Capstone Games | Watergate | Board Game | 2 Players | Ages 12+ | 30-60 Minute Playing Time, Brown

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Final Score: 5 Stars – Excellent, tight gameplay and a great theme make this a must own for those looking for their next two-player game. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below.

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Even before the Covid-19 lockdown came into force, I had always enjoyed the focus of a good, thoughtful, two player game. That momentum token would be really good for him, but in the same breath, if he were to take that blue evidence token, he could flip it to its black side and place it, blocking links for the editor. You can imagine some of the more powerful event effects, but as an example, one of the Washington Post’s events allows an evidence token to be flipped from face down to face up (on the board) and each side has one event card for each informant, allowing that player to secure the support of that informant. These chunky cardboard tiles feel great to slam down as one side builds a wall and the other tries to smash it down.The Editor player is pinning them face up, trying to make connections from informants to Nixon, while the Nixon player is pinning them face down, essentially creating roadblocks that the Editor will have to go around. At the end of each round, which comprises four or five actions for each player, players gain any tokens on their side. The President of the United States is facing impeachment charges for criminal activities designed to undermine and smear his opponents. The asymmetrical, easy to learn gameplay hit home with me right away and each subsequent play has been more enjoyable than the last. Both players: Look at the side of the initiative card that points towards you and draw that many cards from your personal draw deck: either 4 or 5 cards.

Capstone Games: Watergate - White Box Edition - Historical

Two reporters from The Washington Post (Woodward and Bernstein), among others, uncovered evidence of the involvement, and eventually Nixon was forced to resign, and nearly 50 members of his administration were convicted. However, powerful events often carry the cost of removing the card from the game, meaning they need to be played at a time that maximises their impact. All the complexity is on the cards, so you can hold the rules in your head whilst contemplating your next astounding play. What looks like a third-rate burglary attempt on the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee induces journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post to start a thorough investigation.

The Editor always places picture tiles face up (as recruited informants), while Nixon places them face down.

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In addition to simply securing evidence and informants, the players must then tackle the mild spatial puzzle that is building (or preventing) the linkage on the other side of the board.At any time, both of you may look at face-down evidence tokens that are already on the evidence board. This is the early 1970’s and the Oval Office incumbent is number 37, Richard Milhous Nixon, caught in the crosshairs of a group of investigative journalists racing to uncover the biggest scandal in American political history. It even entered our vocabulary as we began to use the suffix “-gate” to refer to every scandal under the sun. The theme, however, adds so much visual flavour to its components and artwork, as well as knowledge of its historical background, if one is seeking it.