Maharaja is a new edition of the classic game by the authors Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling. In this new version of the game which supports 1 to 4 players and is enriched with new graphics and components, you build statues of your God of reference to please the Maharaja during their visit and score victory points at the end of the game depending on the majority you reach.
During the game, players take the role of priests who travel to different cities in India, building statues and shrines dedicated to their favorite Gods to expand their worship. To do so, they are assisted by several characters with different abilities. Every year, the Maharaja, the great king of India, will change his residence and players will receive rewards according to their Gods' worship value. At the beginning of each year, players plan their actions in a secret phase to be played simultaneously.
At the end of the seventh year or when a player builds their seventh statue, the game ends, then the player with most prestige wins.
Aside from the new graphics and components and from players now building statues instead of palaces, this new edition of Maharaja includes new characters to use during the turn that change turn order, additional ways to earn victory points, an additional bonus each time you score a city after the Maharaja's visit depending on the assistant you chose, and additional modular rules that can be added during the game and in the final scoring.
Maharaja is an area control game for 2-4 players. The original version of Maharaja was a rush to build palaces; in the new edition there are several ways to earn victory points, so building the most palaces (now statues) is not the only objective of the game.
The character tiles indicate turn order and give different and unique abilities to the player. They are drafted at the beginning of the game and can be switched with a specific action during the game. Our new edition has more characters to play with, and even more can be unlocked with a stretch goal.
The same thing will happen with bonus tiles and final scoring tiles. All those new tiles will garantee great variability to each game.
The graphics of the game have completely been redone by Klemens Franz and will astonish you. The gameboard is now A1 paper size and your journey to India will be amazing! The statues to build are wooden components, that can be upgraded unlocking stretch goal to become fantastic miniatures.
Contains:
* 1 City Map
* 7 City Flags
* 8 Reward Tiles
* 1 Maharani Token
* 16 Character Tiles
* Prestige and Coins tokens
* 1 Maharaja
* 7 Action Tokens
* 4 Action Discs
* 80 Shrines
* 28 Statues
* 4 Priests
* 4 Player Boards
* 1 Rulebook
1–4 Players
90 Min
Playing Time
Age: 14+