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@@ -8,19 +8,6 @@ and power of each kingdom. So many tents and raiments were made of precious cloth of gold, that the field is so named. <p> -This game was created to commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the -world’s most famous three-week party, in which King Henry VIII of England, and -Francis I of France, spent ridiculous amounts of money and resources to peacock -at each other. Through smiles made of gritted teeth, the game’s two players -will express friendship: each action they take will give their opponent a tile -that they might use to score. Scoring usually entails removing the tile from -the game, so each player must take care to maximize their scoring opportunities -while either denying them to their rival, or forcing their rival to score -before they’re ready. Once the game is underway, players are generally given -only two options, and both of those options are usually painful - even and -sometimes especially when they score you points. - -<p> A sort of subversion of the point salad paradigm, The Field of the Cloth of Gold harkens back to the feel of the classic German games of the 1990s: simple, elegant, austere, and politely vicious. |