THE TOWER

The families on a small Italian island must build a defensive Tower against corsair raids, but the families are feuding. Refusing to work on the tower at the same time, they work in shifts. Each family has contributed to a general fund that will be doled out as tower sections are completed. They have hired an overseer to manage construction and the tower fund.

COMPONENTS

Gameboard, with tower/rondel, quarry, forest, market, labor market, bank, town hall
6 player boards
5 worker cubes per player
1 overseer meeple
16 plastic tower pieces: each is an outer wall ring with a pie-shaped step from the outer wall to a center ring. During play, tower pieces are stacked with steps offset to form a spiral staircase. 8 pieces have a window to the left of the step, allowing players to see inside the tower to the step just below.
1 tower deck, showing resources to build the next tower level and coins paid on completion
3 resource decks: stone, wood, luxuries (each with bandit) Cardboard lira

Rondel spaces:

Quarry: gather stone to player board
Forest: gather wood to player board
Wagon: move stone/wood to tower
Tower: build using resources at the tower (get paid)
Market: buy/sell stone, wood, luxuries
Labor Market: hire workers
Bank: withdraw/deposit money (keep it safe from bandits/corsairs)
Town Hall: luxuries to bribe/gain influence

There is an inner ring for workers, and an outer ring for the overseer.

The Tower Steps have the same Rondel spaces with lower benefits (resources become scarce, costs rise).

SETUP

1 player board, 1 worker, 30 lira each player.

Game board in the center of the table, tower pieces off to the side. Resource decks on their areas, extra workers on the labor market, money on the bank, and the overseer on the overseer ring at the town hall rondel space.

Each player in turn places their worker on an unoccupied space on the rondel.

GAMEPLAY

Each turn, the overseer moves clockwise around the rondel until meeting a worker. The worker conducts his action, then the player moves that worker to a new unoccupied (by worker or overseer) rondel space.

When new sections of the tower are built, you may no longer place workers on rondel spaces below steps. You may remove workers about to be “buried” below steps. However, if there is a tower window opening onto a step with a worker, that worker inside the tower is also activated by the overseer (but not removed).

Players can place new workers on empty spaces on the top level of the rondel, or toss them down into the tower. If they come out a window, they go back in the labor market; if they wind up on a step without a window, they’re lost; if they land on a step with a window opening onto it, they become useful new workers.

WINNING

The winner has the most coins when the tower is complete.

A survival game, 4 players.

A space station project far away in the solar system outskirts has failed. Personnel start a rescue operation and try to get home alive. The only ship available is a unmanned cargo ship passing by. The ship is empty, robot driven barrel-like vessel. At first the home seeking people must gather whatever necessary supplies they can grab themselves from the station wreck. Secondly, people rest at inhospitable cabins, one per cabin, while they fight for their lives competing for the ever decreasing resources. There's no air, drink or energy in the cabin. They must carry everything they need from a vast cargo section, which is like a circular maze. The cargo section is constantly rotating and the path changes on every move. Cabin's warmth gives only a short rest, when survivors are again and again obligated to put on a space suit and go after last bits of supplies.

On the board you can see five cabins, positioned in the corners of a large pentagon. Inside the pentagon shape there's a big disc. A slightly smaller disk rests on top of the big disc. The smaller disc contains a maze with storage rooms. The big disc's edge includes only connectors, which connect paths between cabin and maze. Basically edge has ten connectors, but two of them are missing. Some paths lead through the maze from one cabin to another. Some paths are dead ends. Every storage room is of different color and has a corresponding mat outside board. On the mat lies nine supply tokens image down. All tokens are covered until some player visits storage.

Players have their own space suit mats. On the mat there's three indicators: air, energy and health. Corresponding tokens are: air tank, energy pack and space juice can. When player acquire tokens, she fills equivalent indicator line. When player uses say, two energy, she removes two energy tokens from the energy indicator line. Player spends one air tank per round. She spends additional air tank when she drags things out of storage.

Both discs can be rotated. One rotation step costs one energy. Three of five cabins are equipped with big wheel rotation buttons. Two other cabins have maze disc rotation buttons.

Player consumes one juice per round. A juice token is removed from the health indicator line.

Player may carry stuff limited amount at one time.

There's list cards telling analogous stores' cargo. Every token has its unique code. List card says: "33BD5 air, B35BD energy, DD53B juice..." Not in particular order. When player first time visits the red storage, she takes the one and only red list card and keeps it. Player has 40 seconds to grab everything she wants when stopping by a storage. On his turn player can visit only one storage. Tokens are not allowed to flip until players turn is about to end.

The winner is who survives longest, or who owns most tokens when certain number of rounds have passed.

Revolution

1 – 3 Players You and your fellow brothers are fed up with the tyranny and oppression of the present age and plan to stage a revolution in order to reclaim your city.

Components:

Three rondels

1. “Pre-Revolution” 5-spaces
   Recruit (+ 1 Revolutionary)
   Gather barricade supplies (+1 Barricade)
   Gather ammunition (+1 Ammunition)
   Declare Revolution (Move to next phase)
   Progress the Spy (Move the spy 1 spot forward)

2. “Revolution Declared” 7-spaces
   Recruit / Add one additional government forces token to your player board
   Attack or Move Lane 1 / Government forces move lane 3
   Gather barricade supplies / Government forces Attack lane 1
   Attack or Move Lane 2 / Government forces move lane 1
   Progress the spy / Government forces Attack lane 2
   Attack or Move Lane 3 / Government forces move lane 2
   Gather ammunition / Government forces Attack lane 3

3. “Discovered” 7-spaces
   Recruit / Add two additional government forces token to your player board
   Attack or Move Lane 1 / Government forces move lane 3 and lane 1
   Gather barricade supplies / Government forces Attack lane 1 and lane 3
   Attack or Move Lane 2 / Government forces move lane 1 and lane 2
   Progress the spy / Government forces Attack lane 2 and lane 1
   Attack or Move Lane 3 / Government forces move lane 2 and lane 3
   Gather ammunition / Government forces Attack lane 3 and lane 2

Three player boards (Consisting of a 3 x 7 grid)
Barricade pieces (Brown sticks)
Ammunition pieces (black cubes)
3D military figurines (Revolutionaries)
Three 3D horseback riders (Spy)
Tokens for government forces
One 20 card recruiting deck (with 2 government spy cards)

The game is played in two stages (before the revolution begins and after). In the pre – revolution game players need to gather support and supplies without their intentions being discovered by the government. On the “Pre Revolution” rondel players can use the “Declare revolution” wedge at any time but when one player declares revolution, all players then play as if they had declared revolution. Each turn a player chooses to not declare revolution they must draw a card from the recruiting deck. If this card is a government spy card the revolution begins and players use the “Discovered” rondel for the remainder of the game.

Players utilize the appropriate rondel and resources to attack and push back the government forces until the game ends.

If the spy reaches the end of a three square track the next two government forces tokens will be turned up.

Combat consists of simple dice rolling. Revolutionary forces must use one ammunition to attack. Barricade pieces are destroyed if successfully attacked.

End Game:

The first players to have all revolutionaries reach the last square on the board and all government forces have been defeated. If the government forces reach the end of the player side of the board the revolution is lost and all players lose. Players can trade barricade and ammunition pieces.