What makes the buildings so interesting is that the player who pays to place a new building becomes the owner and whenever the building location is utilised by another player the owner will gain something, be it money or new recruits. It is these building which not only add a level of strategy to the game but also increase both the variance between each game as well as providing new and more powerful locations for your workers. In Lords of Waterdeep the locations that start available for you are reasonably standard fare, recruit specific adventurers to your tavern, these people will be the main requirement to complete your quests, gain money, additional quests or intrigue cards which can be played for one time bonuses and finally build additional locations on the map. Once a worker has been placed on a location it is no longer available until the start of the next round and as such not only are you trying to optimise your own turn, you are competing with your opponents for key locations you all need. A game will take place over 8 rounds by which point the player who has amassed the most number of victory points from completing quests, recruiting adventurers to your tavern, amassing a fortune and gaining bonus points for completing specific quests based on your hidden Lord card will win the game.Ī round in Lords of Waterdeep follows the same tried and tested path for all worker placement games, players take turn in placing one of their limited supply of workers onto various locations on the map and take the relevant action. Lords of Waterdeep is a classic worker placement game that sees players take on the role of Lords in a town of Waterdeep who’s aim is to complete quests, gain victory points and ultimately be crowned the Lord of Waterdeep.

Is this classic worker placement game deep enough to lord it over the competition?

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