Board Game Review - Clans of Caledonia - An economic strategy boardgame set in 19th-Century Scotland
Channel: Tabletop Bellhop
Date: 2020-05-08

This is a video review of the hobby boardgame Clans of Caledonia, a game about whisky, trade, and glory! In this economic game for 1 to 4 players, you take on the role of one of many Scottish Clans in 19th-Century Scotland and work to improve Scotland through trade and export. Clans of Caledonia was designed by Juma Al-JouJou and features art from Klemens Franz. It was Kickstarted in 2017 (funded in under three hours) and published in North America by Karma Games. Since being published it has been nominated for seven awards, including the Golden Geek Best Strategy Game and Golden Geek Game of the Year, but has so far failed to win any of them.  

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From the publishers

In the 19th century, Scotland made the transition from an agricultural to an industrialized country that heavily relied on trade and export. In the following, the 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 nine historic clans with unique abilities and compete to produce, trade and export agricultural goods and of course whisky!

Clans of Caledonia is a midweight economic game that is set in 19th-century Scotland.

The game was crowdfunded on Kickstarter at more than $400,000 in 2017. It is already among the top 35 strategy board games of all time on Boardgamegeek !

What people love about Clans of Caledonia:

rules are elegant and easy to learn
strategic depth is high
interaction between players is solid
replayability with 9 clans and a modular board is tremendous
artwork is lovely and the game comes with plenty of realistic wooden tokens
The game contains both a German and an English rulebook.

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Written review: https://tabletopbellhop.com/game-reviews/clans-of-caledonia/
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