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Shanghaien - Coming from Schacht, Pelek, Abacus
In addition to Aquaretto, Michael Schacht has another title coming from Abacusspiele early in 2008: Shanghaien, codesigned with Roman Pelek. Here’s a translated description of the game play from the publisher:
| At the start of each round, six cards are lined up between the players with each card corresponding to the numbers 1-6 on a die. The cards show sailors of different nationalities or special actions with which the players can influence the die results or enlarge their team. The player take turns rolling dice and assigning one of them to a card until a player wants to get out and start shanghaiing, at which point the cards are distributed to whoever has more dice on their side.
At the end of the game, the player with the stronger team in a nationality scores the strength of the weaker team in victory points; if a player has a monopoly on a team, then he scores the full value of his own team. |
Shanghaien is for two players only, ages 8+, with a playing time of 20 minutes. Pirates and special-powered dice games have now intersected…
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Jan 28, 2008 at 03:00 PM in News, Convention Preview News / 825
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It looks like an attempt to use the Web of Power scoring system in a two-player game. Interesting… Posted by Larry Levy on Jan 28, 2008 at 03:18 PM | #
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And a little bit of Roma. Posted by Jim Cote on Jan 28, 2008 at 05:52 PM | #
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Yup. Not a bad mix! Posted by Larry Levy on Jan 28, 2008 at 07:04 PM | #
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Looks interesting. Looks like it is time to quickly add *another* title to my watch/want list… Posted by David Reed on Jan 28, 2008 at 07:11 PM | #
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It’ll probably be on MaBiWeb as well. Posted by Jim Cote on Jan 28, 2008 at 07:21 PM | #
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