Trajan is a
board game
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designed by
Stefan Feld and first introduced in 2011 by German publisher ''Ammonit Spieleverlag''. The game takes place in
ancient Rome
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where players try to seize opportunities in business and politics to advance their personal status. It features a
mancala
The mancala games are a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some ...
-style mechanism that each player uses to select an action on each turn.
Gameplay Overview
The game is set in 110AD with players trying to score victory points in a series of six different "tactical facilities" determined by the mancala-style mechanism. Each section of the mancala determines an action the player may take in its respective area. An additional 'Trajan' tile sits aside every section of the mancala that may be claimed should its conditions be met, gaining the player victory points and a special ability.
[https://www.fgbradleys.com/rules/rules3/Trajanrules.pdf ]
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Board games introduced in 2011
Multiplayer games
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