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You may have already caught some of the under-the-radar buzz about CGE’s use of RE-Wood components in our upcoming Essen Spiel release, Kutná Hora: The City of Silver. It’s the first modern board game of its kind to make use of these unique eco-friendly materials. Gen Con was also the first time we were able…
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Mining was an essential part of the city ecosystem in Kutná Hora, and the city might not exist today without having brave miners who were willing to harvest ore to smelt into silver. It was a dangerous job that paid extremely well, considering the risks involved of delving far underground in narrow tunnels to dig…
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Adding in more layers of replayability, and giving players the opportunity to make choices that can unlock surprises, is an important piece of the puzzle in the upcoming expansion. That’s where the all-new meta game elements come in. They introduce more weight to the choices you make as you navigate story cards and other objectives…
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Each of the two new leaders we previously introduced brings a fresh, unique new play style to the table, but they’re also only a portion of the exciting content you’ll find in this upcoming expansion. Let’s take a look at the behind-the-scenes process of developing and broadening the story-driven campaign, shall we?
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Though there are multiple ways to score and create combos in Kutná Hora: The City of Silver, a big focus of the game—both thematically and mechanically—hinges on how well you build out the city itself. At the start of the game, the city’s infrastructure is empty, but it will gradually begin to fill up over time,…
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A lot of classic euros tend to skew towards players plotting out and executing their own plans each turn, without much interaction or connection between what they’re doing and what their opponents are doing. That’s not necessarily a bad thing of course, but the designers behind Kutná Hora: The City of Silver wanted to create a very…