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Fellow board-game players,

Board-game Geek is the place to go indeed for questions about a board-game. They have forums dedicated to each game and said forums are also subdivided into "rule", "general", "reviews", etc.

I have printed the PDF for the Tannhäuser yesterday and read through it. It is indeed a very interesting game and once one reads the rulebook, things begin to make sense. What does not help at all is that the rulebook is designed for the game franchise and not the original board only - the one we have at Vague Connections- this means that the number of objectives they mention in the set-up phase is not the same as is available on the board. This is to the extent that the examples given in the rule-book just cannot work as stated!
Many people seem to have been confused by that and others have provided helpful answers on the aforementioned forums.

Another way to look at the stupendous amount of counters in the original box is to see them as being useful for game expansions, namely additional boards. Because with the original board, only three objectives token per side (for a total of six... and not eight as given in the example) can be put on the board, and only... TWO crates, despite having a crap load of those in the box!

It would be nice to try to play this again on the next Monday dedicated to board-games.
It is a "two teams" game, so the 2-10 players sticker on the back of the box is misleading. If we end up only with three players at the next session, one of us would have to have a two character team (one hero, one grunt per side).

Oh, and by the way, the rulebook has been translated to English, and from the names of the people who designed the game, this is very likely a French game.
(Quick use of Bing.fr) Yep, it was a French company that developed it, but it went belly-up and Fantasy Flight Games has taken over the franchise now.

Laurent,