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| Vinci |
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$23.45 |
| List Price: |
$29.95 |
| You Save: |
$6.50 |
| Condition: |
New |
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Stock Status
Out of Print
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| GAME INFORMATION |
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| Authors: |
Philippe Keyaerts
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| Number of Players: |
3 to 6 |
| Ages: |
12 and up |
| Typical Game Length: |
120 Minutes |
| Categories: |
Civilization
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| Source: |
Domestic |
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| GAME DESCRIPTION |
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Game Theme
From prehistoric times through the Middle Ages, many civilizations followed one another. Through conquest, they built great empires and
expanded their influence across vast areas. However, these empires would never last. As their influence and responsibility expanded, their inability
to maintain control would weaken their empire. Their nation and culture would enter a period of decline.
Other civilizations would move in and establish their own empires on the ruins of their predecessors. Thus humanity progressed.
Game Mechanics
VINCI invites you to become the leader of an incipient civilization. Using your civilization's different skills and attributes you attempt to build an empire.
Your opponents represent the leaders of other civilizations, with skills very different from yours. You are all competing for the same resources and territory while building your empires.
When you empire grows so large that your people are spread too thinly to expand the empire, you declare that empire to be entering a period of decline.
Then you choose a new civilization and begin the process all over again. You earn victory points for every province that your civilizations occupy. The player who earns a predetermined number of victory points wins the game.
Game Characteristics
With easy to learn rules and beautiful game components, VINCI is a very accessible game. Each game is different from the last because the Civilization Counters offered to the players allow each
civilization's characteristics to vary drastically. In order to win in the face of continually changing situations, it is necessary to be an astute strategist. Choosing the best civilization,
exploiting its strengths and its weaknesses, declaring the decline of the empire at the most convenient moment are delicate decisions, and this is the challenge of VINCI. No matter what obstacles you encounter, you always remain in the race. |
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| CUSTOMER REVIEWS |
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Shin Yoo (5 out of 5)
Among the so-called "empire building" games, Vinci deserves a special mention. A game in this genre is usually fairly complex and in grand scale. There is no strict definition of what an empire building game is, but you can think of it as a game in which you must "manage" a country(civilization) to make it survive various kinds of crisis and conflicts. Civilization(the father of all empire building games) or Age of Renaissance will be a good example of a big, monster empire game. Smaller games in this genre will include Serenissima, Mare Nostrum, Empires of the Ancient World, etc.
Every game describes a specific historical era in somewhat detailed fashion. There usually are more than two
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- 7/28/2004
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Yirmeyahu Avery (4 out of 5)
If you have always liked Risk, but hate losing early on bad dice rolls and playing Yahtzee by yourself while everyone else conquers the world for the next 5 hours, then Vinci might be for you.
Vinci is a conquest game in which players come on to the board with a pair of special abilities unique to them. So one player might get extra points for green pasture provinces, while another player gets to make forts. But the best part is getting knocked out of the game. In most wargames, that means waiting for everyone else to finish. But not Vinci. In Vinci, when you get knocked out, you start somewhere else on the board with a new, budding civilization! In fact, you don't have to wait to be knoc
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- 12/4/2003
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| ADDITIONAL LINKS |
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- Read about Vinci at BoardGameGeek.
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