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Dec 3, 2025·Review·38:42·193·Watch on YouTube

Capitol / Skyline 3000 — How to Play and Is It a Gem?

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Watch “Capitol / Skyline 3000 — How to Play and Is It a Gem?,” a board game review for Skyline 3000 from Board Gems on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Board Gems on YouTube:

Add floors to your towers, finish them off with roofs, then add them onto the board for area-majority goodness. Wait, build the tower and THEN choose where it goes? Oh, never mind the odd order; we can keep tabs on each other's work-in-progress and try to plan around where we might compete. Escalating points, and brutal scoring in which only the top two score (and sometimes not even that), make for a four-player game with the tension ratcheted up to 11. Alan Moon's and Aaron Weissblum's Capitol (Schmidt 2001) was once a Top 150 board game that didn't have an English edition — until Skyline 3000 (Z-Man 2009), which sadly exited the hobby zeitgeist almost as soon as it entered. It's games like this that are the reason I created this channel — to help people remember what great games these were. 00:00 Intro ▶️ 03:01 How to Play 🎲 18:55 Is It a Gem? 💎 Board Gems highlights older board and card games that are still great games today, and deserve to not be forgotten! Join & Support: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX9Ab6egkU1ru3sgP8TUI2A/join Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/boardgems.com BGG Blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/10011 Brought to you by Pizzeria Ludica! https://www.ludica.ca/ BGG Listings: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1155/capitol https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/54643/skyline-3000 How-to-Play Music provided by Chillhop Music Smoke Trees - Takondwa https://chll.to/0cec2d18 #boardgames #tabletop #vancouver #ludica

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Skyline 3000

Skyline 3000

2009·Alan R. Moon, Aaron Weissblum

2 - 4 players
60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Skyline 3000, from BoardGameGeek:

Players represent corporations competing to assemble city buildings in their orbiting planets and install them onto specially-prepared platforms in the city districts. Each player wants to construct the most living space in the blocks that feature the most desirable improvements (Greenspaces, Spaceports, and Megamalls). Players can also erect Billboards at a loss, to entice customers and to reserve space for future construction. At the end of four rounds of play, the player who has earned the most points is the most successful developer and the winner of the game! Re-implements: Capitol

Designers

Alan R. Moon, Aaron Weissblum

Artist

Josh Cappel

Publisher

Z-Man Games

Categories

City BuildingScience Fiction

Mechanics

Area Majority / InfluenceAuction / Bidding
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