Mad Zeppelin: A game by Olivier Pauwels
1890. At the height of the industrial revolution, the Great Empire is about to take delivery of many secret crates from its colonies. These crates contain all the Emperor needs to strengthen his rule on the Empire: steel, coal, ore, and above all: gold!
For security reasons, the Emperor himself has hand-picked the crew of the Nostria, one of the armoured zeppelins of the imperial fleet. However, neighbouring nations are organizing the resistance, and traitors are secretly boarding the airship to thwart the Emperor’s plans.
What’s Cool:
- Really nice artwork and theme.
- Lots of different characters.
- Each character has his strengths and weaknesses.
- Each character has a story.
- Good production quality.
- Easy to read rule book.
- It’s Portable.
What’s Not:
- Some of the abilities need more explanation.
- First games take longer since players need to read and choose each characters.
- There is a possibility of drawing 6-7 journey cards in the first couple of turns.
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spiderfingers86
October 28, 2012 at 2:34 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
When first played, my gaming group hated this game, felt like a very messy and unfinished version of Citadels. With no real disciplined method to control the flow of character selection, it felt that it could have gone one or two more times around the playtesting table before releasing this game.
But the artwork was so nice and the components were so neat that we knew there was a game in here somewhere so we revamped the game and even designed an expansion to it and now we love it. Has a totally different feel than Citadels now with a unique twist on character selection that we added.
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