ARDEVUR: The Game of Resources társasjáték

Angol leírás

Overview:

Ardevur takes players into the high-stakes world of global resource extraction, trade, and empire-building. Set across beautifully illustrated maps of Africa and Europe (with future expansions introducing other continents), players act as resource tycoons, competing to control vital territories rich in Zinc, Copper, and Cobalt. As you extract resources and manage your empire, you'll need to outmaneuver your opponents through strategic territorial expansion, infrastructure development, and market domination.

The ultimate goal is to accumulate a net worth of 1 billion Hashtags (HT$), the game’s currency. Players achieve this by acquiring territories, building and upgrading key infrastructure, extracting valuable resources, and trading them efficiently. Victory can also be claimed if, after reaching specific development milestones, a player with a substantial resource network triggers the game’s early end, and finishes with the highest total net worth.

Gameplay Details:

Territorial Control:
At the start of the game, players strategically acquire territories across the game board. Each territory offers unique resources and opportunities. Managing these territories is key to your success. Players can purchase and exploit different areas on the map, ensuring that they optimize both resource production and infrastructure development.

Resource Extraction:
The core of Ardevur revolves around gathering resources like Zinc, Copper, and Cobalt from different territories. Players need to balance exploration efforts with extraction to maximize their revenue. Resource cards, along with dice rolls and tactical choices, determine how much a player can gather from their mines each turn.

Infrastructure Development:
Players can build and upgrade infrastructure like:
Mines: To extract resources.

Warehouses: To store resources safely.
Offices: For managing operations.
Vessels: To transport resources across regions, ensuring efficient trading.
Building and upgrading these facilities will improve the efficiency of your resource management, increase your extraction output, and ultimately enhance your empire’s net worth.

Economic Strategy and Trading:
Throughout the game, players have the opportunity to sell their extracted resources to markets for profit. Strategic trading and timing your sales can significantly impact your wealth. Whether you hoard resources or flood the market with supply, balancing short-term cash needs with long-term growth is crucial to winning the game.

Exploration and Expansion:
Each player starts with a small section of the map but can expand by purchasing additional territories. This expansion is critical, as each new territory brings potential resource wealth and strategic advantages. However, expanding too fast can stretch your resources thin, so careful planning is required.

Action Cards and Events:
Players draw action cards during their turns, which can introduce unexpected twists, such as market crashes, booms, and other events that shake up the game. These cards can either provide critical advantages or force players to adjust their strategies on the fly.

How to Play:

Players manage territories, extract resources (Zinc, Copper, Cobalt), and build infrastructure such as offices, warehouses, and vessels to increase their operations' efficiency. They can buy territories, explore for resources, and exploit them for profit. The game progresses in turns where players perform both strategic and operational actions, such as drawing cards, expanding their territories, or upgrading their structures.

Victory Conditions:

The game is won when a player reaches a total net worth of 1024mHT$ through a combination of cash, resources, and upgraded facilities. Players need to own specific structures, including 5 mines, 2 factories, 2 warehouses, and more. Alternatively, the game ends early if a player with 5 active mines calls to end the game, after which the highest net worth wins​.While accumulating wealth is the primary objective, there are multiple strategies players can employ. Some may focus on aggressively expanding their empire and monopolizing resources, while others might invest in infrastructure and trade to grow their wealth more gradually. The dynamic nature of the game ensures that no two games are ever the same, offering deep strategic complexity.

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