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Abstract Strategy, Medieval
by Dirk Henn
Score
Ratings
4,019
Published
1992
Players
2 players
BGG community rating
Ranked #1804 on BoardGameGeek
Complexity
1.9
Light
Best with
2
players
Play time
30 min
Age
10+
Information
Players
2 players
Best with
2 players
Play time
30 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.9 / 5 · Light
BGG Rank
#1804
Published
1992
Designer
Dirk Henn
Artists
Tanja Donner, Wanjin Gill, Anke Pohl, Thilo Rick
Publishers
db-Spiele, KOSMOS, 999 Games
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Originally published as Texas by db-Spiele. The battle between farmers and ranchers is fairly abstract. A single pawn travels on a square grid. Each player has a hand of cards face up. These each have a direction and a distance. The player can either draw a card and add it to his hand, or play a card. If he plays a card, then the pawn moves the appropriate distance to an empty square, and the player places one of his markers. Each player also has judge symbols that can each be used only once. The judge lets you move onto a previously placed opposition marker and reverse it. Players score points for each contiguous region equal to the square of the number of markers. If a player is not careful, such a move may be forced, as there is a maximum number of cards that a player may hold. Contains rules for playing with 4 (in two partnerships of two players). Later republished 1999 as Rosenkönig by Kosmos, as part of the two-player game series. The republication also included a re-theming of the game. The setting changed from Texas to England, and the factions changed from farmers and ranchers to the factions of the Plantagenet family from the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) - the Lancaster (red rose) and the York (white rose) factions in a similarly abstracted fashion. Rosenkönig is part of the Kosmos two-player series.
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