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The Rose King
2
average 30 minutes
Easy
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Abstract Strategy Medieval
Area Control / Area Influence Hand Management Card Drafting Grid Movement

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.

Overall Statistics for Fred A. Gaming Group

Total Games Played: 3
Average Players Per Game 2

Win/Loss Statistics for Fred A. Gaming Group

Badges Name   NemePoints   Total Games   Avg. NemePoints   Wins / Losses % Won  
farchamb 35  3 12.00 
2
1
66 %
Virginie R 28  3 9.00 
1
2
33 %

    Last 3 Played Games for Fred A. Gaming Group

    Date Played Result
    3/4/2016
    1st Virginie R (232 game points scored)
    14 
    2nd farchamb (84 game points scored)
    7/8/2015
    1st farchamb (263 game points scored)
    14 
    2nd Virginie R (125 game points scored)
    6/2/2015
    1st farchamb (214 game points scored)
    14 
    2nd Virginie R (114 game points scored)