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 er et Euro-brætspil med et meget amerikansk tema: rekruttering af college-fodbold.
Spillere optræder som rivaliserende college-programmer og gør deres bedste for at tiltrække de mest værdifulde gymnasieelever til at slutte sig til deres college-hold.
Spillet er drevet af en kortudkast, hvor spillerne får potentialet til at ansætte nyt personale, bygge nye faciliteter, styrke deres programkultur eller booste deres fundraising-evner, men for rent faktisk at sætte disse kort i spil, skal de generere indtægter via omhyggeligt udvalg af 6 forskelligt farvede terninger, som kastes i starten af hver tur.
Disse terninger genererer den mest værdifulde valuta i spillet - Envelopes of Cash - som bruges til at lokke atleterne til dit program.
For at lykkes skal du balancere fordelene ved dine kort, hvilket gør rekruttering nemmere, med møtrikker og bolte for rent faktisk at komme derud og rekruttere, ved at sende masser af rekrutteringsmail, rejse for at besøge atleterne i deres hjemstater og de fleste vigtigere, at smide dem de værdifulde tegn på din hengivenhed i små farvede kuverter.
Du har kun 12 måneder til at samle så mange forskellige rekrutter på tværs af en række fodboldpositioner (som QB, LB osv.), så spændingen mellem mindre indkomst nu vs.
mere indkomst spiller senere en rolle i udformningen af din strategi.
Skal du springe ud til en hurtig start og få de bedste rekrutter før dine modstandere, eller skal du opbygge en stor stash af konvolutter med kontanter og have en stor blow out-måned mod slutningen af året.
Eller kan du bygge en strategi mere omkring dit personale og din kultur, forvandle deres særlige evner til en sejrspointmotor og overlade den uvorne forretning med bestikkelse til andre?
Envelopes of Cash giver dig mulighed for at være cheftræner for et stort fodboldprogram og arbejde tæt sammen med dine taskemænd for at sikre, at du kommer ud i toppen i kapløbet om flest rekrutteringspoint.
Med 120 forskellige kort og en anden blanding af rekrutter på tværs af regioner hver gang, byder spillet på høj gentagelsesværdi, især da der er mange forskellige måder at bygge et succesfuldt program på, der giver point.
En tutorial er tilgængelig for spillet, og du kan hurtigt tilmelde dig et bord ved at klikke på linket nedenfor til spilsiden:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga~...~opesofcash
Vi vil elske at takke Andy Schwarz, spildesigneren, samt Enveloped of Cash LLC, og udviklerne af dette spil: Kayvon og Mogri.
Hvilket er noget af et kvalitetsstempel nu.
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