Wallenstein (Second Edition)

Players take the roles of military leaders during the Thirty Years' War, maneuvering armies, collecting taxes and grain, and building palaces and churches to score control of land over two simulated “years.” Each action season (spring, summer, fall) uses a mix of face-up and face-down action cards; players assign county cards secretly to the ten action slots on their personal board and bid for turn order and bonus tiles before actions resolve. Conflict and revolts are resolved using a dice tower: wooden army and peasant cubes are dropped in and those that emerge determine combat strength while others may become stuck for later. Resource management (money and grain) affects recruitment, construction, and revolt risk. Two optional modules add an imperial court of courtiers competing for favors and a stacked bonus-card mechanic that rewards regional control; intended play is for three to five players.

Joueurs: 3–5 idéal à 5
Temps de jeu: 90–120 min
Âge: 12+
Complexité: 3,2 / 5

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Auteurs: Dirk Henn
Illustration: Oliver Schlemmer
Publisher: Queen Games

Extensions

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Wallenstein: Military Leaders – Expansion Module 32016

Wallenstein: Office – Expansion Module 42016

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16
Parties enregistrées: 26
Joueurs: 2h 44m
Partie moyenne: 11
Dans des collections: 3
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6,5/10

sur 10 avis Ludoya

Evan5,9
In this game you get a hand of cards that match the areas you control. On your player board you have card slots that match the different actions that happen each round. During the preparation phase, you program those actions by placing the region cards on them, meaning the action will happen in the region you assign to the slot. The order of actions is randomized, and half of them are public knowlage at the start of the round. The rest get revealed as they happen. The game can feel complicated, but it flows smoothly as most of the actions can be resolved simultaneously. Combat is quick and interesting, as it involves dumping everyone's cubes into a tower and whomever has more spill out is the winner. The cost is that for every one of the defender's cubes that came out, the winner will also lose that many cubes. Cubes that retain in the tower will help you in your future battles. In this way you achieve a semi-random combat system, but the victum of this round's randomness has an advantage in future battles. The one complaint about this game is the thing that makes it the most interesting. It feels like a dudes on the map game, on shuffle mode. You know where you want your actions to happen, but maybe someone takes that spot out from under you before it resolves. Maybe the order in which the actions happen makes it so that you can't afford the action you selected. Maybe the amount of grain needed to feed your spots at the end of the round is more than you planned for, and the peasants revolt causing you to lose spots. Maybe every combat you get into, both players tie and the spot gets wiped including the high value buildings you spent time making. I go back and forth being thrilled and frustrated. :star: Art, Iconography and components functional :star: Clever or interesting mechanisms :star: Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players :star: Multiple plays stay interesting :star: Low or mitigatable luck elements :star::star::nostar::nostar::nostar: Raw enjoyment
Mestremuten7,0
Rating: 4/5 Production value: 3/4 Is the game in my collection/Love to have?: 0/1
Dragonshiq8,0
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