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Cycling board game: flamme rouge

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  1. SRD
    Moderator

    I was sure we had a thread - or at least a discussion - of board games, but can't find one.

    An American-Italian family who live in Denmark, flagged this on FB today, as they know the designer (and at least one of them is a cycling nut).

    https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/199478/flamme-rouge

    http://www.lautapelit.fi/tuotehaku.asp?sua=1&lang=3&reid=1&tn=flamme+rouge

    Annoying, I cannot get the Finnish website to let me buy it. Can anyone else get it to work? (wondering if it is a Mac/Flash sort of problem?)

    Posted 7 years ago #

  2. Frenchy
    Member

    Can anyone else get it to work? (wondering if it is a Mac/Flash sort of problem?)
    Nope. Choosing the English language version, the "Buy Now" button is missing, although it's there on the Nordic version, so I think it's a problem with the page (or it's sold out/not available yet etc.)

    Posted 7 years ago #

  3. SRD
    Moderator

    Odd. I can see a 'buy now' button when I search for it, but when I click it, it takes me to the main page, without a 'buy' button.

    Thanks for trying for me! I've mailed the company. My friend did say she got the last copy in the shop (in Copenhagen), so maybe it is sold out online as well.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  4. shuggiet
    Member

    Seems to be orderable from:

    https://www.boardgamer.eu/produkt/flamme-rouge-engelsk

    Will let you know if it arrives!

    Posted 7 years ago #

  5. SRD
    Moderator

    Nice one shuggiet!

    Posted 7 years ago #

  6. gembo
    Member

    @shuggiet if it arrives are we all coming round to yours for a game?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  7. Roibeard
    Member

    You could also try Snydepels, as long as you can cope with a Nordic version.

    (Courtesy of BoardGamePrices)

    I think the English version may be harder to come by beyond Suggiet's link...

    I'm holding out for Um Reifenbreite which has never had an English printing, but is common in Germany - one of these days I'll pick it up from ebay.de!

    There are quite a few cycling games, but these are some of the best (set the Sort to Rank to reveal the most regarded).

    I confess to enjoying boardgames, and have a few good ones (in amongst the dross!) - if anyone fancies a game drop me a PM!

    Robert

    Posted 7 years ago #

  8. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I'm intrigued as to what a cycling board game could be. I can imagine a version of monopoly with Chance cards like 'You decide to service your hubs before a club ride but one ball bearing falls out and bounces onto the lawn. Spend an hour looking for it with a magnet on a string. Do not go cycling. Order a tub of 500 ball bearings on-line, 491 of which will be thrown out when your shed is cleared after your demise fifty years from now.'

    Posted 7 years ago #

  9. Roibeard
    Member

    I can't speak for Flamme Rouge, however Um Reifenbreite is a racing game whereby you try and manage your team to victory, Tour style (including the possibility of cheating in the Pro rules!). Drafting, breakaways and road conditions are included.

    It does have Chance cards, with text similar to:

    "A witness maintains that you have had an assist from an accompanying vehicle. All protests are in vain."

    "You legs feel as soft as pudding today. You move slower and slower."

    "You have gathered your strength in the slipstream - now you take off!"

    The only decent racing game I have at the moment is a (locally designed) dog sled race Snow Tails, however this has proved a bit ponderous as folk struggle to add two numbers and take away a third (all in the range 1-5)!

    Robert

    Posted 7 years ago #

  10. SRD
    Moderator

    I notice that shuggiet hasn't replied ;) but you know, Akva has board games. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if we brought our own and had a play some afternoon in the new year.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  11. sallyhinch
    Member

    That sounds a bit like Totopoly where you spend the first half of the game training your horses & the second half racing them. Can't remember the details exactly but a friend's family had it when I was a child

    Posted 7 years ago #

  12. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    I remember Totopoly. I think the board was double-sided; training on one side and the racecourse on the other. Perhaps the game could be like Railroader but instead of laying track through a mythical American landscape for trains to follow it could have hapless local authorities trying to repair French rural roads ahead of the peloton.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  13. wingpig
    Member

    Is it about bicycle-racing, or the general use of bicycles?

    "You buy slightly too much on the way home. Lose ten minutes whilst you fiddle about with bungee cords and juice cartons or cereal boxes in a way which will get them home intact but not too tightly-squeezed."

    "Your segregated cycleway proposal incurs the wrath of a concerned local citizen. Miss a turn."

    Posted 7 years ago #

  14. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    'Your fridge full of exotic asthma medicine and frozen human blood turns out to be for your dog, not you. Your psychopathic bullying of everyone within sight goes unnoticed for several years. Miss no turns and collect €6,000,000.'

    Posted 7 years ago #

  15. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    The first half of the game is played out on the roads; the second half in a court-room.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  16. SRD
    Moderator

    i want to play wingpig's version!

    Posted 7 years ago #

  17. gembo
    Member

    this thread has taken on a revealing side to the forum, just before Xmas.

    When I was age to play board games (only joking it says 9-89 on the box) my parents bought me one called Spy Ring, we could never work out the rules and it was shite. You had to put a wee metal stick in the hat of the spy (the spy was a small plastic bust modelled on Erik Honneker), red, green, yellow and blue spies.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  18. shuggiet
    Member

    When I wrench it away from the giftee, then a CCE playing frenzy is a definite possibility..

    Posted 7 years ago #

  19. shuggiet
    Member

    It's arrived. Love the artwork! Shame can't open it ..

    Posted 7 years ago #

  20. SRD
    Moderator

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/21/best-new-board-games-star-wars-destiny-pandemic-iberia-schotten-totten

    Posted 7 years ago #

  21. jdanielp
    Member

    Flamme Rouge looks fun despite The Guardian's criticisms.

    @Roibeard nice to find someone else who owns Robo Rally!

    Posted 7 years ago #

  22. robyvecchio
    Member

    Boardgame/cycling rant.
    I was playing a game over Christmas called The Chameleon.

    Long story short the main component are cards with a topic and a grid of 16 words associated with it.

    On topic "Transport" beside the usual suspects "Car", "Train", "Airplane", there were "Spaceship", "Broomstick", "Magic Carpet".

    Cycling did not make the cut for the designer apparently.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  23. jdanielp
    Member

    Is anyone still interested in a board game meet up and does anyone have Flamme Rouge?

    This is my collection: https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/jdanielp

    Posted 6 years ago #

  24. Roibeard
    Member

    I'm usually up for gaming...

    Feel free to PM me a suggested time - I'm on leave and in Edinburgh until the weekend.

    Feel free to suggest something from my collection too.

    Robert

    Posted 6 years ago #

  25. jdanielp
    Member

    Anybody else want to join us sometime in the new year? I'm keen to try Snow Tails.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  26. robyvecchio
    Member

    I'm always up for games :) here is my collection. collection

    feel free to PM me too.

    Posted 6 years ago #

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