Lautapelit LAU00077 Flamme Rouge Peloton Exp Board Game

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The only problem being is that riders will start the race without the cards used to win the bid and they will also receive two exhaustion cards before the race begins. Adding to this is the fact that you want your sprinteur to at least get some slipstreaming action from your rouleur so generally you want your sprinteur to have a value one less than your rouleur. But yet again, you may not get the cards you need. The setup and race maintenance for either team is incredibly easy and doesn’t interrupt the excitement of the race. If anything, I would say the addition of these AI riders greatly increases my enjoyment of this game. Final Thoughts

While the Cobblestones can funnel things to a crawl, Supply zones (a necessity if adding the fifth and sixth player), opens things up by giving a speed boost (every card played is counted as at least a four) and provides three lanes for possible move making. I love these areas for the savory decisions you have to make. The odds are that most players in the Supply Zone will be moving exactly four spaces, either burning exhaustion cards or playing lower cards and “drafting” on the boost. Knowing (or assuming) that, this could be the perfect opportunity to slip-stream or burn an exhaustion card of your own... or risk playing a card above four to breakaway and make your move.The other main feature of this expansion is that a 5th and 6th player are included, with many variants on using these. For instance you can have a standard 6 player race, but you can also have up to 12 separate players using one rider each. Coupled with the Meteo expansion (which adds random weather), the Peleton expansion for Flamme Rouge adds more options to enhance your racing experience, while not increasing the difficulty. The beauty of Flamme Rouge is that everything makes thematic sense, meaning any racing fan will immediately understand the rules, and within minutes so will everyone else. The Peleton expansion is no different. Place all the Sprinter and Rouleur “exhaustion” cards in their two separate piles in the middle of the table. The game ends at the end of the round where at least one rider had crossed the finish line. The owner of the rider that is farthest over the line is the winner. Each player chooses a colour and takes a pair of bike and rider miniatures, the player board, and the set of energy cards in that colour.

A stage should use 9 straight tiles, and all the sharp and soft turns. Each time you add an expansion tile, you should remove a base game straight tile.

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There are supply zone tiles and a bonus tile which provide a minimum speed of 4 and still allow for slipstreaming. These tiles are also 3 spaces wide. Flamme Rouge is a hand management, racing game designed by Asger Harding Granerud and publish by Lautapelit.fi. If playing a 2-player game with Dummy Teams, we recommend adding a Peloton Team first. If you enjoy it, consider using a Muscle Team instead of, or in addition to, the Peloton Team. I have been told there is an expansion coming out soon and I would very much like to see what that adds to an already great game. If adding several Dummy Teams, let each human player manage a Dummy Team to keep the pace of the game high.