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Assyria: Second Edition

Assyria: Second Edition

Garphill Games · 2025
1–490 min13+ yrs3.0/5 complexity7.7 BGG#5.812 BGG971Strategy
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How do you play Assyria: Second Edition?

Before uniting to become one of history's great empires, the ancient Assyrian people expanded as smaller nomadic tribes along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Here they fished, farmed, and flourished, despite the lingering threat of flooding.

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Assyria: Second Edition box art
official art · Garphill Games

Before uniting to become one of history's great empires, the ancient Assyrian people expanded as smaller nomadic tribes along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Here they fished, farmed, and flourished, despite the lingering threat of flooding. They claimed new land, constructed great ziggurats, and cultivated their influence with surrounding civilizations. Now it's time to bring your offerings and gather your gold! May your feet find favor wherever they go.

The aim of Assyria is to be the player with the most victory points (VP) at game's end. You gain points primarily by building huts and ziggurats, making offerings, and increasing your influence. Each round, players bid for turn order, expand on the map, and take various actions. After the third and sixth rounds, a flood will occur, wiping away everything along the two rivers. After the final flood, the player with the most points wins.

This second edition of Assyria is a redeveloped and redesigned edition of the 2009 release Assyria.

—description from the publisher

🔬 game anatomy
Complexity3.0 / 5
BGG rating7.7 / 10
Vibe
Strategy
Language dependence
Moderate text — a crib sheet helps
Play time
90 min
Players
1–4
Recommended age
13+ yrs
BGG rank
#5.812

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Assyria: Second Edition is a ancient game, for 1–4 players, taking ~90 minutes, featuring auction / bidding. Check the Rules tab for setup, gameplay, and scoring, or ask Trișache anything about Assyria: Second Edition — our AI assistant built by howtoplay.ro and trained specifically on board game rulebooks.
Q4How many players does Assyria: Second Edition support?
Assyria: Second Edition is played by 1–4 players.
Q5How long does a game of Assyria: Second Edition take?
A game of Assyria: Second Edition takes about 90 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is Assyria: Second Edition for?
Assyria: Second Edition is recommended from age 13.
Q7How complex is Assyria: Second Edition?
Assyria: Second Edition has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 3.0 out of 5.
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