Haspelknecht: The Story of Early Coal Mining (Saturday Review)

Haspelknecht: The Story of Early Coal Mining, to give it its full title, is a kind of action selection game by Quined Games set in the Ruhr region of Germany. The game is set at a time when the area was still covered by forests and coal was first discovered close to the surface. During the game your task is to dig up that coal until its depleted and you have to start digging deep pits to get to this precious resource. The great mechanism in this game is the action selection element, where you draw all tokens of one colour from one of a number of common pools at the start of each round. These tokens are then used to activate your workforce and develop new technologies. It sounds simple, but it creates a really complex, interesting game with lots of options and very few player interaction.

Read the full article here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2018/12/01/haspelknecht/

Links

• Video review: https://youtu.be/DVzfQ_v-Gz8
• Brief impressions video: https://youtu.be/5p29yZ8PNUY
• Podcast review: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/haspelknecht-review-final.wav
• Rahdo Runthrough video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBoQ0PN2CGs

Intro Music: Bomber (Sting) by Riot (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/)

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