Rival Seas

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Action Point Allowance — Actions cost time, and players progress on a timeline.
• Area Majority — Players compete for control of shipping companies by investing the most.
• Pick-Up and Deliver — Involves shipping companies and deliveries.
• Route Building — Players can build routes that impact companies and increase their value.
• Stock market — Players hold shares in companies, and stock values change.

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Quotes (from this video)

• This category is hard to name. Between intermediate and expert.
• I would like to play every single game here on this watchlist.
• It's always the same story: it makes almost no sense for me to buy a lot of games that only interest me a little bit, because I simply have too many games at home that want to be played.
• But this one has so much that triggers me; maybe I’ll buy it, or maybe someone will bring it to the con, then I can try it out there.
• So, it’s a game where I have my own money, where I have a company treasury that I have to manage, and I have to bring both into alignment.
• I always find military in such games to be the least exciting component, though it is good to have some kind of threat present, and I’m curious how that’s handled here.
• And it's also a civ game where we build cities. Here you can see all the cards laid out, and I think the illustration is amazing. It just has these KDM vibes, even if it's set in a different world, and, well, yeah, we had that topic, right? Board games as works of art here, for sure.
• The resource management is straight from hell, because you never have what you need, and you can get it, you can convert it.
• That’s really exciting.
• And because of that, depending on which factions are playing, the rules and the focus of the game change a bit, affecting what you do with your actions.

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