Revolution is a method board game primarily based on the theme of political turmoil and gaining affect over a metropolis. It’s thought of a gateway game, a game that’s not as complicated as the usual technique board game, however introduces gaming ideas and mechanics to new or informal board avid gamers. Within the case of Revolution, the game revolves across the mechanics of bidding and space control as you attempt to use cash, blackmail and power to outmaneuver the opposite gamers and take control of key areas within the metropolis.
The purpose of the game is to earn probably the most help from town. This may be accomplished both by gathering help factors in the course of the game, and by controlling key areas of town on the finish of the game. These areas – such because the Fortress, Cathedral, Harbor and Market – are price completely different quantities of help to the gamers who finish the game in control of them. And controlling an space means you must have probably the most affect on it, as represented by coloured dice tokens.
So how do you win help and place your coloured cubes on the essential zip codes? By utilizing the most effective instruments obtainable – gold, blackmail and power! You’ll be able to achieve the cooperation of town’s key figures by both bribing them, or blackmailing them, or utilizing excessive power to persuade them to help your trigger. However each participant will wish to affect these folks. So the game has a particular bidding mechanic to determine which participant is profitable.
The bidding course of in Revolution takes place on bidding boards (every participant has their very own board) with 16 packing containers on them, with every field representing one of many key figures within the metropolis. You point out which of those packing containers you want to affect by putting your “assets” on them, represented by Gold, Blackmail and Drive tokens. All that is accomplished in secret behind screens although, so you will not know which packing containers the opposite gamers try to affect, and the way a lot assets they’re placing into them. The assets usually are not created equal both. A bid that incorporates Blackmail will trump a bid made with solely Gold, and a bid that incorporates Drive will win in opposition to bids that solely include Gold or Blackmail. If there’s an equal quantity of Drive in two bids, the bid with the biggest quantity of Blackmail in it’s going to win.