Not just Othello with cards. – Wars of the Roses - Rosenkönig Review

I held off for the longest time as it looked like a game of Othello with cards thrown in some weird way...but having played it is too cool and not really directly Othello related. Your opponent and you take turns moving the king via cards with the king depositing a token of that player's color. Each card lists a direction and a roman numeral from 1-3. Normally you can only move onto blank spaces, but if willing to use one of your 4 knights, you also have an option to flip an opponent's token over to your side. The key tactic is to try to clump as many of your tokens together so that they are connected to one another in an up-down or right-left manner (i.e. diagonally adjacent doesn't count). Your knights are your aces in the hole! While you usually only start the game with 4, using them strategically to extend overturn an opponent that has placed themselves in the midst of one of your huge continuous territories or just to jump in the middle of one of your opponent's biggest territories to break stuff up, can make all of the difference. It's best to save them into as late of the game as possible although this runs the risk of forcing you to use them in less than optimal ways if their use is the only legal move you have at the moment.
Review by Lord Gek on Wars of the Roses - Rosenkönig.