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Blackmail the printer. Threaten the innkeeper. Bribe the priest. Welcome to Revolution!
Secretly bid against your opponents to gain victory points, control territories (worth victory points at the end of the game) and collect more Gold, Blackmail, and Force tokens for the next round of bidding! Will you try to control the tavern or the fortress? The harbor or the plantation? Knowing where to push for points – and where to back away and let your opponents fight – is the key to victory. Whoever has the most victory points at the end of the game wins. It's a game of bluff, counter-bluff, and surprise!
Bidding tokens have different shapes and colors for easy identification. Colorful cardstock shields keep your bids private, and also provide a handy rules reference during the auction. Brightly-colored wooden blocks allow players to see, at a glance, who controls which colonial-themed territories.
Revolution! is for three or four players. The rules can be taught in minutes, and a complete game takes less than an hour. Each new game lets players find new strategies and tactics.
Get ready for Revolution!
- Large scope with replayability
- Rich campaign structure
- Complexity may be intimidating for casual players
- campaign-scale wargame with multi-day focus
- Battle of the Bulge, early 1945, campaign scope
- integrated scenario-campaign with layered decisions
- Ardennes Offensive
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- campaign-based systems — scenarios are patchable into a larger campaign experience
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Older games from pre-2000 did very well.
- Nostalgia didn't do very well against gameplay in this case because the 1981 version got 63% of the vote.
- There is something to be said for games that play Fast play quick and easy to get to the table.
- Accessibility was a factor in there because one of the goals of this channel is to broaden the games that people play.