Ian and Jared sit down at the Featured table and take a look at the worker placement comic book publishing game, Age of Comics: The Golden Years, published by Lirius Games.
Age of Comics: The Golden Years Board Game Description from the Publisher
Age of Comics: The Golden Years Age of Comics: The Golden Years is a worker placement management game in which players will run a publishing company during the golden age of comics (1938-54).
In each round the players, in turn, must position 4 meeples (workers called editors). They can choose 4 out of 6 spaces, called publishing tasks. There are 6 publishing tasks in total that can be performed in any order and lead to 6 specific player actions: hire, develop, ideas, print, sales, and royalties. The game lasts 5 rounds. The objective of the game is to accumulate the highest number of fans, make money by publishing comics and create the best portfolio of comic books. There are three main ways to accumulate fans:
- being the first to publish a specific genre and specializing in it;
- publishing comic books with specialized creatives;
- collecting orders on the map.
Throughout the game, a fan chart will track the number of fans accumulated by the comics and will award victory points based on the players’ ranking at the end of every round. In the last round, the number of fans is converted into victory points. The money accumulated is instead divided by 4.The winner is the player who scores the most victory points (VP from now on, represented by a star icon)
at the end of five rounds. VP are awarded both during and at the end of the game.
Links for Age of Comics: The Golden Years Board Game
Publisher: Lirius Games
Designer: Giacomo Cimini and Sónia Gonçalves
Artists: Laura Guglielmo
How to Play: Board Game Teacher
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Artist: Lexin_Music – Aleksey Chistilin
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