Clans of Caledonia

Clans of Caledonia is a mid-to-heavy economic game set in 19th-century Scotland. At this time, Scotland made the transition from an agricultural to an industrialized country that heavily relied on trade and export. In the following years, food production increased significantly to feed the population growth. Linen was increasingly substituted by the cheaper cotton and raising sheep was given high importance. More and more distilleries were founded and whisky became the premium alcoholic beverage in Europe.

Players represent historic clans with unique abilities and compete to produce, trade and export agricultural goods and of course whisky!

The game ends after five rounds. Each round consists of the three phases:

1. Players’ turns
2. Production phase
3. Round scoring

1. Players take turns and do one of eight possible actions, from building, to upgrading, trading and exporting. When players run out of money, they pass and collect a passing bonus.

2. In the production phase, each player collects basic resources, refined goods and cash from their production units built on the game map. Each production unit built makes income visible on the player mat. Refined goods require the respective basic resource.

3. Players receive VPs depending on the scoring tile of the current round.

The game comes with eight different clans, a modular board with 16 configurations, eight port bonuses and eight round scoring tiles.

• Primary Name
  Clans of Caledonia
• Alternate Names
  Clan di Caledonia

  Clanes de Caledonia

  Clãs da Caledônia

  Klany Kaledonii

  Кланы Каледонии

  クランズ・オブ・カレドニア

  클랜 오브 칼레도니아
• Year Released
  2017
• Designer
  Juma Al-JouJou
• Artist
  Klemens Franz
• Publishers
  Karma Games

  BoardM Factory

  CrowD Games

  Czacha Games

  Gen-X Games

  MeepleBR

  Pixie Games

  Red Glove

  TLAMA games

  テンデイズゲームズ(TendaysGames)
• Editor
  Dan Cunningham
• Categories
  Economic

  Farming
• Mechanisms
  Commodity Speculation

  Contracts

  Market

  Modular Board

  Network and Route Building

  Solo / Solitaire Game

  Turn Order: Pass Order

  Variable Player Powers
• Family
  Animals: Cattle / Cows

  Animals: Sheep

  Components: Control Boards

  Components: Wooden pieces & boards

  Country: Scotland

  Crowdfunding: Kickstarter

  Crowdfunding: zagramw.to

  Digital Implementations: Board Game Arena

  Digital Implementations: Tabletopia

  Players: Games with Solitaire Rules

Boards:

• 4 map modules
• 1 market board
• 1 export board
• 4 player boards

Tiles:

• 4 export box tiles
• 9 clan tiles
• 4 glory tiles
• 8 technology tiles
• 1 MacDonald tile
• 9 port bonus tiles
• 50 export contract tiles
• 9 scoring tiles
• 9 starting tiles
• 12 goods tiles
• 70 coins

wood:

• 10 milk
• 14 wool
• 10 cheese
• 10 bread
• 10 grain
• 10 whisky
• cotton
• tobacco
• sugar cane

In 4 players colors:

• 16 cows
• 16 sheeps
• 16 bakieries
• 16 fields
• 16 istilleries
• 16 Cheese Dairies
• 32 workers
• 28 merchants
• 4 shipping tokens
• 4 turn order tokens
• 4 glory tokens
• 4 settlements
• 16 port bonud marker tiles

1 Rulebook

• 2019 MinD-Spielepreis Complex Game Winner
• 2019 MinD-Spielepreis Complex Game Nominee
• 2018 Tric Trac Nominee
• 2018 Jogo do Ano Nominee
• 2018 International Gamers Award – General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee
• 2017 Swiss Gamers Award Nominee
• 2017 Meeples’ Choice Nominee
• 2017 Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Nominee
• 2017 Golden Geek Best Strategy Board Game Nominee
• 2017 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee
• 2017 Board Game Quest Awards Game of the Year Winner
• 2017 Board Game Quest Awards Game of the Year Nominee
• 2017 Board Game Quest Awards Best Strategy/Euro Game Nominee
• 2017 Board Game Quest Awards Best Game from a Small Publisher Nominee