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Guilds of London, Surprised Stare Games/Tasty Minstrel Games, 2016 — front cover (image provided by the publisher)
3 players game
First cat in a Guilds of London box lid picture
Game being demo'ed at UKGE2015
Mid way through two player game
Designer Tony Boydell with the Guild of London @ Spiel '16 in Essen
Bloody brilliant game - literally!
Finish of a 3p game. Game is PnP'ed with near final artwork provided by the designer. The pawns are borrowed from Snowdonia.

Guilds of London (2016)

Players
1–4
Best: 4
Playing time
45–90 min
Age
10+
6.73
Average rating
2,408
Ratings
3.07/5
Weight
#2636
BGG rank
Top 5,000
Alternate names:Gildie Londynu +2 more
Designer:Tony Boydell
Artist:Tony Boydell, Klemens Franz, Charlie Paull, Pedro Soto
Publisher:Surprised Stare Games Ltd +5 more
Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).
Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 6.1, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity6.1
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

MedievalModular BoardHand ManagementArea Majority / Influence

Overview

London: The biggest, most important and richest city in England in the late medieval and early modern periods.

The Guilds played a major role in the lives of London's citizens, controlling the way in which trade, manufacturing and business was conducted in the city. The members of the guilds were rich men, who were appointed to the most influential positions in the community and wielded immense civic power. The chief representative of the Guilds became the Lord Mayor of London, and the leading delegates of the Guilds became his Aldermen. Other members of the Guilds were the burghers of London. The Guilds ran the city and controlled its commerce; each had its own Hall and its own Coat of Arms. Representatives of the Guilds met at the Guildhall to discuss the great issues of the day.

In Guilds of London, you place your liverymen in strategic Guilds, building your power base, so that you can achieve the status of Master in many of them. You also have the opportunity to spread your power into the commercially valuable Ulster or Virginia plantations. Control of each Guild provides victory points and additional actions that you can exploit, so that you can control the future development of the city.

Expansions

Brettspiel Adventskalender 2016
Guilds of London: New Guilds – Cheese- and Papermakers
Guilds of London: Solo Rules
Guilds of London: The Secret Guild of Guildsmen
Brettspiel Adventskalender 2017
Guilds of London: Guild of Snowmen
Guilds of London: Wards of London
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