The Castles of Burgundy (Neuauflage Burgen von Burgund 2019)

DE: schönes Design, gute Qualität, Komplex, aber doch recht einfach zu verstehen. Interessante Spielmechaniken und ein bischen Würfelglück versprechen Abwechslung, vor allem mit den mitgelieferten Erweiterungen. Ein Spiel dauert bei uns etwa 1,5 Stunden bei 2 Spielern, ist also nicht zu langwierig. Sehr zu empfehlen.

EN: nice design, good quality, somewhat complex, but still easy to learn. The combination of interesting mechanics and a bit of luck give it enough veriability to keep it interesting in the long term, especially with the included expansion. We played a 2 player game in around 1.5 hours, so it's not too drawn out. Highly recommended

Castles of Burgundy is a great Euro game that cleverly uses a system based on randomness to always push players into different strategic directions.

The aim of the game is to get points by building your small kingdom. You essentially do this by getting various tiles from supply areas which can be depleted by other players. Which supply area you can get a tile from depends on dice that you role at the beginning of each turn. In my opinion, it is this bit of randomness that makes the game very strategic, since you have to really think and react to what you get each round. You can also use your actions to get workers who can help change the result on your dice - thus making longer term strategies a bit easier, but still it means sacrificing actions to get the workers in the first place.

Also, the multiple ways in which you can get points (which depends on which kind of tiles and where you place the tiles) is so vast that there are several paths to victory. You can also intentionally grab tiles that other players need, depriving them of getting ahead.

Really great fun. The anniversary addition also comes with many additions to the base game which adds a ridiculous amount of even more variation. I advise to start off with learning the base game first though.