Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. The average playtime of the game is about 30 minutes per player with players familiar to the game but players first game will take longer with several different actions that you need to consider on your turn. Every opportunity taken is another opportunity squandered and it’s never easy to determine whether your decisions were the best or the most efficient until the final scores are tallied at the end. In addition, I don't like the pacing of the game when there are huge income disparities: it's less annoying in a turn-based game, but in a real-life or online real-time game, sitting around after passing, waiting for Cunningham to finish spending all that accumulated money, is tedious. Here players can sell goods by placing their merchants here and relinquishing a number of goods equal to the number of merchants.

Econ strategy- the first 3 rounds of the game you place down a ton of units that give you a ton of pounds and manufactured goods.placing units on the board), and it’s here that serious number-crunching may be required to optimise your turn and get the best you can out of your limited funds. But fulfilling the demands of export contracts requires infrastructure and organisation and that, my bonnie laddie/lassie, is where you come in.

The instruction booklet helpfully takes you through each of the stages of the game played over 5 rounds - each round only ending when each player has done all they can do with the resources available to them. Unlike some however the multipliers will be decided by how rare an import good is by how much it has been imported using the contracts all players are completing. Obtain an Export Contract: Take an export contract from the export contract board and pay its cost (the cost goes up as the game goes on).In an ideal world you would want to have a lot of the rarest good shipped and the number of imported goods is tracked on the board so you should be able to keep track of it and can keep an eye on other players. The variability of the export contracts, end of round bonuses and the modular, double-sided map, plus the asymetric clan abilities and randomly selected starting resources, plus the ability to choose your starting hexes differently in each game, mean that Clans of Caledonia will keep your interest for a very long time indeed. The game comes with eight different clans, a modular board with 16 configurations, eight port bonuses and eight round scoring tiles.