In Weather Machine, you take on the role of one of the Scientists working with Professor Lativ. You must manage your own Laboratory, acquiring Vouchers to spend in other Locations, building Bots, acquiring Chemicals, and increasing the size of your Workshop where you will store resources and build prototypes.Once you have conducted enough research into a particular type of weather, you want to publish a paper on the subject, and then build a prototype to help fix some of the extreme weather caused by experiments made by Lativ’s flawed Weather Machine. The research into those flaws will lead to breakthroughs that will help humanity to fix extreme weather forever, getting you Awards and possibly a Nobel Prize!Components1 Game Board1 Rulebook4 Player Aids4 Player Laboratories4 Wooden Scientist meeples48 Wooden Bots4 Wooden Scoring markers20 Wooden Voucher markers5 Wooden Lock tokens4 Wooden Initiative markers4 Wooden Turn Order markers12 Wooden Funding markers24 Wooden Breakthrough markers3 Wooden Government markers1 Wooden Lativ meeple1 Wooden Assistant meeple5 Wooden Lativ Bots12 Wooden Citation tokens12 Wooden Award tokens1 Wooden Nobel Prize35 Wooden Research tokens25 Wooden Chemical tokens15 Extreme Weather tiles15 Experiment tiles30 Workshop tiles15 Subsidy tiles12 Investment tiles36 Goal tiles50 Machine Parts
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A Great Lacerda Game
I've played and own most of Lacerda's games and have to say this is right up there with his best. There are certain aspects that are reminiscent of Kanban but Weather Machine is definitely it's own beast. It does take a play or two to wrap your head around all the moving parts and how everything interacts, but it is well worth it. A strong 5 star rating from me.As a side note, there is no need to purchase the metal gears unless you like to have the "all in" versions of games. I purchased the metal gears because I got a screaming Black Friday deal on the game and extra components at a local game store, otherwise I would have skipped the metal gears. You don't really lose anything with regard to gameplay and enjoyment if you use the cardboard gears that are included with the game.
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