Amerigo

Help Amerigo Vespucci on his journey to discover new land.

From BGG:
In Amerigo, the players help Amerigo Vespucci on his journey to discover new land. The players explore the islands of South America, secure trading routes, and build settlements. The actions available to players are determined through the use of a specialized cube tower, which has appeared in the Queen titles Im Zeichen des Kreuzes and Wallenstein. At the start of the game, this tower is seeded with action cubes, which come in seven colors, with each color matching a particular type of action. During the game players will drop additional action cubes into the tower – but some of these cubes might get stuck in the floors of the tower while other cubes already in the tower are knocked free. Thus, players need to play both tactically – taking advantage of the actions currently available in the best way possible – and strategically – using their knowledge of which actions do what to play well over the course of the game. The game board is composed of nine, twelve or sixteen tiles, depending on the number of players. Players sail their ships through the landscape created for this game, landing on islands to plan and build settlements, which then supply resources and allow the player to earn victory points. Players might want to invest in cannons to protect themselves from pirates roaming the waters or acquire progress tokens to gain special advantages.

Setup

- Setup the map by randomly arranging tiles in a 3x3 manner (3P: 4x3, 4P: 4x4).
  - No water zones can be completely surrounded by land.
  - If land spaces on adjacent tiles connect, they must connect orthogonally, not diagonally.
  - If the volcano tile is in play, it must be one of the central tiles.
- Place the time markers in ascending order on the time marker space on the frame.
- If the volcano tile is in play, shuffle the gold tiles and put 1 face down on each space of the volcano.
- Islands with more than 20 spaces are big islands. Place a treasure chest on each one.
- Place commodity tokens on their printed spaces on each island.
- Place all neutral landscape tiles facedown next to the board, along with the planning token.
- Place all production buildings and their tokens next to the board.
- Each player chooses a color and gets all pieces in that color.
- Mix the pirate markers and randomly place 5 face down on the storage board. Reveal 1 at random.
- Mix all progress tokens and place a random one face up on each space of the progress area.
- Remove any unused production tokens based on player count. Mix them and place face up on the board.
- Each player places a disc on the 0 space of the VP track.
- Place a disc of each color randomly on the special action track. This determines player order.
- First player gets no gold. Each other player gets 1 gold for every player that goes before them.
- Drop all cubes into the tower and place any that fall out onto their spaces of the action circuit.

Gameplay

- Game is played over 5 rounds of 7 phases each. During each phase, each player takes 1 action in player order.
- The first player takes all cubes from the current phase’s action circuit space and drops them in the tower.
- Place all cubes that fall out on into the middle area of the action circuit.
  - The color of cubes determine which actions can be taken.
  - The largest number of cubes of a single color determine how many AP a player gets for any 1 action.
- Beginning with the player whose disc is farthest along the special action track (discs on top goes first), each player chooses 1 available action and perform is. Multiple players can select the same action.
- Player may instead decide to take gold. Gold = total # of cubes / 3, rounded up. Score 1 VP for each gold in excess of 12.
- A player can use fewer AP than allowed.
- After everyone has performed an action, move the cubes to their colored spaces and move onto the next phase.
- May discard a treasure chest at any time to get 3 gold.
- A player may spend any number of gold to increase AP by +1/gold on their turn.
Blue Action - Move Ships
- - First time chosen, place your ships on any spaces on the frames.
  - Each AP allows each of your ships to move orthogonally to an adjacent water space.
  - Each water space can only hold a single ship. Ships do not block other ships from passing through a space.
  - If a ship ends its movement on an anchor space, player can put a trading post on an adjacent trading post space if it is not occupied. First player to establish a trading post on an island gets 3 VP.
Black Action - Load Cannons
- - Move cannon disc up AP number of spaces.
  - If you have movements that would take you beyond 12, get 2 gold and lose remaining AP.
Red Action - Plan
- - Take neutral, production, or colored landscape tiles and place them next to your board.
  - Own color costs 1 AP regardless of size.
  - Neutral tile costs indicated AP. Can only take 1 neutral OR production tile per game phase.
Brown Action - Progress
- - Move progress disc AP number of spaces.</li<>
  - Each time it reaches or passes a space with VP, take a progress token from the storage board and put it on your own.
  - If you have movements that would take you beyond the end, get 2 gold and lose remaining AP.
Green Action - Build
- - Place neutral or colored landscape tiles on any number of island that contains at least 1 of your own trading posts.
  - Own color costs 1 AP regardless of size.
  - Neutral tile costs indicated AP.
  - If building a production building, take 1 of remaining special production tiles and place it with your other numbered ones.
  - Tiles can only be built on land.
  - Each tile must be placed orthogonally adjacent to either your own trading post, neutral tile, or tile of your color.
  - If you build over a commodity space, take that commodity token and space it on your sheet, stacking if needed.
  - If you build over a volcano gold space, reveal the tile and gain that much gold.
  - Cannot build over trading posts but can build over empty trading post spots.
  - Score VP for each placed tile. Smaller number for small islands (<= 20 spaces), larger number for big islands (> 20 spaces).
  - When the last empty space of an island is covered:
    - Person that finishes it gets 3 VP and treasure chest if available.
    - All players get VP based on the number of trading posts they have on the island.
Yellow Action - Buy Production Tokens
- - Buy production tokens from the storage board by paying indicated AP cost and placing on your sheet.
White Action - Special Action
- - Choose to change player order or take a special action.
    - Change player order: advance AP number of spaces on the special action track, stacking on top. If you have movements that would take you beyond the end, get 2 gold and lose remaining AP.
    - Take a special action: Perform the action that your special action disc is on using phase’s AP number.

End of a Round and Intermediate Scoring

- After ending the phase in which all white cubes a dropped, end the round and do intermediate scoring.
- Each player must fire cannons equal to pirate’s strength (sum of all face up pirate tiles) by moving their cannon disc down that many spaces. If a player does not have enough, they drop to 0 and move their VP marker back pirate strength # spaces.
- Reveal 1 more pirate marker.
- Return all progress tokens from the right half of their area to box. Move all left half markers to the right half. Fill left half.
- Return all production tokens to the box then refill spaces.
- Remove topmost time marker and return it to the box.

End of the Game

- Convert any remaining treasure chests and progress tokens that grant gold. Each gold in excess of 12 earns 1 VP.
- 1 VP for every 3 gold.
- For each good, get VP = number of production tokens x number of commodity tokens. Ignore cost on production tokens.
- Evaluate all progress tokens marked with an E.
- VP based on progress token: number the disc sits on or the highest number passed.
- VP based on the highest number on or passed on the special action track.
- Ties broken by which disc is on top of the special action stack.

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