{"title":"Cyclades","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cyclades-monuments","title":"Cyclades: Monuments","description":"\u003cp\u003eReinforce your cities in the Cyclades archipelago!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAttract more favors from the Gods with Cyclades: Monuments, a mini-expansion for Cyclades that consists of ten monument miniatures and ten associated monument cards. Now you can build temples dedicated to Zeus or Poseidon's glory, a great university to Athena, or a citadel from which Ares will watch down with each of these new buildings giving you a unique power to achieve victory!\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Matagot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56050095980922,"sku":"ZBG-MATSCYC4","price":11.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/9970\/8282\/files\/Cyclades-Monuments.jpg?v=1760984785"},{"product_id":"cyclades","title":"Cyclades","description":"\u003cp\u003eCyclades is a game seeped in and around ancient Greek mythology, by design duo Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc. Cyclades sees players controlling - and constructing buildings on - a Greek archipelago. The double-sided board scales the island chain depending on player count. Players get miniatures in the form of army units and ships. When on the board, they denote area majority\/influence. If you control islands that determines your income, which is vital. There's an auction in each round of Cyclades, where the players try to outbid each other to gain favour from the gods! At the end of the bidding, each player will have a favour from one god. Poseidon grants the player a free ship and allows you to buy more ships, move ships, and to build ports on islands you control. (Islands vary in size; you can only build if there's space on the island.) Ares grants you a free soldier and buy more soldiers. You can use soldiers to attack other islands, if you've got a chain of ships leading to an island you wish to fight. You can also build a fortress. Zeus gives you a priest, who provides huge discounts for the bidding. Zeus also provides a temple, which provides a discount off buying mythological creatures. Some of these beasties have their own fantastic model, such as the cyclops, or the kraken. Athena, meanwhile, grants a philosopher card, and a university. If you can trade in one of each building type (or four philosophers), you can convert them into a metropolis. Providing, that is, you control an island with the capacity to house such a city! The first person to build their second metropolis wins Cyclades. But look out! Are you going to do all the hard work, yourself? Or use your wily nautical ways and conquer someone else's metropolis and claim it for your own?Player Count: 2-5 Players Time: 60-90 minutesAge: 13+\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Asmodee Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56050189861242,"sku":"ZBG-ASMCYC01","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/9970\/8282\/files\/Cyclades.jpg?v=1760985224"},{"product_id":"cyclades-titans","title":"Cyclades Titans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!-- wp:fl-builder\/layout --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyclades Titans, the second expansion for Cyclades, includes a new game board with large islands on which ground attacks can be carried out as well as the Titans of Greek legend, who can conduct attacks without the help of Ares.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Cyclades archipelago, tension has reached a boiling point.\u003cbr\u003eThe conflict is now focused mainly on two large neighboring islands. With the help of the Gods, there are now 6 great cities of ancient Greece fighting for supremacy.\u003cbr\u003eNow, more than ever, the war is raging. And on top of all that, Kronos decided to join the party, and with him comes a horde of Titans, ready to annihilate everything in their path… The Titans expansion allows for up to 6 players, and offers 2 game modes:\u003cbr\u003e• From 3 to 5: competitive game. « Everyone for himself » just like in the base game.\u003cbr\u003eThe goal is still to have two Metropolises at the end of a cycle.\u003cbr\u003e• With 4 or 6 players: team-play (with teams of two) - The goal of each team is to have three metropolises at the end of a cycle.\u003cbr\u003eWith 4 players, one can decide to play either competitive OR in teams.\u003cbr\u003eWith 6 players, the team-play is MANDATORY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBLOG\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, by the grace of Zeus we turn our eye onto \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.board-game.co.uk\/product\/cyclades\/\"\u003eCyclades\u003c\/a\u003e, a game of supremacy in mythological Greece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Cyclades each player takes command of one of the great cities of Greece and attempts to assert there hegemony over the many archipelagos it consists of. You will bid for the favour of the gods, granting you special action, as well as attempting to summon mythological such as Medusa, the Pegasus and Minotaurs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Game\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goal of Cyclades is to construct two metropolises, these are created through the construction of cities or by demonstrating your intellectual might. Taking your opponent's buildings through military conquest is also a valid way to win this game, and in this frantic game of gods and men, you will have to be certain that you are not building for your opponents gain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyclades takes up to five players and at the beginning of each turn you will all try to gain the favour of a god. Making you sure you have enough tribute to beat your rivals to the god you want is especially important since each has a special set of actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe board is extremely tight so make sure your shield is ready and your sword is sharp from turn one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTheme\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCyclades is firmly rooted in Greek mythology however it does also draw inspiration from the area in Greece also known as Cyclades. This area is made up of archipelagos and the game's modular board represents this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe game contains some fantastic artwork on the god and creature cards, and the unique effects each brings to the game will certainly make sure their presence is felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePublisher\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatagot is a French board game company and they have another game in there collection that is quite similar to Cyclades, and that game is Kemet! Though the theme differs, both are hyper aggressive area control games.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatagot also produce some fantastic games for the more faint of heart such as Takenoko, a game about bamboo and pandas, and Dice Town, a western themed dice game. 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