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+In June 1520, at Balinghem, there met the young and glorious Kings of England +and of France in a grand and splendid celebration of their mutual friendship +and admiration. There were great feasts and opulent amusements, conspicuous +expressions of deepest and sincerest piety, and fierce tournaments. Each King +outshone the other in turn, so that the world might be astounded at the wealth +and power of each kingdom. So many tents and raiments were made of precious +cloth of gold, that the field is so named. + +

+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. + +

+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. + +
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+Game Design: Amabel Holland.
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+Copyright © 2023 +Hollandspiele + +

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