It is time for another multiple-award-winning title to join Board Game Arena!
In the dystopic 1930s, the industrial revolution pushed the exploitation of fossil-based resources to the limit, and now the only thing powerful enough to quench the thirst for power of the massive machines and of the unstoppable engineering progress is the unlimited hydroelectric energy provided by the rivers.
Barrage is a resource management strategy game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase their storing capacity, and deliver all of the potential power through pressure tunnels connected to the energy turbines of their powerhouses.
Each player represents one of the four international companies who are gathering machinery, innovative patents, and brilliant engineers to claim the best locations to collect and exploit the water of a contested Alpine region crisscrossed by rivers.
Barrage includes two innovative and challenging mechanisms. First, the players must carefully plan their actions and handle their machinery, since both their action tokens and resources are stored on a Construction Wheel and will only be available after a full turn of the wheel. The better you manage your wheel, the earlier your resources and actions come back to you.
Second, the water flow on the rivers depicted on the board is a shared and contested resource. Players have to intercept and store as much of the water as they can, build dams (upstream dams are expensive but can block part of the water before it reaches the downstream dams), raise the dams to increase their capacity, and build long tunnels to channel the water to their powerhouses. Water is never consumed- its flow is just used to produce energy, and it is instead released back to the rivers. Therefore, you have to strategically place your dams to recover the water diverted by you and the other players.
Over five rounds, the players must fulfill power requirements represented by a common competitive power track and meet specific requests of personal contracts. At the same time, by placing a limited number of engineers, they attempt to enhance their machinery to acquire new and more efficient construction actions and to build and activate special unique-effect buildings to forward their own developing strategy.
Check out the game page right now by clicking here:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=barrage
Also, if you want to learn how to play this fantastic game, you can check the interactive tutorial available here. It's a very fast and easy way to get into it within a few minutes.
There are no words to express our gratitude to our developers, Tisaac and Vincentt, who did an amazing job here, bringing you a top-notch gaming experience to play on nearly anything connected to Internet.
Of course, there couldn't be games without a team behind them. And thanks to Cranio Creations, the game designers Tommaso Battista & Simone Luciani, and the art from Mauro Alocci, Antonio De Luca, and Roman Roland Kuteynikov, this title is shining now on your favorite platform.
Thanks a lot to all of them for their support.
That's it for today's WRT (Wednesday Release Time).
We told you there would be water flowing on BGA, but next weeks release will be more about... Oceans. But how many of them? 10? or more?
Let this information sink in a moment, play fair and take care!
強國爭壩:非凡的國家大壩
是時候讓另一款屢獲殊榮的遊戲加入Board Game Arena了!
在反烏托邦的 1930 年代,工業革命將化石能源的開發推到了極限,而此時大型機械連帶無止盡的技術進步對動力的渴求與日俱增,唯一能滿足其需求的正是蘊藏在河流中的水能。
強國爭壩是一款資源管理的策略遊戲,玩家們競相建造雄偉的水壩,並擴建水壩以增加存儲容量,還能通過連結著發電廠渦輪發電機的高壓電網,輸送一切潛在的電力。
每個玩家都代表著四家國際公司之一,這些公司正在整合機械、創新專利和傑出的工程師,以在河流縱橫卻又存在爭議的阿爾卑斯地區確立收集和開發水資源的最佳地點。
強國爭壩包括兩個新穎和具有挑戰的遊戲機制。
首先,玩家必須仔細規劃他們的行動並管理他們的機械,因為他們的建造板塊和資源都會被鎖在建造輪盤上,並且只有當輪盤轉完一圈後才能再次使用。
你的輪盤轉得越快,你的資源與建造板塊就能越有效率。
其次,遊戲圖板上描繪河水是一種既共享又競爭的資源。
玩家必須盡可能多地攔截和儲存水,建造水壩(在上游蓋水壩很昂貴,但可以攔截部分流向下游水壩的水),擴建水壩以增加容量,並建造水道將水引導到他們的發電站。
水永遠不會被消耗─它的流動只是用來產生能量,而是被流回河中。
因此,你必須戰略性地放置你的水壩,以挽回被你和其他玩家改道的水源。
在遊戲的五輪裡,玩家除須滿足輪次獎勵所需的能量要求外,還要滿足個人合約的能量要求。
同時,通過放置有限的工程師,玩家們可以增強機械以獲得新的及更強力的建築板塊,並建造和啟動特殊的效果,以推進其發展戰略。
點擊這裡查看遊戲頁面:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=barrage
此外,如果你想了解如何玩這款出色的遊戲,可以查看這裡提供互動式教學。
這是一種非常快速和簡單的方法讓你在幾分鐘內熟悉遊戲。
沒有言語可以表達我們對開發人員Tisaac 和 Vincentt的感謝,他們在這裡完成了出色的工作,為你帶來了一流的遊戲體驗,幾乎可以在任何連接到網路的設備上遊玩。
當然,沒有團隊支持就不可能有遊戲在此。
在此感謝Cranio Creations 、遊戲設計師Tommaso Battista 和 Simone Luciani ,以及Mauro Alocci、Antonio De Luca 和 Roman Roland Kuteynikov打造的藝術品,讓它能在你們最喜歡的平台上閃閃發光。
非常感謝他們所有人的支持。
這就是今天的WRT(星期三發布時間)。
我們告訴過你 BGA 上會流水,但下週發布的內容將更多關於...
海洋。
但他們有多少呢?
10?
或者更多?
讓這些資訊瞬間沉沒,公平競爭並保重!