Studio H2024Bruno Cathala & Ludovic Maublanc
Cyclades - Legendary Edition
- Ships from Hudsonville, MI. Free in-store pickup.
- Returns within 7 days in original packaging.
Is it for your table?
Room for a crowd: up to 6 players.
A full game night, start to finish.
Some meaty decisions. Best with players who game regularly. (2.8 / 5 on BGG)
Recommended for teens and adults.
About the game
Cyclades - Legendary Edition is a board game from Studio H, designed by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc (2024). It plays 2–6 players in 60–90 minutes, for ages 13+. BoardGameGeek players rate it 8.1 out of 10 and call it medium (2.8 / 5 weight).
Cyclades is an epic, tense and lively game that is easy to understand. Each player leads their faction to impose their hegemony on the Cyclades isles in the time of a fantasy mythological Greece. Players will place bets to gain the gods favors, hire creatures and heroes to achieve their goals. Thanks to a smooth and intuitive gameplay, epic actions follow one another at a fast pace. Simple rules and a clear iconography allow for a quick immersion in the game for beginners. Fans of the first edition of Cyclades will rediscover this legendary game with brand new eyes thanks to gameplay modifications and numerous improvements added by its two successful authors.
More than just an aesthetic facelift, Cyclades Legendary Edition takes the original game to a whole new level. The Director's cut by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc combines the original game and its many expansions into a renewed, more epic, more thrilling gaming experience through an updated gameplay.
Among the major changes :
3 game configurations:
- A "Classic" mode for 3 to 5 players in which each player defends their own interests
- A "Teamplay" mode for 4 or 6 players, offering the possibility to play as teams of 2, mixing cooperation between teammates and confrontation against opponents.
- An enhanced and improved “2-players” mode
A modular game board is now built with landscape tiles assembled by the players during the setup of the game, allowing for everchanging maps and game strategies, bringing a constantly renewed gaming experience
- 6 gods instead of the 5 originals are now available, increasing players variety of actions
- New free mandatory construction actions for the gods that considerably speed up the overall game time and the interaction between players
- Mercenaries, a new unit that comes with the new goddess: Hera, who enforces your troops during battles.
- New Creatures and Heroes are now available in the base game and have been reworked to offer new strategic opportunities in building metropolises and gaining decisive advantages on the battlefield.
- Shorter and more dynamic bidding phases thanks to a new exponential bidding scale.
- The new metropolis system provides for bonuses that will boost your assets.
- All gaming elements and illustrations have been redesigned by the original artist Miguel Coimbra.
Contents:
- 1 auction board
- 5 god tiles
- 118 wooden meeples
- 30 Prosperity tokens
- 15 Metropolis tokens
- 40 building tokens
- 10 Archipelago tiles
- 40 Philosopher & Priestess Cards (44x68 mm)
- 27 Hero & Creature Cards (65x100 mm)
- 15 Hero & Creature standees
- 6 faction screens
- 2 Battle dice
- 100 gold coins
Details
- Designers
- Bruno CathalaLudovic Maublanc
- Publisher
- Studio H
- Mechanics
- Area Majority / InfluenceArea MovementAuction / BiddingAuction: Fixed PlacementConstrained BiddingDice RollingModular BoardSet CollectionTurn Order: AuctionVariable Phase Order
- Published
- 2024
- SKU
- SHCYC01EN
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