Lisboa: Deluxe Edition Plus Queen Variant (Kickstarter Special) Eagle Gryphon Games

Board Game Geek Rating: 6.78
Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 8.32
Players: 1 to 4
Published: 2017
Content Notes: Kickstarter Lisboa Deluxe Board Game Edition. Includes Core Game, and all achieved stretch goals.  These include many items not in standard Lisboa (see bold items in list below). Please note: unless otherwise stated paid add ons from the Kickstarter Campaign are not included.

Lisboa Deluxe content (not in Standard Lisboa):
 💥1 – Clergy Tile Cloth Bag (vs none)
 💥1 – 2 Player Overlay (vs none)
 💥12 – Card Start-up Pack (vs none)
 💥1 – Decree Display Board (vs none)
 💥14 – Public Buildings – Rewards Tokens (vs none)
 💥24 – Store Rewards Tokens (vs none)
 💥4 – Player aid booklets (vs 2)
 💥4 – Expanded player boards (vs non expanded)
 💥4 – Stenciled Scoring Discs (vs non stenciled)
 💥20 – Plans with 16 Double-sided Public Buildings (vs 0 double sided buildings)
 💥8 – Stenciled scoring discs (vs non stenciled)
 💥1 – Cardinal Deluxe Meeple (vs standard)
 💥4 – Wooden price markers (vs non-wooden)
 💥8 – Stenciled influence disks in 4 player colors (vs non stenciled)
 💥4 – Deluxe Courtier meeples (vs standard)
 💥32 – Deluxe Official meeples (vs standard)
Plus
 💥1– Queen Variant Promo (vs none)

Description: Lisboa is a game about the reconstruction of Lisboa after the great earthquake of 1755.

On November 1, 1755, Lisbon suffered an earthquake of an estimated magnitude of 8.5–9.0, followed by a tsunami, and three days of fires. The city was almost totally destroyed. The Marquis of Pombal — Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo — was then the minister of foreign affairs and the king put him in charge of the reconstruction of Lisbon. The Marquis of Pombal gathered a team of engineers and architects, and you, the players, are members of the nobility members who will use your influence in the reconstruction and business development of the new city. You will work with the architects to build Lisboa anew, with Marquis to develop commerce, and with the king to open all the buildings, but the true reason you do all this is not for greatness or fame or even fortune, but for the most important thing of all in that time: wigs.

Lisboa is played on a real map of downtown Lisbon. During the planning of the downtown project, the type of business permitted in each street was previous determined. The economic motor is driven by the wealth of the royal treasure, and this treasure is controlled by player actions during the game, making each match a totally different experience. The game ends after a fixed number of rounds, and whoever gathers the most wigs by the end of the game wins.

Vital Lacerda game designer.  Lisboa is played in rounds. Each round, all players play one turn. They may place one card on their display or replace one card from this display. During the game, players schedule hearings to get character favors, such as commerce, construction, and openings. The iconic buildings score the stores, and stores provide income to the players. Players need to manage influence, construction licenses, store permits, church power, workers and money, with the workers’ cost being dependent on the prestige of the players.

The Lisboa: Queen Variant replaces card number 57 when it appears in the game, providing a new twist when playing Lisboa! This variant evokes the relationship between Mariana Vitoria (1718–1781) and the Marquis de Pombal. When the king can no longer reign, the queen becomes regent. Mariana Vitória did not like the Marquis de Pombal because of the way he had handled the Tavora affair, in which a noble and powerful family, friends of the queen, were accused of attempted regicide and then executed in public by the marquis, without a fair trial, solely to gain political power. In 1777, immediately after the king’s death, she dismissed the Marquis by royal decree, and exiled him to his hometown, Pombal.

–from the publisher 

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