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Attention, gunslingers! Big Revolver update!
In the past year, Revolver designer Mark Chaplin has spent hours and hours watching Wild West movies and reading books on the Old West. Since his card game Revolver saw a release through White Goblin Games in October 2011 (with Stronghold Games and Rexhry picking up the licensing rights for respectively North America and Czech Republic), inspiration for new options and possibilities started to flow. The result? A game with an already very high replayability (partly due to the high tension), getting a tremendous impulse of even more options, without getting away too much from the original game idea.
Mark Chaplin’s Revolver is one of the best card games that saw the light of day in 2011. After its initial release through White Goblin Games in October 2011, raving reviews worldwide have appeared about the game, in which one player has just robbed the bank of Repentance Springs and the other player is sheriff Ned McReady hunting down the bandit and his crew. All the happenings as well as movie scenes from ‘For a Few Dollars More’ amongst others, inspired Chaplin to add new possibilities to the game through multiple expansions, to be released later this year. “We’ve had a lot of requests and got a lot of interest in new expansions”, states Chaplin. “Some people even have played the game over 150 times now! I’m glad that we can finally give these people some details now, as I’m at least as excited about the new possibilities as the Revolver-fans themselves!”
Each of the expansions offers 2 new modules to play with. First, there’s ‘Revolver 1.1: Ambush on Gunshot Trail’. This one has been finished in the meantime and it will see the light of day sometime in August/September 2012. One of the new things this expansion adds to the game, are ambush cards. The sheriff now has the possibility to place ambush cards underneath the battlefield cards. When entering a new battlefield, the ambush card will be revealed. Will Colty find more opposition… or will it be an arrester? Besides the ambush cards – which add a complete new dimension to the game – the expansion also offers new cards for both decks, thus giving players the opportunity to build their own decks and to define their own play styles as well as offering new tactics. From May 21st to May 28th, each day, a brand new card from this expansion will be uploaded on the Facebook-page of White Goblin Games as some sort of ‘sneak preview’.
But more Revolver-expansions have been worked on for the past few months by Chaplin, his partner-in-Wild-West-crime Leigh Caple and the White Goblin crew. ‘Revolver 1.2: Hunt the Man down’ (release: 2012) adds a new way to kill Jack Colty, as well as a brand new battlefield, with its own set of rules: San Manzanillo Prison. It‘s up to the Colty-player to decide if there will be a firefight at San Manzanillo Prison. If Colty wins at San Manzanillo, he frees the imprisoned bandit Santiago and may add him to his crew. This expansion will also contain new cards for both decks, a new ambush card, new tokens and more.
In ‘Revolver 1.3: Where the River bends’ (stated for release in 2013) an interesting battle about getting people on your side will be added to the game. The players start the game with a pool of 6 silver Dollar tokens, and will be able to buy cards from a neutral ‘Frontier’ 22-card deck. These, and the other cards from this expansion, further develop strategies deployed in the first two expansions, with cards that affect the Prison and the Ambush cards. One of the exciting new cards is, ‘Old Three Toes’, a menacing grizzly bear that can harass both players!
All expansions can be combined with each other. None of them increase the length of the game, or heighten the complexity. Besides that, like stated earlier, the expansions offer players the possibility to build their own decks, including their favorite cards! Playing the game with the pre-constructed decks of course will give you the same tension.
Last but not least, are special Revolver sleeves, which will also see the light of day this year. Revolver-fans will be able to sleeve their cards with official Revolver sleeves, including images of both Colty and McReady.
With these new releases, the highly successful Revolver-brand will be strengthened further, offering players even more options to enjoy their daily wild west gunfight.
New board game announcement: Richelieu
The rich, French history and the history of Cardinal Richelieu who defended the country against his enemies in particular, have been a source of inspiration for board game designers for a long time. Meet game designer Olivier Lamontagne. In his soon to be released, brand new board game which is named after the Cardinal and which will be published by White Goblin Games in a multilingual edition, the players are nobles who use their tactics and a lot of bluffing to gain wealth and glory: are they going to side with the Cardinal or will they be seduced by the promise of wealth and power from foreign nations?
‘The spark for Richelieu happened in 2008’, says Lamontagne. ‘Me and two other testers were playtesting an early version of the game Québec for the designer Pierre Poissant-Marquis. As usual, random ideas about gaming in general were discussed. At some point, I had the idea of a game where you lose all your points if you pass the zero on the scoring track, instead of receiving some kind of +X marker. Pierre suggested me that this could actually be made into a more serious game. I considered his advice and the idea soon evolved into an interactive pawn on a score track that would hinder the characters with too much prestige. I immediately thought this could only be the unique Cardinal Richelieu.’
Lamontagne started working on the game design and in 2009 with Richelieu he won the prestigious Plateau d’or, a game design competition held by Journées ludique de Québec, and which has also brought forth the earlier mentioned Québec. Lamontagne, about his design: ‘The main idea of the game was intrigues in the court of Louis XIII; every intrigue would oppose Cardinal Richelieu against his enemies. The players would be nobles taking sides in these intrigues, choosing to side with Richelieu or the conspirators, or even helping both. Players control agents with secret value to influence those intrigues. The Cardinal's mood is influenced by his success or failures, and he would become intolerant against too influential nobles (i.e. the players). Different factions are opposed and it costs money to place agents, but the winning faction gives higher rewards for the players that helped them the most.’
Since then, a lot has changed, improving the game to great satisfaction of both Lamontagne and White Goblin Games. Finally, it’s ready to be released. Richelieu comes in a big box (size 30 x 30 centimeters) and is expected to be in stores early June. More info on the Richelieu product page: http://www.whitegoblingames.com/game/104/Richelieu
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RATTUS
2010 has been very good with the release of our new game "Rattus". This game is like no other game around. A game with everchanging powers in Europe during the Black Death period in 1347.
6 Character cards from 6 different classes are willing to help you but at what cost ?
Name change for Spiel release 'Congo' into 'Expedition'
We have decided to change the name of our previously announced Essen 2012 release ‘Congo – Expedition to Africa 1884’ into ‘Expedition: Congo River 1884’. The change comes after designer José Rivero has come up with a second game and although different enough, it’s roughly based on the same mechanics, but this time set in Asia. This development has shed new light on the previously announced title.
“We were looking for a way to connect the 2 games with each other”, states Rivero. “In the end, what these 2 games have in common, is the adventurous need to go on expedition, in for western travelers exotic territories. It was an obvious choice for us to connect the games in the title, just like there’s ‘Tikal’ and ‘Tikal II’. With the subtitle, we’ll make clear where in the world the expedition takes place in each game.”
The first issue of this brand new board game series will be ‘Expedition: Congo river 1884’. The game will come in a box with the same size as the highly successful games Rattus and Lost Temple and will definitely attract fans of the first-mentioned. Earlier this year, we launched a competition, where people could get their name in the board game. Hundreds of people joined the contest: 54 of them will finally find their name in the first game of the ‘Expedition’-series, which will be released at Spiel 2012 in Essen later this year. When the second issue of this series will be published – the one that will take place in Asia – is not yet decided upon.
