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Tidal Blades: Banner Festival Board Game
Tidal Blades: Banner Festival Board Game
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Product overview
Trade smart. Time your move. Fly your banners high.
A colourful game of clever card play, racing and reading your rivals.
Play your Merchandise cards wisely to race, place banners and build the most profitable trading house.
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About this product
Trade smart. Time your move. Fly your banners high.
A colourful game of clever card play, racing and reading your rivals.
Play your Merchandise cards wisely to race, place banners and build the most profitable trading house.
Product Description
The Banner Festival has arrived in Trawl, filling the floating market with colour, competition and opportunity. Step into the role of an ambitious merchant and compete to earn the most Profit for your trading house.
Each bout, players choose a Merchandise card and reveal them simultaneously. How your card ranks in the active Quadrant determines your action: the highest-ranked card advances its Watercraft, mid-ranked cards place Banners, while the lowest-ranked card activates its special ability. With card rankings changing according to the Quadrant, timing your plays and reading your rivals becomes an important part of every decision.
Across three rounds, build your presence around the market, collect Fruit, race your Watercraft and compete for Banner majorities. With several ways to generate Profit, success comes from knowing when to push ahead — and when the right low-ranked card may be exactly what you need.
Why You’ll Love It
- Every card choice matters: Whether your Merchandise card finishes highest-ranked, mid-ranked or lowest-ranked determines the action you take.
- Simultaneous play keeps everyone involved: Choose your cards together, then reveal and resolve the results.
- Dynamic trick-taking decisions: Card rankings shift according to the active Quadrant, changing the value of your hand from bout to bout.
- Multiple paths to Profit: Advance your Watercraft, place Banners, collect Fruit and make use of Merchandise abilities.
- Rewarding player interaction: Reading your opponents and timing your plays can make all the difference.
- A colourful Tidal Blades setting: Return to the world created by Mr. Cuddington for the lively Banner Festival in Trawl.
Quick Details
- Product type: Board game
- Players: 2–5
- Play time: Approx. 30 minutes
- Designers: JB Howell & Michael Mihealsick
- Art & Narrative: Mr. Cuddington
- Gameplay: Simultaneous card play, trick-taking, racing and Banner majorities
Good to Know
- The game is played over three rounds, with a scoring phase after each round.
- Your Merchandise card can produce a different action depending on whether it ranks highest, lowest or somewhere in the middle.
- Banners compete for majority scoring across the board’s Regions.
- Dedicated 2- and 3-player rules are included in the rulebook.
- The player with the most Profit at the end of the game wins.
Game Contents
- 1 Circular Board
- 40 Merchandise Cards
- 36 Profit Tokens
- 20 Squishy Fruit
- 5 Wooden Watercraft
- 60 Wooden Banners
- 35 Character Cards
- 5 Reference Cards
- 1 Wooden Trade Gate