Almirante, the Game of Sea Domination, is a

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strategy

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for up to six players. The object of the game is to dominate the center of the seas and of the board. The game was created and is produced by Jogos Almirante, Lda., a company founded in 2014 by young

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Game Play

"Almirante" is Portuguese for "admirals". Each of the 2 to 6 players command both a

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and a war navy with the objective of controlling the

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center of the ocean. Players use winds and coins to build and operate their fleets, with predetermined values of wind necessary to move a fishing boat or a galleon, for example, and coin to build different types of vessels. Both resources, wind and coin, can be traded by paying a conversion fee. Each player also has the ability to use a "god card", which grants extra winds or instantly sink an opponent's ship, for example. The game is over when one fleet has controlled the center of the ocean four times.

References

External links

Almirante official websiteOfficial Facebook page
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News article on official launch (in Portuguese)News article from Revista de Marinha magazine (in Portuguese)
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