Guild Academies of Valeria Review

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We review Guild Academies of Valeria, a worker placement game published by Daily Magic Games. In Guild Academies of Valeria, you and your fellow Headmasters are trying to build out your academies and train your students.

In Guild Academies of Valeria, your goal is to build the greatest Guild Academy by hiring the best professors and creating a fostering environment to train the right students to complete dangerous and rewarding quests. Along the way, you must gain influence over the ministries in the town council and earn favors to help on this mission.

Guild Academies of Valeria is published by Daily Magic Games, and designed by Stanislav Kordonskiy. The game supports 1-4 players and takes about 90-120 minutes to play.

Guild Academies of Valeria takes place over four rounds and each round has four phases: Recruitment, Education, Questing, and Restoration.

Recruitment phase: During this phase, each player, in turn, sends their three Stewards, one at a time, to one of the four docks to draft a student die and perform the dock’s action, the banking action, and possibly an extra action. 

The student dice are rolled at the start of the turn and are randomly placed on each dock. The students are in one of four guilds: Red die = Soldier, Gray die = Shadow, Blue die = Holy, and Orange die = Worker.  The student’s cost is gold equal to the number on the die drafted (1-6).

Dock Actions:

Banking Action – Instead of taking a dock action you may receive 8 gold minus the die number of the student drafted.

Education Phase: Assign your professors and appropriate students to the classroom tiles in your Academy. Follow the instructions to educate your students and advance the dice the appropriate amount, you may spend magic or use monuments and favors to further educate your students. The goal is to graduate your students by raising the number on their die to greater than 6. 

Questing Phase: Assign the graduated students to the quests based on the Guild requirements for quest