Viticulture: Bordeaux Expansion

Description

--- **TLDR** Bordeaux expansion for Viticulture adds an alternative board with enhanced worker placement, expert upgrades, trade market, and VP conversions from resources (23 words). Key mechanics include: - *Starting boost* Provides players an initial advantage at game start. - *4 full worker placement seasons* Expands seasonal worker placement opportunities. - *Wake-up chart* Offers various benefits based on wake-up positions. - *Expert action* Permanently upgrades a chosen action for the player. - *Revisions to existing actions* Updates and improves prior action spaces. - *Trade market* Introduces a new market for trading resources. - *Face-up vine and wine order cards* Allows selection from visible cards when drawing. - *End-game VP conversion* Converts leftover grapes, wine, and coins into victory points. The Bordeaux expansion introduces an alternative board to Viticulture, enhancing gameplay with a starting boost for players, four comprehensive worker placement seasons, a beneficial wake-up chart, a pivotal "expert" action that enables permanent upgrades to any action space, revisions to existing actions for improved functionality, a dedicated trade market, face-up vine and wine order cards available for selection during draws, and an end-game mechanism converting surplus grapes, wine, and coins into victory points. It maintains broad compatibility with modules from other expansions, including Tuscany structures and special workers, Moor Visitors, and Rhine Valley. The board's design facilitates easy storage, fitting seamlessly into the Viticulture box or Wine Crate, with its reverse side replicating the original board to replace it permanently. Notably, it is not standalone and requires the Viticulture core game. ---