Flood transfusion
BARRAGE
Designer: Tommaso Battista & Simone Luciani | Publisher: Cranio Creations
You stand gazing up at the mountain and the tributaries that carve their course like a scar. Others may see beautiful bubbling rivulets, but you see untapped potential, money and power. Barrage transports you to the world of 1920’s industry where rival companies from different countries compete to use the mountain’s natural resources to capture, control and harness the energy of water… and every drop counts.
To produce energy, which you are always striving to do, you need a dam holding water connected to a conduit, which in turn is linked to one of your own powerhouses. You’ll also need engineers (your workers) and a space at the turbine station in which to place them. It’s important to start producing energy as early as possible, because the more energy you produce each round the higher up the energy track you travel, which gains you more credits and allows you to earn valuable victory points. You may use drops in neutral dams (though you’ll have to fight off other players to do so) and you can channel water through opponents’ conduits (though they will greatly benefit), but it’s most satisfying to have your own complete systems.