Here I stand

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Here I stand
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Game data
author Ed Beach
graphic Rodger B. MacGowan , Mark Simonitch
publishing company GMT Games ,
Udo Grebe Game Design
Publishing year 2006 (English original), 2010 (German)
Art card-based wargame
Teammates 2-6
Duration 180-360 minutes
Age from 12 years

Awards

Charles S. Roberts Award 2006: Best Pre – World War II Boardgame

Here I Stand: Wars of the Reformation 1517–1555 is a strategy wargame for two to six players released by GMT Games in 2006 . It is a card-based board game that is about the Reformation . The German version was published in 2010 by Udo Grebe Gamedesign. The playing time is about three to six hours. In 2017 the game was published in a new edition under the title Here I Stand: 500th Anniversary with a small expansion.

Game description

Here I Stand is a card-based wargame in which players battle for religious and political influence during the early 16th century, during the Reformation. In the game the players take over one of the six factions, either the Habsburgs , the Ottoman Empire , England ( Church of England ), France , the papacy or the Protestants. The game begins in 1517 and ends in 1555. It is divided into nine rounds, each of which depicts four years of history.

In each game round each player plays one of his cards one after the other. As in many other card-based board games, such as Balance of Terror , each card has a value called Command Points. These points can be used to carry out various political, religious, or investigative actions. Options for this would be to move his armies or fleets, to besiege fortresses, to found overseas colonies, to hold religious debates or to burn heretical books. Alternatively, there are various events on the cards that can be played instead of the command points. These can either be actual historical events, such as the Council of Trent, or general events, such as bribing enemy mercenaries.

The winner of the game is the first to receive 25 victory points or the person who was able to collect the most victory points at the end of the game. Victory points can be achieved in different ways, each of the six factions has slightly different conditions to get victory points. Examples of how to get victory points can be the control of important cities or winning elections for electors, exploring the New World, the death of opposing religious leaders, building castles or cathedrals or finally successful pirate expeditions.

publication

Here I Stand was first published in 2006 by the US publisher GMT Games . The game was designed by Ed Beach, Matthew Beach and Dave Cross. In 2010 GMT Games brought out a new edition of the game, which was published by Udo Grebe Gamedesign as a German translation. In 2017 the third edition of Here I Stand appeared, which was slightly revised and published with a small expansion of six additional cards under the title Here I Stand: 500th Anniversary .

A thematic sequel called Virgin Queen , the title alludes to the English Queen Elizabeth I , covers the second half of the 16th century and was also published by GMT Games in 2012.

reception

In 2006, Here I Stand won the Charles S. Roberts Award in the Best Pre – World War II Boardgame category . The game was also nominated for the Golden Geek Award in 2006 and 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GMT Games: Here I Stand 500th Anniversary Reprint Edition
  2. ↑ ConsimWorld. 2007-08-06. 2006 CSR Award Winners: archived from the original on March 2, 2009.

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