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Rondel

What is a Rondel?

A rondel is a game mechanic where a circular or wheel-like chart is used to offer players a limited selection of actions they can take on their turn. Typically, a marker moves along the spaces of the rondel, and on a player's turn, they move their marker a few spaces forward and perform the action where they land.

Purpose of the Rondel

The purpose of the rondel is to:

Introduce strategic planning: Players must anticipate future turns.
Limit choices: Players can only pick actions ahead of their current position.
Add constraints: The cost often increases for moving further on the rondel.

Games with Rondel Mechanics

Notable games that feature rondels include:

Imperial: Players govern major powers and a rondel dictates the actions they can finance.
Navigador: Players explore, colonize, and trade in the age of discovery, using a rondel to select actions.

Rondel and Area Majority / Influence games

In Beta Colony, you play as one of four directors trying to create prosperous colonies and be elected as the first leader of Victus. Featuring a unique dice based "rolldell" system where all players will use a duplicate dice roll to take two actions...

In Squaring Circleville, you work for the Circleville Squaring Company to manage the process of deconstructing and reconstructing the town of Circleville. You will move around the courthouse rondel getting permits to perform work, such as deconstructing...

Squaring Circleville

Solo / Solitaire Game with Rondel

Strategy Game with Rondel

Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done - Divine Influence Expansion

Atlantis Exodus

Glen More II - Promo 2 Lowland Clans

Murano (Complete Edition)

Concordia Venus: Balearica/Italia

Concordia: Balearica/Cyprus

Rondel and Set Collection games

Transmissions (Deluxe, Kickstarter Edition)

Queen's Architect

Sovereign Skies

Kraftwagen: Age of Engineering

Scorpius Freighter

Animals themed games with Rondel

This special collector's edition includes all-wood components, including meadow tiles, water tiles, petal tracker boards, and tokens! It also contains a custom rondel insert.Immerse yourself in the wonder of nature and create a vibrant meadow bursting...

This special collector's edition includes all-wood components, including meadow tiles, water tiles, petal tracker boards, and tokens!Immerse yourself in the wonder of nature and create a vibrant meadow bursting with flowers to attract the most vital ...

Mallorca. Island of the wind.A place of golden beaches and a light-blue sea. The almond harvest is at hand. In addition, juicy oranges, lemons, and figs are ready to be picked and taken to the market. Olive trees bewitch the country with their curled...

The sky breaks blue and bright over a mouth-watering field of obstacles. Your team of agility dogs is eager to breathtakingly weave the poles, sail over hurdles, blast through tunnels, round corners at top speed with fur a-tussle, and harness lightning...

Fantasy themed games with Rondel

Merchants of the Dark Road: Patron's Provisions Expansion

Perdition's Mouth: Abyssal Rift (Revised Edition)

In the Hall of the Mountain King: Fall of the Mountain King (Kickstarter Edition)

Merlin (Deluxe Big Box Edition)

Merchants of the Dark Road (Standard Edition)

Genpei (Kickstarter Deluxe Edition)

Merlin - Arthur Expansion

Empyreal: Spells & Steam

Rondel games published by Maldito Games

In New York Zoo, you are constructing an animal park. Build animal encounters, introduce new animals and raise their offspring. The first player to cover all the construction spaces on their zoo board with Enclosure Tiles and Attractions wins the game...

Build a Subway Line to Shape the City's FutureThe city is growing, and you've been hired to build a subway line to meet the transportation needs of its residents. Carefully plan your actions and manage your resources to accomplish both private and public...

Race to the record books with First in Flight, a lofty deck-building game that puts you in the earliest pilots' seats. Up to four players choose from historical aviation pioneers vying to conquer the skies by testing their flyers, improving their designs...

Celt — Latin Celta, plural Celtae — were an early Indo-European people who from the second millennium BCE to the first century BCE spread over much of Europe. Their tribes and groups eventually ranged from the British Isles and Portugal to as far east...

Spies / Secret Agents themed games with Rondel

Watch

You have just started working at a Soviet watch factory that you’ve discovered used to be a World War II era munitions factory. You’ve been sent there to produce gears, which you can sell for money, but you also need those gears to disguise the munitions...

Spies / Secret Agents

Nautical themed games with Rondel

In the 19th Century, the Age of Sails met the Age of Steam, and for a time, ships moved across the ocean under power of both wind and coal. It was an exciting time to run a shipyard!Buy equipment. Hire crew. Build the ships that will power commerce,...

Twenty years after his expedition around the world, Charles Darwin is writing On the Origins of Species. He wants to gather new information about animal life, particularly about continents he hardly explored. Who else than young naturalists, eager for...

The year is 1870. For centuries, sails have ruled the seas, but now the steam engine is beginning to dominate. Shipbuilders are experimenting with new designs, competing for the prestigious Blue Riband, which honors the fastest ship to cross the Atlantic...

Towards the end of the 19th Century, ever larger and faster ocean liners revolutionized the growing maritime traffic. Daring shipping companies opened steamship lines to the most important parts worldwide. Modern steel juggernauts replaced traditional...

Rondel games published by Portal Games

Roman Empire themed games with Rondel

The Roman temple of Évora was probably built in honor of Emperor Augustus. It was built in the 1st century AD in the main square (forum) of Évora – then called Liberalitas Julia. In this game players will play the role of builders of the Roman Empire...

Construction of a new ampitheater in Rome has been ordered. An ampitheater so large that it dwarfs all the others—the Colosseum!As a prominent architect, you have been tasked with the planning and building of the Colosseum according to the specifications...

Porta Nigra (The Great Designers Series #1)The largest Roman city north of the Alps in the late Roman Empire was Augusta Treverorum. Founded in the times of Caesar Augustus and built up by generations of Roman architects, this was the Emperor's residence...