In Barcelona, you will take on the role of builders in 19th-century Barcelona working on the new expansion to the city. Your main goal is to construct buildings to accommodate the citizens who want to leave the old city, and in the process, you will also build streets, create tram lines, and build public services. You may even decide to explore. Modernisme, a new architectural and arts style that has been gaining popularity among the rich.
Barcelona is a city building game that is played over a variable number of rounds interrupted by three scoring phases before a final scoring phase. Every round, each player takes a single turn consisting of two or more actions, followed by a building phase (when new buildings are added to the main board), and then prepare for their next turn. There are multiple opportunities to score victory points during the game, but players also gain points at the end of the game from unlocked spaces on their player boards and from Modernisme projects tiles that they acquired. The player with the most points wins.
❶ Classic approach to city building, euro-style game with modern twists that give the gamers many meaningful choices and strategies to try out ❷ High-quality component swith beautiful and thematic art design providing deep immersion in the Culture from the time and region the game is placed in. ❸ Simplicity in available actions, correlated with the deepness of strategies in the game–your perfect easy to learn, hard to master gem!
Contents • 1x Main Board • 1x Side Board • 11x Action Tiles • 14x Cerdà Scoring Tiles • 4x Player Boards • 18x Modernisme Tiles • 24x Cobblestone Tiles • 21x Public Services Tiles • 16x Sagrada Família Tiles ♦ Resources Tokens • 4x Building Bonus Tiles • 1x First-Player Token • 72x Citizen Tokens • 8x +100/200/300/400 VP Tiles • 8x Corner Building Tiles • 20x Intersection Tiles • 12x Level-1 Building Tiles • 8x Level-2 Building Tiles • 20x Wide Street Tiles • 44x Wooden Disks • 4x Trams • 40x Cubes • 7x Level-3 Building Tiles • 1x Sticker Sheet • 4x Player Aid Cards • 1x Cloth Bag ♦ Solo Components: • 8x Solo Cards • 1x Wooden Meeple
Near Mint condition cards show minimal or no wear from play or handling and will have an unmarked surface, crisp corners, and otherwise pristine edges outside of minimal handling. Near Mint condition cards appear 'fresh out of the pack,' with edges and surfaces virtually free from all flaws. '
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Lightly Played (LP)'
Lightly Played condition cards can have slight border or corner wear, or possibly minor scratches. No major defects are present, and there are less than 4 total flaws on the card. Lightly Played condition foils may have slight fading or indications of wear on the card face. '
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Moderately Played (MP)'
Moderately Played condition cards have moderate wear, or flaws apparent to the naked eye. Moderately Played condition cards can show moderate border wear, mild corner wear, water damage, scratches , creases or fading, light dirt buildup, or any combination of these defects. '
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Heavily Played condition cards exhibit signs of heavy wear. Heavily Played condition cards may include cards that have significant creasing, folding, severe water damage, heavy whitening, heavy border wear, and /or tearing. '
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Damaged (D)'
Damaged condition cards show obvious tears, bends, or creases that could make the card illegal for tournament play, even when sleeved. Damaged condition cards have massive border wear, possible writing or major inking (ex. white-bordered cards with black-markered front borders), massive corner wear, prevalent scratching, folds, creases or tears. '