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Hello, I'm Roland from Kronberger Spiele. I'd like to introduce our newest Spieleschmiede project to you - Nord.

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Maybe some people will still remember Kronberger Spiele and myself. 10 years ago

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my brother in law Tobias and I published three games about diamonds.

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For a year now my oldest son Jonny has been designing games with me.

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Through our experimentation we discovered an interesting mechanic.

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It revolves around placing workers, and these workers will provide resources.

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But they can only do this if you've previously sacrificed a worker of the same type.

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It results in a dynamic, interactive, fast and flexible game.

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Dynamic, because the situation on the board is constantly changing.

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Interactive, because each turn you can both use the workers of your opponents, while simultaneously playing against them.

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Fast, because you'll only place 2-3 workers on your turn,

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and the game can finish in 30 minutes.

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Flexible, because a modular board layout will always result in a new island landscape,

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which you'll need to alter your game plan to react to.

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Nord offers not only tactical options, to gain the advantage over your opponents in the short-term,

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but also long-term strategies that can be followed.

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Players can either try to provide resources to as many settlements as possible, 

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or to have as many warriors in each settlement as possible, 

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or to collect treasures of the same type.

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As a game Nord has evolved from a friendly game about trade routes and connections, 

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into a war game with majorities and areas of control.

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Thematically, the game is about the battle of viking hordes in the far north.

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Graphically the game portrays the deep fjords and rugged mountains of an island landscape.

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After many, many tests, and tweaking of resource valuations and combat rules 

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we're excited and proud to be able to present Nord to you now.

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And we hope that in the future the game will be able to bring you as much enjoyment as it's brought us.

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Serious gamers, who enjoy games like Vinci or Tigris and Euphrates

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really should take a look and join in!