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City of Iron: Second Edition

#195503BGG ↗

2016 · 2-4 players · 120min · weight 3.25 · 1,351 ratings

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ID
195503
Name
City of Iron: Second Edition
Year
2016
Rank
1419
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
120
Min playtime
120
Max playtime
120
Avg weight
3.25
Num weights
40
Bayes avg
6.11367
Average
7.20961
Users rated
1351
Num owned
2952
Wanting
139
Wishing
633
Num comments
371
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:17:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (13)
Action PointsArea Majority / InfluenceDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingEnd Game BonusesHand ManagementIncomeMulti-Use CardsOnce-Per-Game AbilitiesOpen DraftingTagsTake ThatTurn Order: AuctionVariable Player Powers
Categories (5)
Card GameCity BuildingCivilizationEconomicFantasy
Description (1309 chars)

In City of Iron, 2-4 players compete to build up a small nation in a world of machines, magic, and money. Become the leader of one of four rival nations: the industrious humans, the toad engineers, the scholarly Cresarians, or the clever hogmen. Produce goods like machine parts and bottled demons to gain wealth, or research steam-age technology and recruit mercenaries to control the continent. If you want to establish new cities, you’ll build schooners or airships to reach faraway lands and flying islands. Your cities have limited capacity, so you’ll have to decide what to keep and what to demolish when building advanced structures. The future of a nation is in your hands. Build unbreakable foundations for an empire or disappear into the dusty pages of history. Differences from the first edition: The expert cards have some new iconography and have been rebalanced The expansion town card deck is gone The auction for player order has been simplified The pay track for going later in the turn is gone A bonus coin replaced the pirates The timing of scoring rounds has been changed Players now have different end-game scoring goals depending on their contract cards and regions, rather than everyone competing for the same set of end-game bonuses

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LLM v3 (deep)

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