Envelopes of Cash is a Euro board game with a very American theme: college football recruiting. Players square off as rival college programs, doing their best to attract the most valuable high schoolers to join their college teams.
Game play is driven by a card draft, in which players acquire the potential to hire new personnel, build new facilities, strengthen their program's culture, or boost their fundraising prowess, but to actually put those cards into play, they need to generate income via careful selection of 6 differently colored dice, which are rolled at the start of each turn. Those dice generate the most valuable currency in the game -- Envelopes of Cash -- which are used to lure the athletes to your program. To succeed, you need to balance the benefits of your cards, which makes recruiting easier, with the nuts and bolts of actually getting out there and recruiting, by sending lots of recruiting mail, traveling to visit the athletes in their home states, and most importantly, slipping them those valuable tokens of your affection in little colored envelopes.
You only have 12 months to gather as many different recruits across a variety of football positions (like QB, LB, etc.), so the tension between less income now vs. more income later plays a role in shaping your strategy. Should you jump out to a quick start and get the best recruits before your opponents, or should you build up a big stash of envelopes of cash and have a major blow out month towards the end of the year. Or can you build a strategy more around your personnel and culture, turning their special abilities into a victory point engine and leave the grubby business of bribes to others?
Envelopes of Cash lets you be the head coach of a major football program, working closely with your bag men to make sure you come out on top in the race for the most recruiting points. With 120 different cards and a different mix of recruits across regions each time, the game offers high replay value, especially since there are many different ways to build a successful program that churns out points.
A tutorial is available for the game, and you can join a table quickly by clicking the link below to the game page:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga ... opesofcash
We would love to thanks Andy Schwarz, the game designer, as well as Enveloped of Cash LLC, and the developers of this game: Kayvon and Mogri. Which is kind of a seal of quality now. Try it!
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Envelopes of Cash je evropska družabna igra z zelo ameriško tematiko: novačenje v univerzitetnem nogometu.
Igralci se spopadejo s konkurenčnimi univerzitetnimi programi in se po svojih najboljših močeh trudijo pritegniti najvrednejše srednješolce, da se pridružijo njihovim študentskim ekipam.
Igro poganja osnutek kart, v katerem igralci pridobijo potencial za najemanje novega osebja, gradnjo novih objektov, krepitev kulture svojega programa ali povečanje sposobnosti zbiranja sredstev, a da bi te karte dejansko dali v igro, morajo ustvariti dohodek prek skrbna izbira 6 različno obarvanih kock, ki se vržejo na začetku vsakega kroga.
Te kocke ustvarjajo najdragocenejšo valuto v igri -- ovojnice denarja -- ki se uporabljajo za privabljanje športnikov v vaš program.
Če želite uspeti, morate uravnotežiti prednosti svojih kartic, ki poenostavljajo zaposlovanje, z glavnimi stvarmi, ki jih prinaša dejansko iskanje kadrov, pošiljanje veliko pošte za zaposlovanje, potovanje na obisk športnikov v njihove domače države in večina pomembno je, da jim v majhnih barvnih ovojnicah vstavite tiste dragocene znake vaše naklonjenosti.
Imate samo 12 mesecev, da zberete čim več različnih novincev na različnih nogometnih položajih (kot so QB, LB itd.), tako da je napetost med manjšim dohodkom zdaj in
večji dohodek pozneje igra vlogo pri oblikovanju vaše strategije.
Ali bi morali hitro začeti in pridobiti najboljše rekrute pred svojimi nasprotniki, ali pa bi morali ustvariti veliko zalogo kuvert denarja in imeti velik izpraznjen mesec proti koncu leta.
Ali pa lahko zgradite strategijo bolj okoli svojega osebja in kulture ter njihove posebne sposobnosti spremenite v motor zmagovalnih točk in prepustite umazan posel s podkupovanjem drugim?
Envelopes of Cash vam omogoča, da postanete glavni trener velikega nogometnega programa in tesno sodelujete s svojimi možmi, da zagotovite, da boste na prvem mestu v tekmi za največ nabornih točk.
S 120 različnimi kartami in vsakokrat drugačno kombinacijo rekrutov po regijah ponuja igra visoko vrednost ponovnega igranja, zlasti ker obstaja veliko različnih načinov za izgradnjo uspešnega programa, ki prinaša točke.
Za igro je na voljo vadnica, mizi pa se lahko hitro pridružite tako, da kliknete spodnjo povezavo do strani igre:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga~...~opesofcash
Radi bi se zahvalili Andyju Schwarzu, oblikovalcu igre, kot tudi podjetju Enveloped of Cash LLC in razvijalcema te igre: Kayvonu in Mogriju.
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