Description
Discordia - 2nd Edition - damaged box has a damaged box; the damage is visible in the photos. All components inside are new and undamaged.
In the year 49, the Roman cities on the border with Germania are growing fast, and Empress Agrippina and her son Nero will honour the most successful governor. Discordia - 2nd Edition is a strategy game by Bernd Eisenstein in which you employ sailors, soldiers, merchants and farmers. The goal is unusual: whoever has the fewest workers left in their reserve at the end wins.
How to play Discordia
The game lasts at most four years of five seasons each. In each season, Maximus rolls three dice and takes one, and the others use one of the remaining two. The value of the die determines the action: you take a city tile, such as a ship, barracks, market or farm, and send workers of the right colour to it, expand your city, advance on the development track or take stars. If the colour and value of the die match tiles in your city, you can also send workers there.
At the end of each year the Germanic tribes attack, and you fend them off with soldiers. Then, because of a lack of infrastructure, you draw new workers from the bag, which an aqueduct reduces. Workers on fully occupied tiles go back into the bag. Whoever empties their reserve at any time wins immediately; otherwise, after the fourth year, the player with the fewest workers wins.
Why you will like it
- An unusual goal: you don't collect points, you get rid of workers.
- Everyone uses the same three dice, so every choice matters to the other players too.
- Manipulators let you change the value of a die once per year.
- You can also play on your own, with special Janus tiles.
Who is Discordia for
The game is for one to four players aged 12 and up, plays best with two, and takes 60 to 90 minutes. It is a strategy game of medium difficulty. Its main mechanics are drafting and dice rolling. There is no text on the components. The illustrations are by Lukas Siegmon; the game was first published in 2022, and this is the second edition from 2023.
What might you not like?
The dice and the workers drawn from the bag bring some luck that you can't always control.
What's in the box
- game board and 4 city plans
- 86 city tiles (ships, barracks, markets, farms)
- 140 wooden workers in four colours
- 40 city expansions and 16 towers
- 6 action tiles, 14 privileges, 14 decrees and 10 manipulators
- 20 Germanic tiles and 14 Janus tiles for the solo game
- 48 stars and 3 dice
- aqueduct rings, bag, season ship and start player marker
- rulebook
