Barrage: The China Challenge

Players develop infrastructure along the Yellow River, placing landscape tiles to reshape the map and reveal completed structures that grant regional bonuses and new action spaces. The board adds two natural lakes where water droplets can stop, affecting flow and resource management. New landscape tiles show construction costs and produce permanent or map-changing effects when built. A new company introduces pressure conduits that give a +1 value but demand extra concrete mixers and scale in cost as more are built. Powerhouses come in varied shapes and unlock staggered benefits as the company builds multiple plants, altering production and scoring dynamics.