Inside Jerry Taylor’s and Columbia Games’ Wars of the Roses
Jerry Taylor’s Hammer of the Scots is one of the top-rated games on BoardGameGeek, a crossover success between Eurogame and wargame—and he’s returning to the same battlefield with his next title, Wars of the Roses. Here’s a description of the forthcoming title from Columbia Games:
| Wars of the Roses is an epic two-player game about the long and bloody dynastic struggle between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England. The game depicts both the vicious military campaigns and the rich political struggles that surrounded the rule of the mad-king Henry VI, the Yorkist usurper Edward IV, Richard III, and the first Tudor king, Henry VII.
Also strutting across the game’s stage are Richard of York, patriarch of the house of Plantagenet, Richard Neville, the notorious “Kingmaker”, Margaret of Anjou, the iron-queen of Lancaster, and Edward the Prince of Wales. Wars of the Roses expands on the award-winning Hammer of the Scots game system by greatly enriching the card deck. “Holding your cards close to your vest” has never meant more. Players can launch or foil conspiracies, bring Scotland into the wars, hire mercenaries, flee into exile, employ spies, bribe neutral nobles, call up the standing army at Calais, mobilize the powerful Northern or Welsh Marches, or even marshal the fickle winds of fate to threaten the best laid plans of the enemy. |
As of mid-February, Columbia was still tracking Wars of the Roses in its GamePlan, a voting system used to measure interest in certain games, so no release date has been planned. (Note that the cover image might change as well.)
Jerry Taylor is maintaining an open design diary on the Columbia Games website, inviting readers to comment on the design and development of the game, while going into incredible amounts of detail about the design. Three parts of the Wars of the Roses Design Diary are available: Issue 1, Issue 2, and Issue 3.
Source: Columbia Games
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Feb 16, 2007 at 11:31 PM in Game News, Boardgame News / 1034
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