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War of buttons

1814 - Napoleon Buttonaparte and General Ludwig York von Buttonburg confront each other in battle after battle; armies are in position for a new confrontation and each general tries to win the biggest advantage by using spies to win the battle.

Three big red buttons represent Napoleon’s army, 3 black big ones those of General York and three white buttons represent spies and double agents employed by both armies. The small buttons in red and black are given out as victory points at the end of the battle.

Each player chooses a general and wants to be First to win 15 victory points. Those victory points are won with highest possible positions of your own armies in the final stack.

The nine big buttons are shuffled and randomly laid out in a circle, The active player must choose a stack in which there is at least one white button = spy, at the start of the game one button by itself, if necessary, and places all buttons in this stack in clockwise direction one by one on neighboring stacks. When you place the last button of the stack on a button of the same color you have another turn. When there are fewer buttons around the battlefield as there are buttons in the stack you place the remaining stack on the last available button. When all buttons are collected in one stack you sum the points for positions of your buttons; if you achieve the higher total you are given the difference of both sums for victory points.

This is a sophisticated little game, easily carried around and always good for a fast game; the scoring of positions at the end allows some differentiated tactics and the random starting positions yield variety.

Players: 2

Age: 8+

Time: 15+

Designer: Bruno Cathala

Art: Cyril Bouquet

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Jactalea 2012

Web: www.jactalea.com

Genre: Tactical stacking game

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr

In-game text: no

Comments:

Practical format

Simple rules

Sophisticated scoring

Compares to:

Abstract placement games with stack formation

Other editions:

French only edition, Jactalea

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0