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Coimbra

Name: Coimbra
Brand: eggertspiele
SKU: ESG50110ENFR
Price: 37.89 EUR
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€37.89 EUR ~~€48.35~~

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Designer	Flaminia Brasini Virginio Gigli
Publisher	eggertspiele
Players	2-4
Playtime	60-90 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansions	Coimbra: Royal Treatment
Additional Info	245638/coimbra http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/245638/coimbra/forums/63

In the 15th and 16th century, Portugal is thriving under its leading role during the Age of Discovery. Nestled in the heart of Portugal, the city of Coimbra serves as a cultural center of the country. As the head of one of Coimbra's oldest houses, you seek to earn prestige by deepening relationships with nearby monasteries or funding expeditions of the era. To reach this goal, you must vie for the favors of the city's most influential citizens, even if you must offer a bit of coin or some protective detail.

Coimbra introduces an innovative new dice mechanism in which the dice players draft each round are used in multiple different ways and have an impact on many aspects of their decision making. While there are many paths to victory, players should always seek to optimize their opportunities with every roll of the dice. Combined with ever-changing synergies of the citizens, expeditions, and monasteries, no two games of Coimbra will ever be the same!

Good Game but Not for Me

After three plays I can see this is a good game - meaningful choices, fun dice drafting, and tableau building - but having cards snatched out from under you makes it hard to plan long term, and doesn't feel good to me.

Really solid track-centric Euro

Managing randomness of the dice rolls by drafting them is a fun mechanic, and the whole game looks very attractive. A game where you will want to do everything but can only manage to do some. Really solid medium-heavy strategy game.

Interesting Dice Drafting

Coimbra offers some good decisions to players using a dice drafting mechanic where you must balance bidding order, resource management and colour based abilities. The board is beautiful and the components are very good quality. I would recommend playing the game a couple of times with the same group for it to properly shine as there are some symbology hurdles for new players.

One of the top euro games

Great interweaving mechanisms that make this euro simple to learn but complex enough to have a very deep strategy

Very good, streamlined, dice drafting game.

Could use an expansion for improved replayabilty.

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I am playing it in a few weeks and review it tehn :)

Great quick game

Great game, great artwork, and I love the “back-to-front” scoring

Fast

Fast shipping great product

Meadow: Cards & Sleeves Pack

Solid content, though annoyingly 'incomplete'.

Honey Buzz is a surprisingly intriguing worker placement. There isn't anything too revolutionary, but the combination of mechanics works well, and it's wrapped up in an inarguably delicious presentation. Fall Flavors ramps things up and adds more variety than I thought, turning Honey Buzz into a more robust experience. At first, the mini-modules seemed a little tedious to learn and integrate, but they're actually pretty intuitive and my first test play used all of them (which I recommend). Victory isn't dependant on exploiting the new content, but instead, this expansion does what all expansions should and just opens new avenues for strategic possibilities.

What's disappointing about the release is how it teases the other additional content, namely the Cornucopia promo pack and the Fall Player Piece add-on. There's practically enough materials in Fall Flavors to have a whole additional copy of game to replace base base Honey Buzz with -- which I think would be great -- but the only thing holding consumers back is the lack of those 2 aforementioned packs. Instead, I'm left with materials I need from both base Honey Buzz and Fall Flavors, with too much that can fit into one box, with even some of it being made redundant (once you add the new foliage tiles in, you'll basically throw away some of the old ones as part of the reintegration). This of course is only a problem UNLESS you purchase the additional packs, thus making a new fall edition of the game and rendering ALL of the base stuff obsolete. It's a bit of a conundrum which I think ultimately comes down to cash grabbing from already loyal fans of the design. One additional note: anyone who upgraded the coins in base Honey Buzz to the official wooden ones will be frustrated to find that even the deluxe copy of Fall Flavors only includes cardboard 50 value coins. If consistency is as important to others as it is to me, then the Cornucopia box is almost necessary just for the wooden coins.

If all of the new contents were released together in one box as a Honey Buzz 2.0, I'd probably gripe less and be happier. Alas, I will likely continue to throw money at the company that intentionally planned their release to optimize profits from those who appreciate cohesion and consistency.

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