Magnates the Fight for Power

Tycoons is a great strategy game, causing constant interaction between 2 to 5 players, with an immersive historical background. It will introduce you to the world of aristocratic intrigues and power struggles that broke up the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from its heyday during the Union of Lublin, to its fall with the disintegration of the Polish-Lithuanian state and the formation of the Targowica Confederation. .

The player will take command of different tycoons who fight to increase the power and influence of their own family in the prime of the united Republic of Poland and Lithuania. At the head of the most eminent families of the time (Lubomirski, Potocki, Radziwi??, Sapieha and Zamoyski) they will try to weaken their opponents to gradually accumulate greater amounts of power.

Each player has a deck of cards representing each of these families. Some of them are remarkable characters, capable of great deeds, but as in every family, there are also a series of pushovers capable of ruining your reputation.

Fortunately, it is up to you how to handle these characters to assign to each one where they are most useful for the family, fighting against the rest of the players to get the best command posts and influencing those regions that best suit your interests. However, the Commonwealth is always beset by its enemies, and players will have to prevent their selfish interests from spelling the end of the Republic. Sometimes they will have no choice but to assign their best cards to repel the enemy invasions, otherwise, everyone will lose the game.

Tycoons is a fast and fast-paced game, in each round you will have to assign all your family cards in different power struggles, without knowing with certainty with which characters from other families your rivals will face you. The choice of cards to accumulate power quotas is not easy; those cards you use early on, you won't be able to use later, but if you take too long to play your best cards you may lose the chance to play them in the "battles" that really matter.

In Tycoons, you'll be up against continuously to many dilemmas. The best members of your family would guarantee you access to the best positions in the Sejm and the Senate, but do you really entrust the defense of the nation to another family, or on the contrary will you assume your role as a loyal servant of the Republic avoiding its drop? Can you really afford to give up a position in exchange for increasing your influence in a region? Are your rivals plotting against you to lock you out of any power quota?

Game Components:

• • Board,
• • 119 cards (65 Family cards, 4 Senator cards, 25 Privilege cards, 25 Conflict cards)
• • 17 cardboard markers (12 King markers, 5 Advantage/Dominance markers ),
• • 192 wooden pieces ( 175 Estates, 5 Magnates, 5 Sejm Silence pieces, 1 Black Clouds piece, 1 Fortress, 1 Monastery, 1 Palace, 3 Division pieces ),
• • Cardboard insert and zip lock bags to store components.

Manufacturer: MasQueOca Editions