Featured Game - Concordia

Featured games are our way of teaching new games and highlighting something we think our players may enjoy or take note of. We'll explain from scratch how to play the game with a detailed description and demonstrate a few turns, then break into tables to actually play it. Each week it'll be something new, but will run the spectrum of different lengths, complexities, themes, and game mechanics. So if this week's game doesn't interest you, feel free to look again next time around!

Concordia is a hand management game themed around the Roman empire. Each turn, you'll play a card from your hand for an action that will allow you to collect resources, use them to build on the board, or gain more cards. These cards are also how the game is scored, as each lists a particular criteria that will score at the end of the game. Most often, these are going to reward players who have built in many places on the board, so a successful player will find a way to streamline their resource collection in order to collect more cards and build many buildings.

Concordia is a game for up to 5 players and should take about 1 to 1&1/2 hours to play. It has a complexity of 2.99 according to BoardGameGeek, making it medium weight compared to games typically played here.

Learn the rules here: https://www.riograndegames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Concordia_rules_eng_1_1.pdf
Watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkKX8RxPN5Q

If this is your first time with this group, you should see a link to our Discord group once you've signed up for this event. You may join any time before the event begins to get to know people, but once this event starts, we'll typically join the Lobby voice chat, then move to another voice chat once we've gotten started. Note that I, as the game teacher, will share my screen to show how the game works, but all other interaction will be voice only, no video, so no need to look presentable first. The game itself will be played using Board Game Arena - please create an account on this site beforehand.