Orléans

During medieval Orléans, you must assemble a following of farmers, merchants, knights, monks, etc. to gain supremacy through trade, construction and science in medieval France.

In the city of Orléans, you can take trade trips to other cities to acquire coveted goods and build trading posts. You need followers and their abilities to expand your dominance by putting them to work as traders, builders, and scientists. Knights expand your scope of action and secure your mercantile expeditions. Craftsmen build trading stations and tools to facilitate work. Scholars make progress in science, and last but not least it cannot hurt to get active in monasteries since with monks on your side you are much less likely to fall prey to fate.

In Orléans, you will always want to take more actions than possible, and there are many paths to victory. The challenge is to combine all elements as best as possible with regard to your strategy.

Orléans is the award-winning game that introduced the popular bag-building mechanic!

Orléans: Invasion

Invasion, the first large expansion for Orléans, introduces both a Solo and Co-op mode! Invasion contains 6 scenarios designed by Reiner Stockhausen and Inka & Markus Brand. It also includes a new set of Place Tiles that can be used with or without any of the scenarios.

New Scenarios:

Prosperity: An extensive scenario introducing new Events and a Carpenter that all players may use to build Structures for victory points, designed by Inka and Markus Brand.
Invasion: A cooperative scenario in which players have to work together to fend off an invasion while fulfilling personal objectives, designed by Inka and Markus Brand.
The Duel: A two-player scenario in which both players race to be the first to complete a series of objectives, designed by Reiner Stockhausen.

Single-player Challenges:

The Dignitary: You are an important dignitary trying to gather as many Citizens as possible.
Capital Vierzon: Develop the city of Vierzon to become the capital of its region.
Traveling Salesman: Travel through the country and make important deliveries to faraway cities.

Orléans: Trade & Intrigue

Trade & Intrigue adds new Place Tiles and 4 new modules:

Orders: a new set of cards, each depicting goods and a city – collect the goods and turn them in at the city for victory points
New Events: a completely new set of 34 Hour Glass Tiles from which 18 are semi-randomly chosen for each game
New Beneficial Deeds: a new Beneficial Deeds board providing completely new rewards for sending away your Followers
Intrigue: a new Beneficial Deeds board allowing you to attack and hinder your opponents or even steal from them