Altiplano (Renegade Game Studios)

Designer	Reiner Stockhausen
Publisher	Renegade Game Studios
Players	2-5
Playtime	60-120 mins
Suggested Age	12 and up
Accessories	Gaming Trunk - Alpaca Organizer for Altiplano Laserox - Alpaca Storage (Compatible with Altiplano) Folded Space - Altiplano & The Traveler The Dicetroyers - Altiplano + The Traveler Expansion (Italy Import)
Expansions	Altiplano: The Traveler   Level Up Loot 2
Honors	2018 International Gamers Award - General Strategy: Multi-player Nominee 2018 Cardboard Republic Architect Laurel Nominee 2017 Meeples' Choice Nominee
Additional Info	234487/altiplano http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/234487/altiplano/forums/63

Altiplano, a bag-building game along the lines of Orléans set in the South American highlands of the Andes — the Altiplano — is not a simple game, presenting players with new challenges time and again. There are various ways to reach the goal, so the game remains appealing to try out new options and strategies, but success or failure also depends on whether your opponents let you do as you like or thwart the strategy you are pursuing. The competition for the individual types of goods is considerable — as is the fun in snatching a coveted extension card from under another player's nose!

Aside from building up an effective production, you must deliver the right goods at the right time, develop the road in good time, and store your goods cleverly enough to fill the most valuable rows with them. Often, a good warehouseperson is more relevant in the end than the best producer.

At the start of the game, players have access only to certain resources and goods. This is due to the different role tiles that each player receives and that provide everybody with different starting materials. At the market, however, a player can acquire additional production sites that give new options. The numerous goods — such as fish, alpaca, cacao, silver, or corn — all have their own characteristics and places where they can be used. Whereas silver makes you rich, fish can be exchanged for other goods, and the alpaca gives you wool that you can then make into cloth.