{"product_id":"concordia","title":"Concordia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a very simple game: each turn you play a card. That's it. Of course, it's what the cards let you do that makes the game. Each player starts with the same set of cards and can buy more cards – including cards that are not in the starting sets. It's the Consul and Senator cards that let you do this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the card names suggest, the game is set in ancient Rome – the two sides of the board let you play in Italy or across the whole Roman Empire (set around the Mediterranean Sea, of course). Using their cards, players move their colonists from city to city, build houses and produce, buy and sell goods. Crucially, one card lets them pick all their cards back up again!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the game, players will score for their money, goods and colonists and for cities and provinces they occupy, according to the types of cards they hold. Thus players are collecting cards not just for the action they provide, but also for the boost to their score and to help collect the things they will score for. It's the relationship between these different uses of the cards that gives players something to think about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConcordia\u003c\/em\u003e is another cracking game from designer Mac Gerdts, though without his trademark roundel mechanism this time. I stock quite a few of the expansions – mostly different map boards that provide different challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor 2-5 players, aged 10+, playing time 100 minutes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConcordia\u003c\/em\u003e was designed by Mac Gerdts and is published by PD-Verlag\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFind out more:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e    \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003eConcordia\u003c\/em\u003e at the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/124361\" title=\"More about Concordia at the Boardgamegeek (in a new window)\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBoardGameGeek\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Games from Pevans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58452148486469,"sku":"231","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/0116\/7685\/files\/Concordia-2017-cover.jpg?v=1783095633","url":"https:\/\/games.pevans.co.uk\/products\/concordia","provider":"Games from Pevans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}