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Rattus Africanus

Black Death spreads to Northern Africa

In this 2^nd expansion for Rattus the Black Death has reached Northern Africa but, luckily for all, those regions are also home to some very useful personalities and characters offering competent help for the fight against the Plague.

The expansion introduces four new Class cards Islam; these cards are added to the original six cards and then you again choose six cards for the game. The basic rules of the Rattus core game also apply for using the expansion, but in a game of five and six players Knight and other Chivalry cards have a range of up to three steps.  Region Cards can be used for extra points in scoring or use them to survive Black Death. The new cards are: Astronomer - if you hold this card you may draw three region cards, chose one and discard the others. Explorer - if you hold this card you can draw region cards and place markers in one region, then all cards these are discarded. Sultan - while holding this card you can place a diplomacy marker underneath one of your markers in a region; at the end of the game you score extra points if you hold most diplomacy markers. Caravaner - while holding this card you can move the camel caravan marker two steps; in the starting region and in the region the camel moves through the player who currently holds most markers there can place another marker.

The Caravaner and Diplomacy introduce additional possibilities and strategies, more control via the region cards and especially the option to play with five and six players; all in all an exactly balanced expansion between keeping up the feeling of the core game and new features.

Players: 2-6

Age: 12+

Time: ca. 45 min

Designer: Åse and Henrik Berg

Art: Alexander Roche

Price: ca. 37 Euro

Publisher: White Goblin Games 2011

Web: www.whitegoblingames.com

Genre: Placement and position game

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

2^nd expansion for Rattus

Components for a 5^th and 6^th player

New features wee balanced towards the core game

Compares to:

Rattus, Rattus Pied Piper, Majority games with action cards

Other editions:

Z-Man Games, USA

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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