{"product_id":"santa-maria","title":"Santa Maria Game","description":"\u003cp\u003eSanta Maria is a streamlined, medium complexity Eurogame in which each player establishes along with develops a colony. The game features elements of dice drafting along with strategic engine building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe game is low on luck as well as has no direct destructive player conflict; all components are language independent. In the game, you expand your colony by placing polyominoes with buildings on your colony board.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDice (representing migrant workers) are used to activate buildings; each die activates a complete row or column of buildings in your colony. The buildings are activated in order (left to right \/ top to bottom), then the die is placed on the last activated building to block this space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is therefore crucial where you put new buildings in your colony, along with in which order you use the dice. As the game progresses, you produce resources, form shipping routes, send out conquistadors, as well as improve your religious power to recruit monks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen you recruit a monk, you must decide if it becomes a scholar (providing a permanent special ability), a missionary (for an immediate bonus) or a bishop (for possible end game points). The player who has accumulated the most happiness after three rounds wins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe available specialists, end game bonuses and buildings vary from game to game, which makes for near endless replayability. Vendor: Aporta Games\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"APORTA GAMES","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48015455420633,"sku":"7090044370019","price":69.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8771\/4265\/files\/VR_7090044370019_1_1a87f519-f313-47db-8797-cf4c7380eba6.jpg?v=1771992448","url":"https:\/\/www.supergamers.com.au\/products\/santa-maria","provider":"SuperGamers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}