2017 REPRINT SOLD OUT
We have reprinted Antiquity this year with some significant updates to the materials, including:
- A smaller box!; dimensions are the same as the standard Splotter box, but 50% deeper to fit all the materials. The picture still shows the old box!
- The wooden pieces, which were simple cubes in past editions, have been redesigned to fit the theme
- Easy-to-handle plastic chits for pollution instead of cardboard tokens
- Harbours are now hex-sized rather than rectangles
- Some of the goods tokens which were hard to distinguish have been recoloured
- Better quality cardboard
- Better quality cutting
See our facebook page for pictures!
The reprint has been shipped 23-25 october 2017. It is also sold out (28 October 2017). It turns out the game is much heavier than before; if you pre-ordered, you are in luck and will pay transport according to the original weight.
Antiquity was first published in 2004 and reprinted in 2005, 2011, 2012 and 2017.
Here's the original introduction:
"These fields no longer yield grain the way they used to," complains the
farmer. "We should settle new lands before our food runs out. Why don't
we start farming olives, like our neighbours?". The cart-driver nods:
"Ever since them city folks started worshipping San Giorgio I have to
travel further and further to new building sites. I'm on my way now to
the new inn they built. I'll change horses there and deliver this load"
he gestures towards the pile of wood in the cart with his head "to the
sea beyond. Gonna start some fisheries there. It is said we'll conquer
those olive-farmers before long. But their land is even more polluted
than ours." The farmer nods his head in reply. As the cart starts moving
again, he returns to the field to harvest the last bushels of grain,
growing between the stumps of what used to be a lush forest - three
turns ago.
Antiquity is a strategy game for 2-4 players. It is set in an
environment loosely modeled on Italy in the late Middle Ages. Players
choose their own victory condition: they can focus on population growth,
trade, conquest, or city building by choosing their patron saint. Each
strategy requires a completely different style of play. Or you can
choose to adore Santa Maria, the most powerful saint of all - but you'll
be expected to build a civilization twice as impressive as any other
player. While your economy is constantly improving, with more and more
advanced cities bringing new options each turn, the land around your
cities is slowly being depleted, forcing you to travel further and
further to gather your raw materials - until finally, there is no more
land left to farm. Let's hope one of you has won the game before that
time!
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