From Batavia
PUBLISHER: Colon Arc
From Batavia is a card-drafting game of sorts. In general, each player has a ship, and they'll place cargo cards on the ship until it's full, after which they get a new ship. Whoever fills three ships first wins!
In more detail, each ship card has a hold number and possibly an icon. The cargo cards come in five types (cardamon, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, pepper), and they have a cost, an effect, an icon, and a money value. Grain cards have nothing but a picture of grain, yet they can be valuable, too. Each player starts with a hand of five cargo cards.
On a turn, each player chooses a cargo card from their hand, then they reveal them simultaneously. If they can afford to pay the cost of their card, they do so, discarding cards from hand equal to the cost (with a card of the same color as the revealed cargo card counting for two cards) and handing those cards to their -left-hand neighbor. All cards are passed at the same time. If a player can't pay the cost of their card, they return it to hand, then give their left-hand neighbor one cargo card from the top of the deck.
Description taken from BoardGameGeek.
Players | 2-6 |
Playtime | 40 min |
Age | 10+ |
Publisher | Colon Arc |
Year Published | 2018 |
Designer | Toryo Hojo, Kenichi Tanabe |
Artist | TANSAN Inc. |
Category | Card Game |
Mechanism | Card Drafting, Hand Management |
Family | Country: Indonesia |