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1993 Ranked #7,915

Ramparts

An abstract tower-building game has rival nobles move counters, form towers, and score from powerful positions. The top piece claims a whole stack’s value, so raiding and relocating towers constantly shift control.

Abstract Abstract Strategy City Building Point to Point Movement Tile Placement

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.34/5

Rating

6.28

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Each player plays one of four power-hungry nobles in the medieval City of Towers. Each strives to posses the most powerful tower—or better still: towers.

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Each player plays one of four power-hungry nobles in the medieval City of Towers. Each strives to posses the most powerful tower—or better still: towers. Since raw materials are in short supply the families rely on raiding their rivals’ stocks. Each player has 20 counters, with one of four different symbols on. Counters are moved around the board in order to form towers, and the towers are moved around the board into scoring locations. As the counters get stacked, the player with the top counter in the tower scores for all the counters in the stack. The game ends when a player has no legal moves, or when any one district of the city reaches its capacity of eight towers.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Rudi Hoffmann

Artists

2
Ingrid Berner Guido Hoffmann

Publishers

4
Cafe Games Pro Ludo PS-Games Schmidt Spiele

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