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Barony is a board game by Marc André that pits two to four players in a tug-of-war battle over fiefdoms and titles. As a baron, you rule one of the four most influential families of the region. With your knights, you have to claim the richest and most fertile lands, colonize them and above all, defend them against your opponents. Spread your armies out over thirty-six modular territory tiles as you try to climb up through the political ranks and get yourself crowned King.

Featuring rules that are easy to learn, a unique scoring system, and a beautiful landscape that changes from game to game, Barony offers a rich and entertaining foray into medieval politics and battles for players of all skill levels.

Let the Games Begin
Each round in Barony, you get only one action, which you will generally take to either expand your territories or shore them up by recruiting knights or building villages and cities. After all, the need to guard your kingdom is ever-present. Decent land can be scarce, and your opponents will fight to take what's yours! If you're not careful, you'll be driven out to the forests or mountains.

Your goal is to increase the value of your territories so that you can climb through the political ranks, from Baron to Viscount, then Count, Marquis, and Duke. Whenever a player earns the title of Duke, everyone completes the round, and the player with the most points is awarded the title of King.

To get there, you need to master the game's unique scoring system. You score resources by constructing a village or a city upon a territory, or by seizing an opponent's village with your knights. The resources you gain aren't based on the establishment that you create or destroy, however, but on the terrain where it was settled. The rich, fertile farming fields, for example, are worth much more than the stone mountains.

The rounds are short and exciting, and Barony never feels slow. Even so, there are plenty of opportunities at every step for you to outthink your rivals and stay one step ahead of them in the race for the crown.

Explore the Open Land
With its straight-forward rules, Barony stands among the most accessible strategy games in the market. After all, you only take one action each round, and there are only six different actions from which you can choose.

Nonetheless, your games will lead to an ever-changing set of circumstances, and it takes time to master the ways you can best use your actions to build your territory and counter your opponents. When you begin to consider how your moves may change as your territory grows and you consider your opponent's possible actions, you'll see that even with its slim ruleset Barony offers a tremendous depth of strategy and rewards multiple plays.

The road to becoming King is not an easy one. You're going to make some enemies along the way, but with careful planning you might just find yourself wearing the crown.

The Drums of War Are Beating
Not only do Barony and your opponents challenge you with different choices in each of your games, but the board will be constructed differently. Each game offers you a new medieval landscape to explore and battle over. The rolling fields, dense forests, and craggy mountains lie before you, stretching as far as you can see into the horizon.

Don't waste a moment! Strap on your armour and hit the battlefield. The drums of war are beating, and you have a kingdom to claim!

Contents:
* 36 Territory tiles
* 80 Resource tokens
* 112 wooden Pawns (28 knights; 20 cities; 8 strongholds; 56 villages)
* Scoreboard and score counters
* Player Reference sheet and rules

45+ minutes
2 - 4 players
Ages 14+

Before now, Barony had players' minds deeply entrenched in the feudal history of the known world. Decisions about which resources to defend, how far to expand an empire, and when to climb the ranks of nobility never concerned ideas of magic. But soon, players will be forced to rethink their role in Barony with the upcoming Sorcery expansion, adding devastating spells which players will utilize to outmaneuver their desperate rivals.

Barony is an empire building game by Marc André where four power-hungry Barons struggle to grow their dynasty and be crowned king. Taking a single action each round, players will construct dazzling cities, capture critical resources, and earn new ranks of nobility in an attempt to secure the crown for themselves.

With brand new magical powers to harness in Barony Sorcery, players must think outside the box and one step ahead of their opponents. As if that weren't enough, blossoming empires will have trouble finding room to grow as they are introduced to the deadliest threat yet: a fifth competing Baron.

Lay of the Land
New territories add a dynamic new way to play in Barony Sorcery. Alongside the lands and resources over which players previously fought for control, Sorcery adds in new territory tiles, giving players the only means to gather Magic Tokens, the one power capable of casting these new game-changing spells.

Acquiring this new resource won't be easy though, as this invaluable new asset is in short supply. This gives players even more reason to explore neighboring tiles and clash against contesting Barons to expand their kingdom and claim these rare territories. For once the Magic Tokens are gone, they're gone forever, limiting just how much magic one Baron can command.

Weave Your Magic
Spells are a new kind of action players can perform in Barony Sorcery. Instead of only being limited to performing one of Barony's six standard action, Barons will be able to spend Magic Tokens, Sorcery's newest resource, to cast new robust spells and create devastating effects.

Spells in the Sorcery expansion are separated into different schools of magic, each one allowing you to string several similar spells together to create truly powerful combinations. Instead of asking Barons to juggle even more options, these spells exist as enhancements to Barony's original six actions, augmenting previously existing strategies into even more lethal approaches, leaving any Baron foolish enough to oppose you in the dust.

For example, instead of simply moving knights as a standard action, Sorcery lends players the means to cover greater distances with enhanced speed or teleporting armies into previous inaccessible locations. Players are also now given the option to amplify their construction efforts, allowing cities to rise from hazardous lands or increase resource product from others. These are but only a few of the options Barons will have at their disposal.

Deadly Advances
With reality-bending spells now at the fingertips of any Baron bold enough to seek out the means to cast them, the pathway to the crown has never been more difficult or more deadly. Players will need to master these new arcane arts as they vie for the throne and pray they don't lose their head along the way.

• First expansion for the hit Matagot game, Barony
• Adds magic to the game, increasing the potency and variability of the six main actions
• Adds fifth player to the game
• New map tiles add rare magic resource, used to cast spells

Contents:
* 9 Territory tiles
* 20 Resource tokens
* 30 Magic tokens
* 25 Control tokens (5 per player)
* 7 knights
* 5 cities
* 2 strongholds
* 14 villages
* 1 score counter
* 1 Player Reference sheet