If you already love Cities by Devir Games, then this City Achievement Boards + Theaters Expansion introduces a greater variety of shared goals for city building each game with the addition of 11 new double-sided boards, adding 22 more cities across12 different countries. For example, when building in Beijing, China, you might create 3 water space areas with at least 2 spaces each or build a Forbidden City which is an area of exactly 3 city spaces that are completely surrounded on all sides by park and/or water spaces and have 2 buildings that are at least 2 stories high. As the goals become more varied and specific, there is an increased challenge to this game!
The other feature offered is a mini-expansion called Theaters which consists of four different colored theater tokens used in two different ways during the game. To gain one of the theater tokens, when you take tiles from the feature tile row during your turn, you may discard either a monument or special feature tile to take a theater from the supply instead with a limit of 1 theater token per game and place it on a city space on your city board.
Theater tokens are used in one of two ways to gain game-end points:
- Score 1 point for each building in the same row and/or column as the theater token that matches the theater’s color. The colors are red, yellow, blue or green
- When using the Rome or Santiago city board for a game, one of their three shared goals for that game include specific theater placement criteria. For example, in Santiago players receive points for having a theatre tile adjacent to 2 feature tiles.