Pampero

With no natural resources, the Government of Uruguay is concerned about the country’s dependence on imported fossil fuels. As a consequence, it is seeking to increase the share of domestic resources, of which the most feasible are biomass and wind energy, as well as employing end-use energy efficiency measures to increase its energy security. In addition, the government aims to use the intended growth of the domestic energy sector to foster its other objectives of increasing economic growth and creating employment. (Extract from World Bank Documents, CASE STUDY 11: URUGUAY – WIND ENERGY PROGRAMME )

”Toward noon, however, the sun’s rays were extremely scorching, and when evening came, a bar of clouds streaked the southwest horizon - a sure sign of a change in the weather. The Patagonian pointed it out to the geographer, who replied:

’Yes, I know;’ and turning to his companions, added, ’see, a change of weather is coming! We are going to have a taste of PAMPERO.’ And he went on to explain that this PAMPERO is an extremely dry wind which blows from the southwest. [...] The PAMPERO generally brings a tempest which lasts three days, and may be always foretold by the depression of the mercury, ’he said. ’But when the barometer rises, on the contrary, which is the case now, all we need expect is a few violent blasts. So you can make your mind easy, my good friend; by sunrise the sky will be quite clear again.’ ( Jules Verne, 1868: In Search of the Castaways. CHAPTER XVI: THE NEWS OF THE LOST CAPTAIN. )

Pampero is a hand-management, card-driven action-selection game. Every player has a starting set of eight cards to be played on their own tableau, which contains two rows of spaces to activate actions on the different sectors of the board. Each turn, you have the option to play a card to the leftmost empty space of either row or to retrieve all cards from your tableau. After three actions, a special phase takes place — consolidation, during which you retrieve the rightmost card from any row, generate batteries from stored energy, collect income, and advance the game timer. The player with the most money at the end of the game wins.

—description from the designer

AWARDS & HONORS:
2024 UK Games Expo Best Boardgame (Euro-Style) Nominee.

COMPONENTS:
Cardboard:
1 Game Board (85x50cm, double-sided 1-2/3-4 players)
4 Dual-layer Grid (player) Boards (21.5x34.5cm, in player colors - teal, yellow, purple, white))
1 Dual-layer Solo Grid Board (22x34.5cm, red)
1 Solo Pass tile (round)
6 Majority markers (solo, 1-3 circles, 1-3 gears)
2 Zone B Discount overlays (35x3cm)
1 Tower Bonus board (32x9.5cm)
1 Extended Time track (26.5x9.5cm)
20 Scoring tiles (44x44mm; half stack I, half II; with 1 starred Introductory tile per stack)
36 Tower Bonus tiles (12x each Zones A, B, C)
31 Standard Contract tiles (15x green & teal A, 10x yellow & peach B, 6x pink C)
31 Solar Contract tiles (orange)
10 Remote Contract tiles (brown)
16 Venture Capital tiles (red & white)
12 Connection tiles (6x A, 6x B)
4 Starting Connection tiles (1x per player)
70 Money tokens (20x copper $1, 20x blue silver $5, 20x silver $10, 15x gold $20)
28 Network tiles (pink hexes)

Cardstock:
90 small cards (44x66mm):
36 Specialist cards
• 18 Action (off-white backs)
• 18 Scoring (gray backs)
36 Basic Action cards (8 for each player color, green backs)
• 18 Foreign Market cards (9 Argentina, 9 Brazil)

18 large Solo cards (69x119mm)

4 Company Mats (35x11cm, 1 per player color)

Wood:
‣ 24 Batteries (green)
‣ 44 Wind Farms (11x each player color)
‣ 28 Electrical Towers (7x each player color)
‣ 20 Bulldozers (5x each player color)
‣ 108 Transformers (27x each player color, with 3x #1, 4x #2, 6x #3, 3x #4, 3x #5, 4x #6, 4x #7)
‣ 4 Energy Trackers (green, 1 per player)
‣ 8 Turn Markers (2x per player color, time & turn order)
• 12 Action markers (3x per player color)
‣ 20 Income Markers (5 per player, marked for Residential, Industrial, Commercial, Resort, Remote)

1 Rulebook (24 p.).
4 Player Reference Booklets (8 p.)
1 Solo Rulebook (8 p.).

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9781736276426

Ape Games

120

2024

14+

2025-03-10 11:40:41

~$95.00

2025-12-01

2025-03-10 11:40:41