DEVIR Area control board game QUORUM DEV946229

The Roman Empire stretches across the entire known world. As a senator of this vast empire, will you be able to expand your influence across all its provinces? In Quorum, you’ll play your cards to score points in different fields while also influencing one of the six provinces on the board. The gods will also intervene, granting you their favour (or hindering you) and turning the game on its head. Ready to rule the empire?

The Roman Empire stretches across the entire known world. The expansion of civilization can be seen in every aspect of life, from trade to architecture, as well as the power of the army and political intrigue, while the presence of the gods is evident in the course of human lives. As a senator in this vast empire, will you be able to expand your influence across all its provinces? Designed by Raúl Franco and Fran Martínez and illustrated by Bea Tormo, Quorum is for 2 to 4 players aged 14 and up, and takes around 45 minutes to play. In Quorum, players take on the roles of Roman senators who divide up power in Rome and its provinces in order to gain as much influence as possible. The aim is to become the most powerful and influential senator by earning victory points in the game’s various areas of influence at the end of the twelve rounds. Learning to play Quorum is very easy, but scoring as many points as possible is quite a challenge. Basically, there are two ways to score points: exerting influence in the 6 provinces on the central board, or collecting certain combinations of cards in your personal area. On one side, the cards show a province (and, if played, a player scores points in that province on the central board); on the other, they show 1 of four groups: military, intrigue, architecture and trade, which provide different bonuses depending on each player’s final combination in their personal area. There are also 14 god cards, which affect the provinces’ scoring values on the central map and can turn the game around at any moment. Each player starts with 4 cards in hand; on their turn, they take a card from a shared market and then play a card from their hand into their play area, influencing one of the provinces on the board. Once these two steps have been resolved, the turn passes to the player on their right, and so on until all players have 12 cards in front of them (having each played a total of 12 turns). And how do the cards in the play area score? At the end of the game, military cards score points for each pair or trio with consecutive values; intrigue cards score as many points as the number of intrigue cards multiplied by the number of cards with a value of 3 in the player’s personal area; architecture cards score points for each different card of this type collected by the player; and trade cards score points based on the size of the set of products shown on cards of this type. With plenty of interesting choices to make each turn, Quorum is easy to learn and quick to play, but will put every player’s strategic skills to the test. Is it better to secure the lead in a province or get a specific card to maximise your score? In short, a game worthy of an empire.