Land vs Sea (ENG)

Land vs Sea is a beautiful 2, 3, and 4 player tile laying game where you take turns placing tiles to build a map of land and sea areas filled with delightful details from historic cartography. This is a fresh take on tile laying games with intriguing and innovative components, simple gameplay with surprising depth, and optional extra scoring layers that add strategy as desired.

Australian designer-artist Jon-Paul Jacques has made a labour of love rich with whimsical and enticing art. Players explore and score a medieval map filled with marginalia from historic cartography from around the world. Eagle-eyed players will be rewarded as they browse the tiles for even more hidden details. 
Like other good tile laying games Land vs Sea is an aesthetic pleasure to play, but it brings some refreshing innovation, tension, and agency with its double-sided hex map tiles.

Features:

• Easy to learn core gameplay suitable for new or lighter gamers, to get them playing fast.
• Scoring that starts simple but goes deep – Land players must complete land areas for 1 point per tile, and likewise for Sea players with sea areas, with players vying for bonus points along the way. But every tile you add to the map is an opportunity for your rivals to score from too.
• Double-sided map tiles. One side is public and the other is for your eyes only - creating a unique puzzle game filled with options, agency, and surprise moments.
• Optional scoring layers that activate art on the tiles to score for you in different ways, adding depth and strategy for experienced gamers.
• 3 Different player modes for 2, 3 and 4 players

• 2 players - play head to head as Land vs Sea, shaping your rival’s moves while completing your own areas.
• 4 players - do the same, but with teams: 2 land players vs 2 sea players... with an added wrinkle of limiting all communication to hinting ideal plays to your partner by placing bonus-point scoring Waypoint tokens on the map, while trying to disrupt your rival team’s signalled plans. This communication limit intensifies the team play aspect of the game while stopping alpha gamers playing for their partners.
• 3 players - experienced players can add the Cartographer player for an asymmetric game. They score mainly by connecting Mountain & Coral sections of tiles, and at the end of the game by ensuring there are even counts of Caravans and Ships in trade routes, and finally by helping players complete areas to score their bonus points for themselves. This intriguing asymmetric mode leads to all sorts of shifting alliances as trailing players work together to catch the leading player.

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