Four New Titles from Tilsit: Chvatil, Faidutti, Laget, Schacht

Tilsit Editions has four titles coming out in March 2008, three of them part of a two-player game line and the fourth a reprint of a title by Vlaada Chvatil. The games are:

• Kheops: Players are architects in Egypt building rooms in the Great Pyramid, represented by triangular tiles that start at a wide base and build toward a peak. The player who builds the longest network wins. Since Bruno Faidutti and Serge Laget are the designers, some of the rooms contain special actions like curses or rotating corridors.


• Amsterdam: A new edition of Kontor, a tile-laying game of trading in 17th century Amsterdam that was released by Goldsieber in 1999, then expanded by designer Michael Schacht through multiple releases on his Spiele aus Timbuktu website.
• Frankenstein: A nice-looking edition of a game that Michael Schacht released in a cut-out version through Spiele aus Timbuktu. Players need to manipulate ingredients placed in stacks in order to collect sets of items and bring their monster to life.


• Robin des Bois: A new edition of Vlaada Chvatil’s Merry Men of Sherwood, in which 2-4 players control said merry men and try to ambush the forces of the Sheriff of Nottingham in order to liberate some loot without being captured and imprisoned. (Note that Sherwood was the original title for this new edition; Robin des Bois is the published name.)

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More info about Kheops, and the rules, on my website: http://www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=mesjeux&id=542 Posted by Bruno Faidutti on Mar 6, 2008 at 12:05 PM | #

Awfully promising batch from a publisher with an undistinguished record. Posted by Jonathan Franklin on Mar 6, 2008 at 12:29 PM | #

I don’t think their record is so bad. They’ve made some bad games, sur, but they’ve also published several good ones. I’m not ashamed of my taking part in Key Largo, now in engslih by Titanic. Maka Bana and Skaal are also good games. But, most of all, they’ve published Himalaya, which is a really great game. Posted by Bruno Faidutti on Mar 6, 2008 at 12:45 PM | #

Well, if we are looking on the upside, I really like Tilsit’s Kanaloa (multiplayer Kahuna), and hope to someday play the other Kanaloa with the fishing gods and the big pawns Posted by Jonathan Franklin on Mar 6, 2008 at 01:24 PM | #

I agree these look promising.  The artwork is really fantastic.  I hope they release an English title for Sherwood...instead of just Robin des Bois. Posted by Ryan Bretsch on Mar 6, 2008 at 01:31 PM | #

The original Sherwood was not language-dependent, other than the rules.  Given the Galaxy Trucker rules (really good), I’d hope we’ll see English rules, even if it is not released here.  Insert crack about the Euro/Dollar exchange rate here. Posted by Jonathan Franklin on Mar 6, 2008 at 01:36 PM | #

An oddity about the release of Amsterdam is that it is in the Tilsit two player series, but Kontor explicitly had an expansion for 3/4 players. Posted by Jonathan Franklin on Mar 6, 2008 at 01:37 PM | #

I also think that Richard Coeur de Lion (Domaine) is very well produced! Paulo Posted by Paulo Soledade on Mar 6, 2008 at 01:38 PM | #

Sorry, Bruno, I should have included a link to your site to begin with—especially since that’s where I first saw Kheops! Eric Posted by W. Eric Martin on Mar 6, 2008 at 01:50 PM | #

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