Twitter shenanigans aside, it’s time for another Mintage Monday!
We picked up Underwater Cities about a month ago. When we got it to the table recently, my wife and I both instantly fell in love. I was already a fan of Vladimir Suchy’s Pulsar 2849, and this is just another fantastic addition to his ludology. And whenever we fall in love with a game that hard, you know we have to get metal coins for it.
But the in-game coins for Underwater Cities are unique in that they’re a) sci-fi themed and b) rectangular. I didn’t know if I’d be able to find anything appropriately themed for the game, and while there are plenty of sci-fi themed sets that would do okay, none of them really stood out to me.
So, I went back through Board Games for Metal Coins, A Compulsion, looking specifically at the coins I didn’t already own, and BAM! There they were: the “futuristic metal coins” from Minion games. (These coins are technically for the game Hegemonic, but they market them as a generic sci-fi set.)
These coins are definitely great, with a nice feel and finish, and good weight and thickness. But, more importantly in this particular case, they’re rectangular! And once I got a good look at them, the hexes at the corners feel like a nice match to the Underwater Cities player boards. So, winning all around!
They only issue? They are expensive. I had a couple of outside forces able to help mitigate the cost for me, but as much as I love these coins I don’t think I can recommend them at full price. Sorry for being that kind of downer two weeks in a row! The upshot is you don’t need very many of them for Underwater Cities, so even though the per-coin price is high, the overall cost is pretty low. I leave it up to you to decide if it’s low enough.
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