The Red Burnoose Algeria 1857 Pre-Kickstarter Preview, a great mash up of deck building and wargame
Channel: Tabletop Bellhop
Date: 2021-09-12

The Red Burnoose Algeria 1857 combines wargaming and deck-building in a unique way to tell the story of the French invasion of Algeria, specifically the “pacification” of the Kabylia region. This is a cooperative deck-building game where the players control the Algerian people from six different villages attempting to hold off the French colonizers.

The Red Burnoose: Algeria 1857 was designed by Matt Shoemaker and Roberta Taylor. It features very striking artwork from Ahcene Blibek and graphic design from Helen Shoemaker. Karim Ouaras provided Cultural Consulting and editing was done by Nicole Amato.

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Disclosure: Thanks to Hit Em With A Shoe for sending me a prototype copy of this game to check out. No other compensation was provided. 

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Timestamps:

00:00 INTRODUCTION AND SHORT GAME OVERVIEW
02:08 PROTOTYPE COMPONENT OVERVIEW
04:43 OVERVIEW OF PLAY
18:11 OUR THOUGHTS ON THE RED BURNOOSE
33:21 SHOULD YOU PICK UP THE RED BURNOOSE?
35:36 CLOSING 

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From the publisher, 

Join Fadhma N'Soumer in her fight against the invading French armies in the Kabylie region of Algeria in 1857. You will join forces with up to 3 other players in this co-op board game to use deck building and area control elements to survive as the French advance on your villages.

The French are run as an automa deck for 1 to 4 players to defeat. Victory is achieved by outlasting the automa. Players control pieces on the board that they can strategically move between villages to help stop the French advance. Players use the cards in their hand and those they buy from the shared market to acquire new pieces for the board and to manipulate the board state.

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Read the written review and see more pictures of this expansion on the blog:
https://tabletopbellhop.com/game-reviews/unfair-adbw-expansion/

Check out The Red Burnoose on Kickstarter (Launches on Sept 14th):
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/580070528/the-red-burnoose-algeria-1857

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