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The old general returned to the kingdom on the eve of the heir’s tenth birthday. He brought with him a book—or rather, what looked like a book from the outside.
The queen sat down with her child the next day, and together they opened the book. They found that the insides had been carved out and filled with more coins for their game, as well as some letters and wax seals. They took their chest from the shelf, opened it, and began to play...
The chivalric system was a huge part of medieval warfare. Various offices of state were handed out to the highborn of the land, from Bannermen that surrounded kings and queens, to Earls and Heralds enacting their liege’s will across the realm. Bishoprics had much land and influence associated with them, and were sought after position for nobles.
Can you add these four new influential units to your force, and use royal proclamations to your advantage, to once again triumph in this masterful game of tactical warfare?
Nobility is an expansion for the highly acclaimed War Chest.
—description from the publisher
- Award-winning expansion
- Expected more poker chips
- Undaunted
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Bag Building — Implies the core mechanic of War Chest involves drawing components from a bag.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- I played Ragusa with Marty he taught me the game or rather he taught me some alternate universe version of the game
- there were so many rules mix-ups I didn't even know what was going on half the time
- I'm sorry I cannot in good conscience give out this award I'm gonna have to hang on to it
- This is one of those games that normally would have probably not been my game of the year if I would have played it
- it deserves my game of the year
- Raccoon Tycoon is from designer Glen drover from forbidden games and it is a market commodities game where you are trying to get the best prices for the commodities in the game
- Unbelievable oil paintings brought the game to life with with incredible anthropomorphic animals in Victorian dress
- it did give the game a cuddly fuzzy feel that I think makes the game a little bit more appealing to non-gamers as well as gamers
- Raccoon Tycoon that came out earlier this year and yet that was very much a contention for my my top game of the year
- it's just so well done
- 2019 was just a great year for games especially more of the the mid-level like euro type games
- we really dope into a lot of really really good two-player games in 2019