Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Jonathan Franklin
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Played four or five times
Box slightly worn
Cards in good shape
Free shipping worldwide
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
P. Mihalarias
United States
Richardson
Texas
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Condition: Good
I'll give this cool little card game to whomever can post the best joke in the comments below. Number of thumbs will decide the winner at auction's end. (Winner still pays shipping.)
And the WINNER of this fine game is:
EXTRA AVOCADO!
United States
California
CONGRATULATIONS!. I'm glad someone won who actually made me laugh out-loud!
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Lars Ericson
United States
West Virginia
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Jonathan Franklin
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Played a few times.
Box and game in very good condition.
Free in the US, first $11 elsewhere.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Roger Fawcett
United Kingdom
Cheshire
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
There's just one kind of favor I'll ask for you - you can see that my grave is kept clean
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I wanted to get into the similar spirit that many on this geeklist have evoked, so I'm scanning the shelves for things to give away. This is an enjoyable little card game somewhat reminiscent of Glory to Rome, but not as deep. It's been played once and I really enjoyed it, but it is not quite my wife's style of game.
Free shipping worldwide.
This geeklist item has now been selected (although feel free to continue giving me thumbs). The winner is....
Ryan Moore
United States
Clarkston
US
Migraine day... like a mole in my brain
CONGRATULATIONS
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Russell Cooper
United States
Troy
Illinois
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Another small card game that I really, really like. Deeper than it looks. If you can find it, Armorica is worth the small price!!!
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Jonathan Franklin
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Played twice.
Wear on the box corners.
Free shipping worldwide.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
United States
Houston
Texas
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Opening bid: $1
BIN: $5
SOLD!
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Tim Harrison
United States
Cleveland
Ohio
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Excellent. Played twice.
Soft Reserve: $8
Buy It Now: $12
SOLD
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Jonathan Franklin
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Card game played 3 times.
Very good condition, including box.
Free shipping in the US
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Jonathan Franklin
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Played twice - free shipping incl. AK and HI
Edition: International
Language - English incl.
Condition - Excellent
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
John Snyder™
United States
Fresno
California
You and the Cap'n make it hap'n
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Like-new, played once. Will ship to contiguous US only.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Ed Meister
United States
Peoria
Illinois
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Another simple card game. This the third game in Vainglorious Games' Celtic Nation series. The other two, Cambria and Hybernia, will be released by Closet Nerd Games sometime this year.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Justin Davis
United States
Sewickley
PA
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Reserve Met - Congrats to I don't remember what my name is. (Gregarius)
Received in Math Trade but never played by me.
Condition:
Box: Good Condition
Game: Components in excellent condition
Starting Bid: $1.00
Soft Reserve: $5.00
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Laszlo Molnar
Hungary
Budapest
Hungary
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#31
Very light and very simple set collection game with a thin but existing civilization theme. Nothing extraordinary at all, still it's a fun little filler.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Mark Casiglio
United States
Shelton
Connecticut
ConnCon 2013: March 15, 16, 17 in Stamford, CT
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Available Sunday
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Jonathan Franklin
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Nice meaty card game.
Played twice
Very good condition
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
United States
Ithaca
New York
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Plays this week:
Magnate 4
Armorica 2 (new to me - gift from Sam)
Qwirkle Cubes 1
Euchre 1
As promised, we played a new game this week. I'm leaning towards doing a review for it, as I have thoughts about it that might be helpful to someone, and it could use another review.
The first thing you should know is that the rules are terribly written/produced. The rulesheet is front and back of a standard sheet of paper. There are typos. The rules aren't explained very well, especially for scoring, where it could have used an example. I read the rules, then came to BGG to read a review and understand how to play.
It would make a decent warm-up filler for game night, as it's small, pretty quick to set up, and pretty easy to explain, once you know what you're doing.
Each card has two columns. Icons in those columns show you what the card gives you, and the icon in the lower right shows what the card wants for you to purchase it. The green card, above, gives you two coins (2 VP), and the brown card gives you grapes (wine) and two amphorae (they help to feed your people).
To buy the green card, you'd have to have olives, and to buy the brown card, you must have wheat (you start out with 2 wheat at the beginning of the game). You don't spend resources to buy a card, but you must have a certain number of them, depending on where the card is in the display. The cards are laid out in 2 rows, Gaul and Roman, 6 cards face up. You can buy the rightmost card for one of the pictured resource, the one to the left of it for two of its pictured resources, and so on. The cards in the Gaul row always want wheat, and they give you other resources that allow you to take other cards in the bottom row (which also includes wheat, but not exclusively).
Besides allowing you to take certain types of cards, you get bonus points for having the most grapes, olives, and sheep at the end of the game.
Okay, so I've got these cards. Now what?
The main scoring part of the game is to get runs of cards of different colors. At the end of the game you will count along your card row. If you encounter a color that is already represented in that group, you start a new group. So as you're choosing cards, you want to keep this in mind, but sometimes you may want to take a card anyway. There is a way to discard cards that can sometimes hurt you and sometimes help you.
Remember those amphorae on the bottom row? They feed your people. That is, they tell you how many cards you can have in the feeding phase of the turn. If you have more cards than amphorae, you discard cards without amphorae until you have the same number. This is a good time to get rid of a mediocre card that is ruining a great run.
There are enough choices to make it interesting, without too many for AP to really be a problem. You're taking from the shared supply, but there's no direct conflict - someone may take the card you want, but that also might bring a better card into range. After a card is taken, the cards are slid to the right, and the empty spot is refilled from the draw piles. This means that a card that previously cost 2 sheep might only cost 1 sheep for you. The only rules change for 2p is that you discard the end card of each row at the end of a round, to keep the cards moving.
The cards are numbered in phases, much like the Round cards in Agricola, and you treat them similarly - you shuffle each level of cards and stack them in order. The upkeep of the game is sliding the cards over and flipping over a card to fill the gap. We spread our fingers and try to do several at once, so it goes quickly enough. The cards are glossy and of nice quality. The artwork isn't exciting, but it isn't terrible. It's the sort of game that's worth adding onto an order, especially to get free shipping.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
United States
Danbury
Connecticut
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Just read a nice review of this title, and noticed it's available on Amazon & other e-tailers for under $10, plus shipping.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Jonathan Franklin
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Played twice - good condition
Cool little card game
Free shipping in the US, First $10 elsewhere.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
James Davis
United States
Colorado
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Cool little card game with some innovative ideas.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Jonathan Franklin
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Played twice
Free shipping in US/Canada - First $15 elsewhere.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
Larry Rice
United States
Irvine
California
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The third and final part of my Secret Santa 2010 gift. This one has interested me most of the year but would never be available to purchase when I was making my FREE SHIPPING size orders - much to my frustration. Now, I will not have to experience that frustration over this game at least and look forward to getting it played soon, perhaps as quickly as Thursday night!
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Finally played a two player game. It was interesting for a set collection type game. I want to try it with 3 players and see how it plays.
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Board Game: Armorica
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2168]
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by Skotos, in summer
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Posted Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:09 pm
for this item will help you get a copy after all! 
