Progress and the Nation
Mark Schynert
Development Level: Nearly ReadyStyle: Complex
Type: Board
Length: 3 hrs
Players: 3-5
Progress & the Nation is a late beta test civilization building board game with exploration, expansion, and enhancement, but without player elimination.
The game has short actions, determined in most cases by action selection with following; the player choosing the action gets additional ways to benefit. There are a choice of ten different factions with differing proficiencies; opportunity and boost cards present multiple options to players who draw them; historic personalities present additional synergies, and there are 40 states available to develop, federate, or which can become independent. There are also unique goals which determine how each player can approach the game. The game reaches the ending phase when at least one player reaches victory determination, or when all states have entered play or were discarded from the game, or when any player reaches 20 or more progress tokens in a limited time frame. Resolution is strictly limited to counting victory points at the end of the game, with a tie breaker based on progress tokens and federal tokens.