Formosa Tea (2nd Ed)
Game Overview
The sub-tropical climate and environment in Taiwan make the island highly suitable for cultivating top-quality tea. But it wasn't until the 19th century after English businessman John Dodd discovered some amazing Oolong tea there that the Taiwanese tea business truly began to bloom and "Formosa Tea" became world-renowned.
In Formosa Tea, players are tea farm owners competing to harvest the best tea leaves, improve their tea processing techniques, and produce tea of the highest quality for not only the domestic market but also for the international market. With the unique worker placement and worker advancement mechanisms, along with the tea dehydration and scenting processing, players must use their workers wisely to make the best tea in the market.
A game of Formosa Tea is played over four rounds. In each round, players take turns to perform one of the five possible actions:
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Send a worker to harvest tea leaves
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Send a worker to a tea factory to process tea leaves
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Retrieve a worker from the tea factory after tea processing is completed
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Send a worker to sell tea in the domestic market
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Send a worker to sell tea to international merchants.
After the end of the game, the player who has the most prestige points wins!
The Tea Leaf mini-expansion is the first expansion introduced in Formosa Tea. You will be able to cultivate different types of tea trees to improve the quality of your tea further! You can also apply the Domestic Market tiles on the market track to explore more diversified strategies in the game! More details are explained in the Kickstarter Update #11 (Link).
Components in the mini-expansion:
- Tea Tree cards x6
- Tea Tree tokens x 12
- Domestic Market tiles x4
For the owners of the 1st Edition, you can update your copy with the "Upgrade Pack"!
The components in the package:
- A sticker to cover the International Market action space
- A new Weather tile
- Revised Tech tokens
- 46 revised cards (Merchant, Character, and Event)
- 24 extra tea cubes
- 3 Character cards and 3 Event cards unlocked in this campaign
- A rules sheet of updated rules highlights
IMPORTANT NOTE: To make the Upgrade Pack financially doable and friendly in shipping costs, the rulebook and KS-unlocked "enlarged player boards won't be included. Please download the rules online and use the original player boards in your copy. We're sorry about the "partial upgrade" but this can prevent us from taking too much risk of manufacturing the pack without knowing the actual demands.
Game Basics
Designer: Chu-Lan Kao
Artist: Sammixyz, Huang Yu Wen
Publisher: Soso Studio
Players: 2-4
Time: 60-90 min
Age: 12+
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