In the dystopic 1930s, the industrial revolution pushed the exploitation of fossil-based resources to the limit, along with now the only thing powerful enough to quench the thirst for power of the massive machines along with of the unstoppable engineering progress is the unlimited hydroelectric energy provided by the rivers. Barrage is a resource management strategic game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase their storing capacity, along with deliver all the potential power through pressure tunnels connected to the energy turbines of their powerhouses.
Each player represents one of the four international companies who are gathering machinery, innovative patents as well as brilliant engineers to claim the best locations to collect as well as exploit the water of a contested Alpine region crossed by rivers. Barrage includes two innovative and challenging mechanisms.
First, the players must carefully plan their actions along with handle their machinery, since both their action tokens as well as resources are stored on a Construction Wheel as well as will only be available after a full turn of the wheel. The better you manage your wheel, the earlier your resources as well as actions come back to you.
Second, the water flow on the rivers depicted on the board is a shared along with contested resource. Players have to intercept and store as much of the water as they can, build dams (upstream dams are expensive but can block part of the water before it reaches the downstream dams), raise the dams to increase their capacity, as well as build long tunnels to channel the water to their powerhouses.
Water is never consumed its flow is just used to produce energy , it is instead released back to the rivers, so you have to strategically place your dams to recover the water diverted by you as well as the other players. Over five rounds, the players must fulfill power requirements represented by a common competitive power track along with meet specific requests of personal contracts.
At the same time, by placing a limited number of engineers, they attempt to enhance their machinery to acquire new along with more efficient construction actions as well as to build as well as activate special unique-effect buildings to forward their own developing strategy. Vendor:
