The black die serves a second function which I’ll cover in the next section. A player holding an Intrigue token must raise the matching disaster level by one before discarding the token. Each Intrigue token has a single matching twin and displays one of the disasters. When a black die rolls up as a five or a six, each player must collect an Intrigue token (yet another new feature). In addition to the lineup of colors that correspond to the card, worker, and disaster colors, Hamburg also introduces a new die color: black. There are even storage locations for the various workers a player might acquire. Once they all slide over, the disaster occurs.
These have been replaced by several square tokens that slide on a recessed track. Gone are the pie-slice disaster tokens of yesteryear. These double-layered boards feature recessed locations for each player’s walls (which replace the old canals), majority markers, and disaster tokens. The old Hamburg is on the left and the current version is on the right.Īdditionally, Hamburg includes player boards where Bruges did not. I was among those disgruntled masses initially, but the new artwork has grown on me. The artwork presented in the original Kickstarter campaign is very different from the artwork that’s present in the game now and that change rubbed some people the wrong way. This shift in focus necessitated a complete overhaul of the artwork, a shift which was met with some controversy. Functionally, Hamburg’s buildings are stand-ins for Bruge’s people. Hamburg is about the evolution of the titular city itself via the construction of buildings. Bruges was more about attracting denizens to the titular city you’d already built and finding homes for those folks. The most visible difference is the game’s theme. But there are some key differences that make Hamburg stand out as (SPOILER) the clearly superior game when the two are compared side by side. If that’s all there was to Hamburg, I’d treat it the way I treated Jórvík and The Speicherstadt. Players have the option to move up the central track on the main board by paying money equal to the combined values of the dice showing one or two pips. The players draw back up to five cards in hand. The round structure is the same as it is in Bruges. Unlike Bruges which is played over an indeterminate number of rounds, Hamburg is played for exactly eight. Otherwise, let’s dive in and discuss Hamburg, shall we? The Basics
#THE BLACK MASSES GMAE FREE#
What’s Changed? And What’s New? If you’re already familiar with the answers to these questions and just want to know what I think, feel free to skip ahead to the Thoughts section. No, in this review I am going to focus on those things I mentioned earlier. You can refer to my review of Bruges if you need a refresher. This review isn’t going into the particulars of how the game is played. And there’s even some new content to boot. Yes, there’s a new skin, but the entire game has been revisited and reworked. Those two games are so much alike that when I reviewed them, I simply lumped them together into a single review.īut Hamburg is more than just a retheme. Back in 2016, he created Jórvík, a retheme of his previous title The Speicherstadt. Stefan Feld isn’t new to rebooting his games. Today we’re going to talk about 2022’s Hamburg, his 33rd game.Ī reimplementation of the Feld classic Bruges, Hamburg is the first game in Queen Games’s Stefan Feld City Collection (SFCC). I’m such a fan, in fact, that when I noticed there were no active Stefan Feld fan groups on Facebook, I created one of my own. Over the years, I have hunted down and collected every title he has ever put out.
#THE BLACK MASSES GMAE SERIES#
In this series of reviews, I am working my way backwards through Stefan Feld’s entire catalogue. Is it just a Bruges clone or do the changes go deeper? Join David as he discusses the first game in the Stefan Feld City Collection: Hamburg.
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