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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.