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The Great Harbor

The Great Harbor

Archona Games · 2026
1–445–120 min13+ yrs7.5 BGG19
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Build your Roman colony in the Mediterranean, trade and engage with the Great Harbor of Carthage, construct mighty trading ships to trade with the cities along the Mediterranean, and fight the Cilician pirates in this dice drafting, worker placement game for 2-4 players!

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Build your Roman colony in the Mediterranean, trade and engage with the Great Harbor of Carthage, construct mighty trading ships to trade with the cities along the Mediterranean, and 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 of 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 and population, sending your ships to trade along the Mediterranean and be on the lookout for pirates, hire special workers and diplomats and more.

The game ends after six rounds after which victory points from the constructed ships, buildings, senate influence, 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

🔬 game anatomy
BGG rating7.5 / 10
Play time
45–120 min
Players
1–4
Recommended age
13+ yrs

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Q4How many players does The Great Harbor support?
The Great Harbor is played by 1–4 players.
Q5How long does a game of The Great Harbor take?
A game of The Great Harbor takes about 45–120 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
Q6What age is The Great Harbor for?
The Great Harbor is recommended from age 13.
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