Kingdom Builder is a territory-building board game from 2011, designed by Donald X. Vaccarino with illustrations by Oliver Schlemmer, for two to four players aged eight and up. Each turn a player draws a terrain card and places three settlements on matching hexes, chaining them to their existing clusters whenever the board allows, so a kingdom grows outward from where it started. The board is modular and the scoring rules rotate, because a different set of Kingdom Builder cards is in play each game; the best plan therefore shifts from game to game, sometimes rewarding water adjacency, sometimes sector majorities, sometimes clustering near castles. Turns are quick and a game lasts about forty-five minutes. The game has been issued by publishers including Queen Games, Devir and Rebel, and the Board Game Matcher site describes it as a medium-weight game for players who enjoy spatial puzzles.
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Playing Time PublisherEnigma (Bergsala Enigma) 2 Game Category Game Category Game MechanicArea Majority / Influence 2 Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game MechanicNetwork and Route Building 2 Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
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1. Kingdom Builder (Board Game Matcher)
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Year 2011
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Kingdom Builder is a board game for 2-4 players
View the Source2. Kingdom Builder (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 45
- Designer: Donald X. Vaccarino
- Publisher: Devir
- Publisher: Enigma (Bergsala Enigma)
- Publisher: Evrikus
- Publisher: Lautapelit.fi
- Publisher: Queen Games
- Publisher: Rebel Sp. z o.o.
- Game Category: Medieval
- Game Category: Territory Building
- Game Mechanic: Area Majority / Influence
- Game Mechanic: Chaining
- Game Mechanic: Enclosure
- Game Mechanic: Grid Movement
- Game Mechanic: Hexagon Grid
- Game Mechanic: Modular Board
- Game Mechanic: Network and Route Building
- Game Mechanic: Pattern Building
- Game Mechanic: Tile Placement
- Game Mechanic: Variable Set-up
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 4
View the SourceKingdom Builder (Wikipedia)
ExpansionsQuote, Expansions
Marshlands (2016): Contains four new game board sections featuring four new locations types as well as the new Swamp terrain type, six new kingdom builder cards, and five new swamp terrain cards.
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