Friday, February 11, 2022

#89: Anno 1503 (Mark's Top 100 2022)

Anno 1503

BoardGameGeek

  • rank: 3,818
  • rating: 6.2
  • published: 2003

Print Status

  • out of print

Why It's On The List

  • Despite all the Settlers trappings, this is a racing game - albeit one with a very nice exploration theme and some very different strategies you can try to win the race.

Tips & Tricks:

    • Once you know the game, it's 15 minutes per player - making it a great super-filler at game nights.
    • The tendency is to over-emphasize ship-building... but there are perfectly viable strategies that concentrate on production & building your settlements.

    Extras

    • The expansion to the game (only published in German) had some great ideas... but simply ended up making the game longer & slower (The ideas were, for the most part, reimplemented in the Anno 1701 board game... which you'll be hearing more about later on in this countdown!).
    • The game is lightly connected to a computer game I've never played - evidently a civ-building game. (We've just exhausted my knowledge on the subject.)
    • Here's what I wrote about Anno 1503 for The One Hundred.
    • This is the third of seven (7!) games on my top 100 designed by Klaus Teuber.

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