Watch “Hydrologist Meets Barrage,” a board game interview for Barrage from Unfussy Board Games on BoardGameVideo.
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Hydrologist Steve Wade discusses the theme of the modern strategy board game Barrage with Unfussy Board Games.
Barrage won the The International Gamers Award 2020 and is a wonderful design from Tommasso Battista and Simone Luciani.
Board game illustrations are by Antonio De Luca, Roman Kuteynikov and Mauri Alocci.
Barrage was published by Cranio creations.
Simone Luciani worked co-designed Lorenzo il Magnifico which also is a Cranio Creations published game. Luciani's big 2021 game is going to be Darwin's Journey. He was also involved in Grand Austria Hotel, The Voyages of Marco Polo and Tzolk'in:The Mayan Calendar.
Other heavy nominees for the International Gamers award were the board games Maracaibo and Imperial Struggle.
Barrage is available on Tabletopia.
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Mainly reviews. Barrage is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 42 reviews, 14 how-to-play guides, 8 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 10 other videos.
1 - 4 players
90 - 180 min
Very heavy weight: Rules-dense, long sessions
About Barrage, from BoardGameGeek:
In the dystopic 1930s, the industrial revolution pushed the exploitation of fossil-based resources to the limit, and now the only thing powerful enough to quench the thirst for power of the massive machines and of the unstoppable engineering progress is the unlimited hydroelectric energy provided by the rivers.
Barrage is a resource management strategic game in which players compete to build their majestic dams, raise them to increase their storing capacity, and deliver all the potential power through pressure tunnels connected to the energy turbines of their powerhouses.
Each player represents one of the four international companies who are gathering machinery, innovative patents and brilliant engineers to claim the best locations to collect and exploit the water of a contested Alpine region crossed by rivers.
Over five rounds, the players must fulfill power requirements represented by a common competitive power track and meet specific requests of personal contracts. At the same time, by placing a limited number of engineers, they attempt to enhance their machinery to acquire new and more efficient construction actions and to build and activate special unique-effect buildings to forward their own developing strategy.
Designers
Tommaso Battista, Simone Luciani
Artists
Mauro Alocci, Antonio De Luca, Roman Roland Kuteynikov
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