Endeavor

By Richard Moore

Endeavour
Z-Man Games
Players: 3 to 5
Ages: 12 and up
Playing Time: 90 minutes.

Feel in the mood for a bit of world exploration and empire building?

Then load up your ships and head out to undiscovered regions in the Kiwi-designed boardgame Endeavor.

You begin your colonisation as one of up to five European powers and the aim is to open up trading routes to continents like the New World, Africa, India and the Caribbean.

To do this you must firstly get a home base then build a port from which to send your explorers out.

Extra resources - such as gold, bricks, population and political power - are freely available in the trade routes and the more of the trade you own the better your chances of grabbing the governorship of the new colonies. This, in turn, gives you extra benefits and victory points.

A balanced spread of resources is vital as they not only have an instant boost to your nation but determine victory points at the end of the game.

The brick level determines the type of buildings you can construct, the amount of gold allows you to switch people between tasks and the bigger the population the more choices you have during the action phases.

With your improving economy you can build more structures to boost production or add population and choosing the right mix of buildings is key to a successful strategy.

Controlling cities within both Europe and the colonial world is also important as each gives you a resource and if you have two settlements connected by a trade route you get a bonus item.

Endeavor is quick to learn but its intricacies will keep you continually refining your path to world domination.

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