Santa Maria

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The player produces resources, trades, creates shipping routes, sends out conquerors and consolidates religious power by recruiting monks. The player can either train a monk as a scholar (special abilities), as a missionary (immediate rewards), or appoint him as a bishop (happiness points). Dice (representing workers) are used to construct buildings: each die activates a row or column of buildings in the colony. Strategically, it depends on the order in which the player uses the dice. The player with the happiest colony after three rounds wins.

This is a simpler strategy; there is no direct conflict with the other colony players and one of the game mechanics is a die roll, so it is suitable for players new to the strategy. Due to the high variability, there is the possibility of almost infinite replayability.

Contents:
1 game board
4 colony boards
30 expansion pieces
4 town hall playing pieces
3 street tiles
34 Shipping tiles
10 Scholars tiles
6 Bishops tiles
24 Monks tiles
72 happiness and contentment pieces
50 coins
60 resource tokens
12 player tokens
1 year marker token
12 white dice
12 blue dice
Rules in English

The game is designed for 1-4 players aged 12 and over.

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