Hello fellow gamers!
The Ancient Mediterranean Seas! An epoch full of myths. Endless coasts to be discovered and conquered. But the ancient empires were also Empires of trade and commerce in search of rare goods and grain to feed their people at home. Here it is: The game series that covers this fascinating era. Move your armies and ships over a vast map and lead your empire to the Golden Age.
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Alternative Victory Conditions
Dear backers and followers of our campaign!
Thank you so much for joining this exciting journey of “History of the Ancients Seas” on KS!
We are very close to unlock the stretch goal “Alternative Victory Conditions”. Today we would like to talk about these. To win a regular game in HOTAS players need to gain 10 Victory Points (VPs). Respectively 8 VPs in the short and 9 VPs in the medium playtime version of the rules.
As there are different ways of how to collect these Victory Points, players will follow different paths to win the game which leads automatically to asymmetrical game play. During the game the current level of Victory Points of each faction is visible for all players!
With the alternative victory conditions, we add a very nice alternative to how to win the game. In each game every faction has three different “Victory Conditions Cards”. At the beginning of the game, each player draws one card and keeps it secret.
The VPs you earn for fullfilling the goalds on your card represent between 6 to 8 VPs. This shortens the playing time and adds the possible surprise of “Sudden Victory”. It also offers very nice possibilities for feign strategies. Building monuments early in the game for example might mean that a player needs monuments for achieving victory. His opponents might invest some energy to destroy these.
While they spend “actions” to execute this, the previously mentioned player may head in a complete opposite direction to reach his “true” victory conditions. Let yourself be surprised 🙂 !
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Take care and thanks for your interest in our games! See you in the next blog post,
your Uwe Walentin.
The “History of the Ancient Seas” Kickstarter campaign was successfully funded!
