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Rating: 7.2 Good
Popularity:5
Difficulty:Medium
Year:2018
Players: 2-4 players
Playing time: 100-218 minutes
Age:12+

Official Site: Lowlands - Official Product Page


Created by: Claudia Partenheimer, Ralf Partenheimer, Andrea Boekhoff

Published by: Feuerland Spiele, DiceTree Games, Maldito Games

Alternate Names: Les basses terres, Das tiefe Land, Tierras Bajas, ローランド, 로우랜드

Description:

The low land is a rough area where hard-working folk make a living by the sweat of their brow. Under constant threat of storm and flood, communities here rally together to build dikes that keep the rising water at bay.

But every citizen constructing a dike is one fewer citizen tending flocks and maintaining the family farm. The residents here are constantly torn between selflessness and self-interest, and only those who can strike this delicate balance can thrive in this harsh landscape.

In Lowlands, you carve your farm out of this unforgiving land, gathering and spending resource cards to transform your farmyard into pastures that allow you to profit from breeding sheep. Adding expansions to your farm will unlock new options and score you victory points, but helping to build the dike that collectively protects all players is also rewarded.

No matter what, the tide will rise and, if the dike isn't high enough, it could rush in and sweep away your hard-earned profits. Will you sacrifice your own farm for the good of the community, or will you pursue your own agenda? The choice is yours.

Even without the poor weather, life on a farm is one of constant work where you find yourself tending flocks of sheep, extending their pastures, and looking for the right moment to sell them for a profit.

To complete all these tasks, Lowlands gives you a group of farmers that you can assign to various tasks around your farm. To get the most out of them, you must think strategically, deciding which actions you want to take and the best time to take them.

Once they've been assigned, your farmers help you build a bustling farm where there was once scrubby bushes, trees, and lakes. You begin the game with only two sheep and a small pasture, but your farmyard is rife with possibilities, its many empty spaces inviting you to customize your farm as you see fit.

While you could simply focus on creating more area for your sheep to roam, the game also provides plenty of options for customizing your farm with various buildings and features. Not only are these tiles worth victory points at the end of the game, they also make your farm more efficient and more profitable.

You might add a feeding trough to your farm, for example, to immediately earn another sheep and the ability to house two sheep per pasture space instead of just one. Or you could construct a lake cabin on your property to get away from it all for a bit.

While this tile doesn't give you any special abilities, it increases the value in victory points of the farmyard spaces immediately adjacent to it. Ultimately, you are free to pursue whatever strategy you see fit, building a farm wholly your own.

On top of the challenges of building a successful farm, of course, you also have to deal with the tempestuous weather that comes with living on the wave-battered coast of the North Sea.

Here, the tides always seem to rise a little higher, threatening to take a dent out of your profits by sweeping away some of your flock. To ensure that this doesn't happen, you always have the opportunity to send your farmers to contribute to the dike instead of working on your farm.

When you do, you also commit resources to creating dike elements that are added to the board as a buffer against the rising waters. Add enough of these pieces and you might prevent disaster for everyone. The tide turns repeatedly, bringing with it new flood pieces.

If there are enough dike elements in place to hold back the rising waters, players' farms are spared. If the dike breaks, however, you could be forced to take dike breach tokens that have adverse effects at the end of the game.

While lending a hand with the dike at the expense of your own farm is certainly a nice gesture that keeps everyone safe from the floodwaters, it has rewards of its own. For each resource you contribute to the dike, you advance one step up the dike track.

Not only does advancing far enough on this track grant victory points, it also amplifies your reward if the dike holds and lessens the blow when it breaks. It is in your best interest, then, to keep pace with other players on the dike in order to protect your investments back home one the farm.

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On the wave-battered coast of the North Sea, hard-working folk make a living by the sweat of their brow. Under constant threat of storm and flood, communities rally together to build dikes that keep the rising tide at bay.

But every citizen constructing a dike is one fewer citizen tending flocks and maintaining the family farm. The residents are torn between selflessness and self-interest, and only those who can strike this delicate balance can thrive in the harsh landscape.

Components

Shared Components
  • 1 Main Board
  • 2 Sheep Market Boards
  • 3 Resource Markers
  • 85
  • 6 3-sheep Tokens
  • 64 Fences
  • 1 Phase Marker
  • 12 Flood Cards
  • 66 Resource Cards
  • 1 First Player Marker
  • 36 Flood Pieces
  • 13 Dike Segments
  • 5 Progress Tokens
  • 1 Value Marker
  • 30 Dike Breach Tokens
  • 53 Coins
  • 4 Farmer +2 Tokens
  • 1 Sticker Sheet
  • 1 Scorepad
  • 1 Appendix
  • 46 Farm Expansion Tiles:
  • 12 Sheep Buildings
  • 6 Storm Surge Buildings
Player Components (1 Set Per Player)
  • 1 Farmyard Board
  • 1 Income Board
  • 2 Laborers
  • 1 Reference Sheet
  • 1 Dike Point Marker
  • 3 Farmers
  • 4 Building Markers

Object of the Game

The winner in Lowlands will be the player who scores the most victory points (VP). Housing sheep and building the dike will both provide VP, though their values will change over the course of the game. …



A. Build a Farm Expansion

This action allows you to build exactly one of the farm expansion tiles faceup that are next to the board: either a building (shown by a brown border) or a feature (shown by a green border).

To build a farm expansion, spend action points equal to the farm expansion's level and pay the resources shown on the top-right of the tile.

Take the faceup farm expansion tile from the display and place it on an empty space (without sheep or another farm expansion) on your farmyard. Some farm expansions can be placed only on spaces with specific terrain (bushes, a tree, or a lake), which is shown on the left of the resource cost. …



Buildings - Storm Surge

Bank: Immediately gain four coins from the supply. At the beginning of the storm surge phase, gain 1 VP for every four of your coins.


Dike Association: Immediately advance your dike point marker three spaces on the dike track. At the beginning of the storm surge phase, advance your dike point marker two spaces for every three dike points you have.

If you reach any progress tokens, do not resolve their effects.


Estate: Immediately build two fences without paying resources. At the beginning of the storm surge phase, gain 3 VP for each of your pastures. …




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