Grand Austria Hotel – Luxury in cubes
Lovers of German and Eurogames, today we are in imperial Vienna at the end of the 20th century, where thanks to Grand Hotel Austria – reissue of the title of Simone Luciani and Virginio Gigli and published by Asmodee Italy – resources to satisfy our management desire thanks to this beautiful game. Get your uniform ready, it’s time to satisfy customers!
Review
In Grand Hotel Austria we impersonate Viennese hoteliers, all looking for victory in this race between luxury hotels. We will have to Emperor in fact satisfy the wishes of our customers in order to improve our reputation to the stars, trying to ingratiate ourselves with the emperor too. Only then will we become the best hoteliers in Austria!
Mechanics
Grand Hotel Austria is, as I mentioned, a German / Eurogame which is mainly based on the management of resources, using the cards for various purposes. However, there is a great deal of risk: in fact, to carry out the actions, we will have to roll a large number of dice – variable based on the number of players, from 2 to 4 – and then we will divide the results based on the faces that came out after the shot. By grouping all the faces with the same value we will thus determine the strength of the corresponding action. What if you don’t like anything? No problem, players will be able to fold and reroll the dice, “burning” one.
The actions are different, mainly based on the accumulation of resources that we will need rooms to serve customers at the bar, where they wait to be served in order to enter the. We can then “to buy“The rooms just to host more and more people, get money or favor from the emperor – useful for getting extra victory points – or hire members of the personal. We will need these cards to get bonuses during the game, some disposable, others perennial. It will be important to have a good staff in order to have a fundamental advantage against other players, and of course I invite you to look for the best synergies between guests, staff and actions. Finally you will also be to be an action of the previous ones, since you have only six of all the players available and maybe someone may have stolen what you needed, or they could have the “right” strength for your project.
Every round – to be precise at the end of 3-5-7, there will be a check of count of the emperor, where depending on how much favor you have accumulated – or not – you will have rewards or penalties. I suggest you not to underestimate this aspect, as it could mess up your plans in case of dithiness! The game will then end with the calculation of points than from the staff, from the rooms occupied, from food, drinks and accumulated money and from the emperor’s layout. May whoever knows how to manage his hotel in the best possible way win!
Components
Grand Hotel Austria it is relative spartan in its components, but all the dies and cards that you will find in the package are of good workmanship. A mention goes to the designs of Clemente Franz that totally immerse us in the atmosphere of an “Austrian German”, with a pleasant and clear style, despite the large number of icons to be taken into consideration. Important note: to help those who have difficulty with colors, there are also logos that help to better understand what to do. Optimal!
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Price
Grand Hotel Austria is available at the recommended price of € 55.99.
In conclusion
Grand Austria Hotel is a nice German, flowing well and giving players lots of possibilities. I do not consider it a “point salad”, on the contrary, here the management of resources and the synergies between cards they are the masters, giving depth and strategy to the game. Compared to the previous edition, there have been improvements in editing and translation, and finally this will no longer be an “unobtainable” title… the touts of the gdt are warned!
Nerdando in short
In Grand Hotel Austria we will have to build the best hotel in Vienna, thanks to this German management of resources and synergies between cards.
We thank Asmodee Italy for the copy of Grand Austria Hotel which was used for this review.
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