Rattus Board Game: ” Europe, 1347. A disaster is about to strike. The Black Death reaches Europe, and during the next 4 – 5 years, the population of Europe will be halved. The players settle in the various regions of Europe, while the plague spreads throughout all of the continent. The players gain help from the various classes of the middle ages: The Peasants provide population growth, the wise Monks keep the rats away, the rich Merchants flee when the plague approaches, the warfare conducted by the Knights spreads the plague to new areas, the Witches control the spread through magic and witchcraft, whereas the Kings avoid the plague by staying in their fortified palaces. But the plague does not make any distinction: When the rats arrive, no one can feel safe. When the plague withdraws and the game ends, the player with the highest surviving population wins.” - White Goblin Games-
What’s Cool:
- Nice production quality.
- Great ideas for what each character does.
- Good strategy mechanics.
- Easy to teach and play.
- Great rulebooks. ( Multi-lingual)
- Fast Paced.
What’s Not:
- Maybe the artwork can use some work.
- The Rat pawn should look like a rat, and not a guy from DARK CITY.
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nynick83
July 23, 2012 at 11:53 PM (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I love Rattus! It’s a fairly quick game that even my 4 and 6 year old nephews enjoyed…although at times they wanted to just play with the rats and colored cubes. I ordered the expansion Rattus Africanus, even though I don’t plan on playing many 5-6 player games, but it’s nice to have the option and another character class. I searched high and low for the other expansion: Pied Piper, which I wanted more than Africanus but to no avail. It’s out of print and when I contacted Zman games about it I got the reply “For now we do not plan on re-editing Rattus Pied Piper, but it is not entirely out of the question. But for sure, it will not be for this year.” Bummer. My mom had a suggestion of just printing out the cards on the computer and then having them laminated. What a great idea it was. I found images of all the cards at boardgamegeek.com and I used photoshop and got the cards to be about the same size as what comes with the game, and I even got all the promotional cards you could only get if you went to Essen. I did have to make a few extra pieces (nuns, bishops, and walls) but my dad carved out the walls out of wood and I bought some wooden tokens to fill in for the other pieces. Anyway, my point is, I highly recommend this game!!!
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