Description

Build your Roman colony in the Mediterranean, trade and engage with the Great Harbor of Carthage, construct mighty ships to fight the Cilician pirates in this dice drafting, worker placement game for 2-4 players!

In The Great Harbor, you play as a powerful Roman governor of a Mediterranean colony. The game is played over multiple rounds where players will draft dice from a common dice pool, and will use those dice as workers to place them on the tiles of the Great Harbor to play the corresponding actions. In order to place a die on a certain slot, the die must match the color with the slot of the tile. The die power (ranging from 1 to 6) will determine the strength of your action on that tile. Once someone places a die on a slot, that slot is taken and no other dice may be placed there until the end of the round.

The actions that can be played include: gaining resources that are important for shipbuilding, scheduling workers to work on building the ships, increasing your colony capacity to dock ships, sending your ships to patrol the Mediterranean and be on the lookout for pirates, hire special workers and diplomats and more.

The game ends is triggered when a player constructs a certain amount of ships in their fleet, after which all players will take equal amount of turns to end the game. Victory points from the constructed ships, pirates, resources and objectives are then calculated and the player with the most points is the winner of the game and proclaimed the most powerful governor of the Mediterranean!

—description from the publisher