Cyclades: Legendary Edition

Let the battle begin!

Cyclades Legendary Edition is an iconic cornerstone of the board game world that combines bidding, development and conquest mechanics.

Each player leads their faction to impose their hegemony on the Cyclades isles in the time of a fantasy mythological Greece. Players will place bets to gain the gods favours, hire creatures and heroes to achieve their goals.

Cyclades is an epic, tense and lively game that is easy to understand. Thanks to a smooth and intuitive gameplay, epic actions follow one another at a fast pace. Simple rules and a clear iconography allow for a quick immersion in the game for beginners. Fans of the first edition of Cyclades will rediscover this legendary game with brand new eyes thanks to gameplay modifications and numerous improvements added by its two successful authors.

Prepare your cities, reinforce your Hoplites, manage your Tetradrachms and refine your tactics... bring the unforgiving world of this fantasy mythological Greece to your gaming table.

Highlights

• A Director’s Cut of the game by the 2 world-famous authors : Bruno Cathala & Ludovic Maublanc
• An epic, tense and levelygame that is simple to explain, full of opportunism and interactions
• A territory control game with an everchanging setup thanks to modular board tiles

• A smooth and intuitive gameplay leading to epic actions following one another at a fast pace
• A thrilling auction mechanic that defines players’ actions in the race for their goal
• A Whole New Game

Story

Cyclades Legendary Edition is an iconic cornerstone of the board game world that combines bidding, development and conquest mechanics. 

Each player leads their faction to impose their hegemony on the Cyclades isles in the time of a fantasy mythological Greece. Players will place bets to gain the gods favors, hire creatures and heroes to achieve their goals. 

Cyclades is an epic, tense and lively game that is easy to understand. Thanks to a smooth and intuitive gameplay, epic actions follow one another at a fast pace. Simple rules and a clear iconography allow for a quick immersion in the game for beginners. Fans of the first edition of Cyclades will rediscover this legendary game with brand new eyes thanks to gameplay modifications and numerous improvements added by its two successful authors. 

Prepare your cities, reinforce your Hoplites, manage your Tetradrachms and refine your tactics... bring the unforgiving world of this fantasy mythological Greece to your gaming table.

Highlights

• A Director’s Cut of the game by the 2 world-famous authors : Bruno Cathala & Ludovic Maublanc
• An epic, tense and levelygame that is simple to explain, full of opportunism and interactions
• A territory control game with an everchanging setup thanks to modular board tiles
• A smooth and intuitive gameplay leading to epic actions following one another at a fast pace
• A thrilling auction mechanic that defines players’ actions in the race for their goal

A Whole New Game

More than just an aesthetic facelift, Cyclades Legendary Edition takes the original game to a whole new level. The Director's cut by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc combines the original game and its many expansions into a renewed, more epic, more thrilling gaming experience through an updated gameplay.

Among the major changes :

• ⚙️3 game configurations:
  • A "Classic" mode for 3 to 5 players in which each player defends their own interests
    
  • A "Teamplay" mode for 4 or 6 players, offering the possibility to play as teams of 2, mixing cooperation between teammates and confrontation against opponents.
    
  • An enhanced and improved “2-players” mode
• A modular game board is now built with landscape tiles assembled by the players during the setup of the game, allowing for everchanging maps and game strategies, bringing a constantly renewed gaming experience
• 🙏6 gods instead of the 5 originals are now available, increasing players variety of actions
• 🛠️New free mandatory construction actions for the gods that considerably speed up the overall game time and the interaction between players
• ⚔️Mercenaries, a new unit that comes with the new goddess: Hera, who enforces your troops during battles.
• 🐍New Creatures and Heroes are now available in the base game and have been reworked to offer new strategic opportunities in building metropolises and gaining decisive advantages on the battlefield.
• 💰Shorter and more dynamic bidding phases thanks to a new exponential bidding scale.
• 🏙️The new metropolis system provides for bonuses that will boost your assets.
• 🎨All gaming elements and illustrations have been redesigned by the original artist Miguel Coimbra.