Guilds of London

In Guilds of London you place your liverymen in strategic guilds to build a power base in medieval and early modern London. The guilds ran the city: they controlled trade, manufacturing and business, each had its own hall and coat of arms, and their representatives met at the Guildhall to settle the great issues. Their chief representative became the Lord Mayor, their leaders the Aldermen. In the game, you play cards to put liverymen into the modular board's guilds and fight for majorities, aiming to climb to the top. It is a mid-heavy area-majority game for one to four, solo included, about ninety minutes, and it plays like a political tug-of-war with merchants in fancy hats.