2025Carlos Diaz Narvaez
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2 players120 - 240 minHeavy weight

2024Carlos Diaz Narvaez
Mainly playthroughs and how-to-play. Tanto Monta: The Rise of Ferdinand & Isabella 1470-1516 is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 4 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 10 recorded sessions, 3 unboxings, and 7 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
"Tanto Monta: The Rise of Ferdinand & Isabella 1470-1516" is a prequel to "Here I Stand", Ed Beach's famed game published by GMT Games. It's a Strategic level Card-Driven board-wargame for 4 players (Muslim, French, Portuguese and Spanish) covering the reign of the Catholic Monarchs and the voyages of the Age of Discovery. This is a CDG where each player has to reach 45VP to win in the course of 7 maximum turns. Players play cards for their event or to perform actions from a list of available options for each power and at a specific cost for each action. VPs are earned either by military objectives, discoveries of new zones, trade, royal weddings or certain events. In each turn the 4 players alternate playing cards and so on until the end of the turn. The combats are resolved by means of dice rolls with possible support of combat cards and taking into account the type of participating unit. -description from the designer Precuela de "Here I Stand", el afamado juego de Ed Beach publicado por GMT GAMES. Es un juego para 4 jugadores (musulmán, francés, portugués y español) que abarca el periodo del reinado de los Reyes Católicos y la era de los viajes de descubrimientos. Se trata de un CDG en el que cada jugador tiene que conseguir 45 PV para ganar en un máximo de siete turnos. Los jugadores juegan cartas como evento o como puntos para realizar acciones del listado de las disponibles para cada potencia, con un coste específico para cada acción. Los PV se obtienen mediante objetivos militares, descubrimientos de nuevas zonas, comercio, bodas reales o determinados eventos. En cada turno los cuatro jugadores se van alternando jugando cartas hasta terminar el mismo. Los combates se resuelven mediante tiradas de dados, con posibles apoyos de cartas de combate, y según el tipo de unidad participante. -description from the designer (Spanish)
Learn to play
Tanto Monta: The Rise of Ferdinand & Isabella 1470-1516 has 30 videos from 12 creators: 4 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 10 playthroughs, 3 unboxings and 7 other videos. They date from 2019 to April 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Tanto Monta : The Rise of Ferdinand and Isabella -Rules at Glance For Before Your Game Day" by L'Avant-Garde - A Historical and Wargame Channel, which runs 1 h 25 min. For a quicker teach, "TANTO MONTA: Escenarios" runs 42 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Tanto Monta, Tanto Bloat? - After Action Report and Final Thoughts" by Homo Ludens. 4 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Tanto Monta [Introduction and Headline Event/planning discussion]", one of 10 playthroughs.
If you like it, try The Charge of the 3 Kings: Navas de Tolosa 1212, also by Carlos Diaz Narvaez, or Up Front, Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul and Washington's War, which share several of its mechanics.
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2025Carlos Diaz Narvaez
2 players120 - 240 minHeavy weight
2020Mark Simonitch
2 players120 - 240 minHeavy weight
2010Mark Herman
2 players90 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
"Tanto Monta: The Rise of Ferdinand & Isabella 1470-1516" is a prequel to "Here I Stand", Ed Beach's famed game published by GMT Games. It's a Strategic level Card-Driven board-wargame for 4 players (Muslim, French, Portuguese and Spanish) covering the reign of the Catholic Monarchs and the voyages of the Age of Discovery. This is a CDG where each player has to reach 45VP to win in the course of 7 maximum turns. Players play cards for their event or to perform actions from a list of available options for each power and at a specific cost for each action. VPs are earned either by military objectives, discoveries of new zones, trade, royal weddings or certain events. In each turn the 4 players alternate playing cards and so on until the end of the turn. The combats are resolved by means of dice rolls with possible support of combat cards and taking into account the type of participating unit. -description from the designer Precuela de "Here I Stand", el afamado juego de Ed Beach publicado por GMT GAMES. Es un juego para 4 jugadores (musulmán, francés, portugués y español) que abarca el periodo del reinado de los Reyes Católicos y la era de los viajes de descubrimientos. Se trata de un CDG en el que cada jugador tiene que conseguir 45 PV para ganar en un máximo de siete turnos. Los jugadores juegan cartas como evento o como puntos para realizar acciones del listado de las disponibles para cada potencia, con un coste específico para cada acción. Los PV se obtienen mediante objetivos militares, descubrimientos de nuevas zonas, comercio, bodas reales o determinados eventos. En cada turno los cuatro jugadores se van alternando jugando cartas hasta terminar el mismo. Los combates se resuelven mediante tiradas de dados, con posibles apoyos de cartas de combate, y según el tipo de unidad participante. -description from the designer (Spanish)
Designer
Carlos Diaz Narvaez
Artists
Iván Cáceres, Charles Kibler
Publisher
GMT Games
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Mechanics