{"id":3575,"date":"2005-01-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2005\/01\/23\/flandern-1302\/"},"modified":"2005-01-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-23T11:00:00","slug":"flandern-1302","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/2005\/01\/23\/flandern-1302\/","title":{"rendered":"Flandern 1302"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flandern 1302<\/a><\/h2>\n

reviewed by Moritz Eggert<\/i><\/p>\n

How would it be if German games suddenly weren’t allowed to use the seasoned
\nprinciple of “place tiles\/pawns to gain majority in areas” and “gain VP in
\nthese areas and keep track of them on a victory point track”? The propagation of
\nthis principle through games like “El Grande” is perhaps the biggest
\nachievement of German game design: the possibility to create a situation of fierce
\ncompetition without resorting to wargame principles of destruction and conquest, the
\nembodiment of the principles of democracy in gaming terms.<\/p>\n

“Flandern 1302”, the new game from Queen Games, certainly doesn’t invent
\nthe wheel in this respect, many might feel a slight tinge of “done that, seen
\nthat” when reading the rules. But this doesn’t necessarily make it a bad
\ngame.<\/p>\n

In fact, “Flandern 1302” has some things going for it. The board and tile
\ndesign is especially beautiful, and there is a certain pleasing feeling when completing
\nthe various cities with various unusually shaped tiles.<\/p>\n

The players act as guild masters in medieval Flanders. The play of cards gives players
\nthe possibility to place tiles of his\/her affiliated guild. The cards determine the
\npossible cities in which tiles can be placed. Some of the cities already have a city
\ncentre in the colour of the player, but it is this player’s decision to use this
\nadvantage or not. Interestingly there is also a “neutral”, grey colour, which
\ncan actually win a majority and even get points (handy if you’d rather have
\nneutrality win than another player). The latter mechanic somewhat offsets the kingmaker
\neffect that games of this sort sometimes have, especially when the selection of tiles
\nbecomes limited and you may be forced to play tiles to another player’a
\nadvantage.<\/p>\n

\"Flandern<\/p>\n

Of course there are the usual shticks that make these kind of games interesting. It is
\npossible to place tiebreakers (“Zunftmeister”), heighten the value of the city
\nthrough church tiles, and to play cards for better hand management. A new idea is that
\ncities can be enlarged for possible more points but also more competition. As is usual in
\nthese games one can never be everywhere at once, so it is good to not spread yourself too
\nthin. A winning move can be to save the right tiles and be the only payer who can
\ncontinue to play at the end, but this is not easily achieved.<\/p>\n

That’s already all there is to this game – some people might call it too simple,
\nothers will enjoy that this game can be quite quickly played and enjoyed as the abstract
\ntile-laying game that it is.<\/p>\n

If you don’t have enough of this kind of games yet, “Flandern 1302” can
\nbe wholeheartedly recommended. It is a solid design with no major flaws apart of the
\nusual group dynamic effect that sometimes makes area competition games a bit
\nunsatisfying. But a solid design it is. Others might prefer to wait for the next gaming
\nrevolution – but who knows how long we will have to wait for it? There could be worse
\nthings than playing a game of “Flandern 1302” while waiting for it.<\/p>\n

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Flandern 1302 reviewed by Moritz Eggert How would it be if German games suddenly weren’t allowed to use the seasoned principle of “place tiles\/pawns to gain majority in areas” and “gain VP in these areas and keep track of them on a victory point track”? The propagation of this principle through games like “El Grande” … Flandern 1302<\/span> weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spieleabende"],"views":6,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westpark-gamers.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}