Pampero is a hand management, card driven action selection game. Every player has a identical starting hand of 8 cards, to be played on an action board on their tableau, which contains two rows of spaces to activate actions on the different sectors of the board. On your turn you will have the option to play one card to the leftmost empty space of any row, pay the cost for that space (depending which zone on the board the action will take place ? A, B, or C), and take the action. After three turns, all players return only the rightmost card from one of the two rows back into their hand. Players also collect income.
Actions become less expensive as cards fill your action board. Eventually, you will run low on cards and need to take a turn to retrieve all cards from your tableau and move your turn marker to the next space.
Knowing when and where to play cards, and when to retrieve them all to your hand is a crucial skill for success. Add wind farms to the board to collect energy that can be used to power other actions, such as placing power lines. Move power lines to the main board from your grid board, opening your grid board up and allowing you to collect different contract types and achieve higher income.
Collect contracts from the board in areas where you've added power lines. Move these contracts to the grid board on your tableau, and put the transformer from that space on the grid board onto the main board to show ownership of that contract.
Multiple scoring tiles, bonus action card, bonus tiles, etc. provide multiple avenues to victory and make every game a very different experience!
The installation of wind farms can have an impact on the natural habitat of the surrounding fauna and flora. The government has programs that reward the protection of this habitat. A new action lets players score points for nature reserves near their transformers.
The Clear Skies expansion is a collection of stretch goals from the Pampero game.
Included are additional components that can be used with the existing base game rules, as well as three new game concepts:
This expansion includes components and rules for Nature and the Cardal Transmission Project.
The Nature expansion includes components and rules for improving the energy grid infrastructure.
Nature Components:
The Cardal Transmission Project included with the expansion lets players improve the resilience and reliability of Uruguay's electricity transmission network.
Cardal Transmissions Project Components: