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Iberia

2-5 players 45-45 min 7.9 Board Game Geek Rating

Set in 1848 Iberian Peninsula, players assume roles like nurse, doctor, and railwayman to combat malaria, typhus, yellow fever, and cholera. Travel between Barcelona and Lisboa using carriages, boats, and trains while distributing purified water and building railways to slow disease spread. Victory requires discovering cures for all four diseases plaguing the region.

Published 2016

Iberia

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

1
Prepare infection deck
Shuffle the infection deck (dark back) and infect: 3 cities with 3 cubes, 3 cities with 2 cubes, 3 cities with 1 cube
2
Discard used cards
All played infection cards go to the infection discard pile
3
Prepare player deck
Based on player count from Table 1, shuffle event cards into the player deck (light back)
4
Observe hand limit
Maximum hand limit is 7 cards throughout the game
5
Choose starting locations
Each player selects one city from their hand cards to place their pawn (if no city cards, start anywhere)
6
Add epidemic cards
Based on difficulty from Table 2, divide the player deck into smaller piles and shuffle 1 epidemic card into each pile
7
Stack the player deck
Combine all piles into one deck (DO NOT SHUFFLE AGAIN)
8
Determine first player
Choose starting player (optionally by oldest/youngest city age)

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

1
Perform actions
Take up to 4 actions (see reference card for options)
2
Draw player cards
Draw 2 cards from the player deck; if epidemic, resolve as written on card; check hand limit
3
Infect cities
Draw infection cards based on infection rate marker (black-red track); add 1 cube per card drawn
4
Resolve outbreaks
If a city would receive a 4th cube of the same color, do not add it; instead move outbreak marker up 1 and infect all adjacent cities
5
Handle chain outbreaks
Outbreaks can chain, but never add cubes to cities that already had an outbreak this chain
6
Track cube limits
Each city can have up to 3 cubes of each color
7
Resolve double epidemics
If you draw two epidemic cards, resolve one completely, then the other
8
Play event cards
Event cards may be played at any time except during drawing and resolving cards
9
Move hospitals
If a hospital is already built, you may move it to another location by discarding a card matching the color of the current city
10
Purify water
Perform this action in two ways:
11
Use purified water
Each purified water marker automatically prevents one infection cube in that region; each region can hold any number of water markers

Winning

How to claim victory.

1
Victory condition
Win by researching all 4 diseases
2
Outbreak defeat
Lose if the outbreak marker reaches the final space on the outbreak track
3
Cube supply defeat
Lose if you cannot place required cubes because the supply is exhausted
4
Deck defeat
Lose if you cannot draw 2 player cards when required

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