Iberia cover
2016BGG rank #160

Iberia

by Jesús Torres Castro, Matt Leacock · Z-Man Games

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Players2–5
Time45m
ComplexityMedium-Light
Age8+

About the game

What is Iberia?

Welcome to the Iberian Peninsula! Set in 1848, Pandemic Iberia asks you to take on the roles of nurse, railwayman, rural doctor, sailor, and more to find the cures to malaria, typhus, the yellow fever, and cholera. From Barcelona to Lisboa, you will need to travel by carriage, by boat, or by train to help the Iberian populace. While doing so, distributing purified water and developing railways will help you slow the spread of diseases in this new version of Pandemic. Discover a unique part of the world during a historically significant time period: the construction of the first railroad in the Iberian Peninsula during the Spring of Nations. The game comes with two variants that can be added : Influx of Patients : the cubes, representing patients, will tend to flock to hospitals to try to get cured. Hospitals also are a bit more powerful. Historical Diseases : instead of being generic, each disease has a specific power to better represent what it is (Malaria, Cholera, Yellow Fever etc.) Part of the Pandemic series.

How it plays

Mechanics

Action PointsCooperative GameHand ManagementNetwork and Route BuildingPoint to Point MovementSet CollectionSolo / Solitaire GameTradingVariable Player Powers

On the shelf

Categories

MedicalPost-NapoleonicTrains

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