Monday, October 25, 2010

Lost Cities Module

Lost Cities is a card game from the Kosmos two-player series. The object is to mount profitable expeditions to one or more of the five different lost cities. Card play is quite straightforward, with a few agonizing moments sprinkled through what is mostly a fast-moving game. If you start a given expedition, you'd better make some progress in it, or it'll score you negative points. If you can make a lot of progress, you'll score quite well. After three rounds, the highest total score takes the day.

Lost Cities at BGG: BoardGameGeek.com
VASSAL: vassalengine.org

Downloads - VASSAL

Module: LostCities.vmod (v1.1 - 2010-11-01)
v1.1 fixes the investment cards

Downloads - Rules
Game Rules (English): Lost Cities_gameRules.pdf

Screenshots

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Rosenkönig (War of the Roses) Module

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.
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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.


Rosenkönig at BGG: BoardGameGeek.com
VASSAL: vassalengine.org

Downloads - VASSAL

Module: Rosenkoenig.vmod (v1.0 - 2010-10-17)

Downloads - Rules
Game Rules (English): Rosenkoenig.pdf

Screenshots