future scoring.
- Worker Placement — Each player uses three squires to occupy tent spaces in a camp consisting of eight tents that combine for action resolution.
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- a bit like a puzzle similar to Tetris
- three-dimensional structure with action spaces
- ambition cards provide additional victory points at the end of the game
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