Lancaster is a strategy game by Matthias Cramer. In the year of 1413 – the new King of England, Henry V of Lancaster, pursues ambitious plans: the unification of England and the conquest of the French Crown. The players want to proceed from simply being a lord to the most powerful ally of the king.
Lancaster is a strategy game by Matthias Cramer. In the year of 1413 – the new King of England, Henry V of Lancaster, pursues ambitious plans: the unification of England and the conquest of the French Crown. The players want to proceed from simply being a lord to the most powerful ally of the king. They may achieve this by developing their own knighthood as well as by clever deployment of individual knights in the counties of England, at their own castle and to conflicts with France. In parliament, they try to push laws from which they will benefit themselves most. The Lancaster Big Box includes the Lancaster basic game, the expansions “The new Laws” (1) and “Henry V – The Power of the King” (2) and the Queenie “Reward Tiles”.
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If you bought this in December 2016, make sure you got the big box! I really like Lancaster. And I like the big box better. But be careful! Amazon sent out the regular box in December 2016 with a sticker over the UPC that said “Lancaster Big Box Strategy Board Game”. I think someone put the wrong sticker on, but I thought you should be aware. If you bought the game at the end of 2016 from Amazon, make sure you got the right thing! 🙂 (if it says Big Box on the front of the box, you got the right thing)In general Lancaster is a great game…
Worker placement, area control, voting, great box insert, excellent total package A big box game that is actually worth a big box. Lancaster is a moderately complex worker-placement game with an English historical theme. There are elements of area control, hidden information, and voting among players. The voting (and scheming to sway it in your favor) is honestly my favorite phase of the game. The included expansions feel like natural extensions of the base game, instead of “Let’s see what sorts of counter-intuitive new cards/tiles/rules we can throw in to make it…
Excellent game. Plays 5 in a reasonable time! We have only played the base game so far, but it is excellent. Short quick turns once you get the hang of the order of play. Exciting votes, and pondering over how much to commit to getting a certain board space considering an opponent can bump you by committing higher. Great!Worthy of it’s 2011 Spiel des Jahres award nomination.