“Wealthy citizens of medieval Prague organize building projects to gain king’s favor.”
Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/308765/praga-caput-regni
Playing Time: 45-150 Minutes
Weight: Heavy
Genre: Economic Town Builder
Designer: Vladimir Suchy
Players: 1-4
Praga has a lot going on, but its’ the presentation that wins you over. You have two wall stands to build, as well as the action crane wheel and the nice little bridge. You’ll manipulate all of these to gather resources, build walls, complete the bridge, construct buildings and advance technologies.
The beating heart of Praga is the action crane wheel. This spinning disc contains beige tiles, each with two actions the player can choose between. However, each tile is on a wheel which spins around, and lines up with bonuses on the inner circle of the wheel. On top of that, tiles may have costs or bonuses on the outside. The net result is an action system that lets you take any action tile – if you’re willing to pay the cost, but on the flip side, sometimes it’s worthwhile to take an action you don’t REALLY want to take because the free bonus actions are just that worthwhile.
Praga Caput Regni is just a heavyweight of a heavy Euro, which combines beautiful presentation, deep strategy and a very novel core mechanic. Just a great grab if you like the heavy stuff. Also, how many of you noticed that this is literally the same blurb I cut and pasted from last year? Actually, it’s not, it’s heavily edited, except for this last paragraph here. Whoops, now that’s different too.
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