Web of Power (2000)

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Designer	Michael Schacht (I)
Artist	Franz Vohwinkel
Publisher	999 Games Goldsieber Rio Grande Games
Year Published	2000
# of Players	3 − 5
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 3 players Recommended with 3, 4, 5 players (59 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	45 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	12 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (7 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (17 voters) [poll]
Honors	2000 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2001 International Gamers Awards - General Strategy; Multi-player Nominee 2001 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee
Subdomain	Strategy Games (32 voters) [vote]
Category	Medieval Territory Building
Mechanic	Area Control / Area Influence Card Drafting Hand Management Route/Network Building
Expansion	China: AD 850 China: Greece China: Mars China: North America China: Scandinavia Kardinal & König - Das Duell Web of Power: The Vatican Show More »
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Primary Name	Web of Power
Alternate Names	Kardinaal & Koning Kardinaal en koning Kardinal & König Kardinal und König
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Players struggle for influence over regions of Europe by placing two different type of control markers, Monasteries and Advisors. Monasteries are the basic placement, with the goal of securing a majority in a region or chain of monasteries or even decent points from second place. The placement of the Advisors is more restricted as the total number of Advisors in a region is limited by the majority player's number of monasteries. The game is played in two rounds and is very fast paced.

Online Play

http://www.boardgames-online.net (turn-based)

implemented bonus maps: China, Hellenia, Skandinavia, America, AD 850, Life on Mars, Big in Japan, Soviet Union

http://www.onlinebrettspiele.de/kuk/default.asp?l=en (Against AI)

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China

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Very Good	$55.00	16-Jan-2012
Like New	$60.00	26-Dec-2011
New	€43.90	11-Nov-2011
Good	€29.00	18-Sep-2011
Very Good	£40.00	1-Jul-2011
Very Good	AU $70.00	24-May-2010

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Awards

2001 International Gamers Awards Nominee.
2001 Nederlandse Spellenprijs Nominee.
2000 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.
2000 Spiele Handbuch, Recommendation

Online Play

BrettspielWelt (real-time)
onlinebrettspiele.de (online AI)
Michael Schacht web page (turn-based)

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Kardinal & König

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German edition

Publisher: Goldsieber

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Year: 2000

Product Code: 6189657

Size: 11.50 x 8.86 x 2.52 inches

1.92 pounds

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Dutch edition

Publisher: 999 Games

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Year: 2000

Product Code: 999-KAR01

Size: 11.50 x 8.90 x 2.40 inches

1.98 pounds

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Rio Grande English edition

Publisher: Goldsieber, Rio Grande Games

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Year: 1999

Size: 11.50 x 8.86 x 2.40 inches

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Web of Power Uitleg & Review (NL)

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1	General time to play?	2012-02-10	scottandkimr	4
6	News New February Map available: Venezia	2012-01-29	mschacht	0
5	News 12 months of China online	2011-07-01	mschacht	10
6	News New China (WoP) maps in online test	2011-06-26	mschacht	1
2	Sessions Web of Power - The Boardgame!	2011-02-13	Warhammer	0
8	News New online implementation in beta-test	2009-05-27	mschacht	10
6	Sessions Web of power session report - first play - a lot of subtlety in a short play time.	2009-05-22	Uncle G	5
1	Rules Trade to cards as a wild for the same color?	2008-02-26	kamf	3
3	Variants 2-Player Variant for Web of Power	2008-02-25	dawnelamb	8
1	General Can someone post a card manifest please?	2007-12-23	Duglis	3

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0	Web of Power: The Vatican Rules Rules. All of them.	2011-04-11	garygarison	0
1	Kardinal & König - Das Duell General King Place First Special Card	2005-09-05	peacmyer	1
1	Web of Power: The Vatican Rules Question on cloister scoring	2005-07-08	Chris Sjo...	2
0	Web of Power: The Vatican General Size of board	2005-02-28	Znapperhead	1
0	Kardinal & König - Das Duell General Size...	2005-02-28	Znapperhead	1
0	Kardinal & König - Das Duell General Great way to play 2-player KuK	2004-08-03	sodaklady	0
3	Web of Power: The Vatican General which translation is correct?	2004-06-21	toguopp	1
0	Kardinal & König - Das Duell General Rule Specification "Chance one card"	2004-03-28	MightyThor	0
0	Kardinal & König - Das Duell Sessions Session Report	2002-11-20	lorna	1

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Cheat-sheet and PnP ideas for 4 expansions

Summary rules in cheat-sheet format and PnP ideas for Forts (from China rules), Vatican, Einflusskarten and Embassies

pdahl

2011-04-20

Web of Power Tuckbox

This is a tuckbox with minimal graphics to hold all the cards for the game. I used the generator at http://tuckbox.gameupdates.com to create the template.

Verkisto

2008-09-07

Greece Map Board for K&K by Liumas and Sightreader

Greece map board in high resolution (24.26 x 16.57 inches). Designed to be used with [GameID=491] cards and components. Includes a card conversion map key and K&K place name labels in small print. (PDF)

Liumas

2008-08-07

2 Player Variant for Web of Power

This is a 2-player variant for Web of Power

dawnelamb

2008-02-25

Web of Power - Greece ver 1_1 bmp.bmp

Web of Power: Greece Map, improved resolution bitmap file, 5 meg

sightreader

2007-01-08

kardinalundkoenig.wav

German pronunciation

flieger

2006-06-15

WebOfPower Dutch.doc

Rules in Dutch

LordT

2006-05-12

Kardinal & König - Quick Reference.pdf

1-page rules summary incl. Duell and Vatikan expansions

delta1119

2005-06-10

Reglas.doc

Spanish rules (reglas en español)

jcorral

2005-05-08

Kardinal and Konig - English Rules 1-3.rtf

Kardinal and Konig English Rules V1.3 by Ivan Hanley - lots of clarifications added

Ivan

2005-01-18

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Board Game Rank:	176
Strategy Game Rank:	106
Num Ratings:	2497
Average Rating:	7.37
Standard Deviation:	1.34
Num Views:	168374
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.5
Fans:	26

Personal Comments:	899
Users Owning:	2064
Users Wanting:	203
Users Trading:	25 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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China: AD 850

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Num Ratings	5
Average Rating	7.60
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Year Published	2011

China: Greece

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Average Rating	7.33
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Year Published	2001

China: Mars

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Average Rating	6.50
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Year Published	2011

China: North America

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Num Ratings	5
Average Rating	7.60
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Wishlist	2
Comments	4
Year Published	2011

China: Scandinavia

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Average Rating	7.17
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Num Owned	2
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Comments	6
Year Published	2011

Kardinal & König - Das Duell

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Num Ratings	76
Average Rating	6.96
Average Weight	2.64

Num Owned	218
Prev. Owned	10
For Trade	8
Want in Trade	14

Wishlist	12
Comments	33
Year Published	2002

Web of Power: The Vatican

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	132
Average Rating	6.67
Average Weight	2.55

Num Owned	478
Prev. Owned	32
For Trade	19
Want in Trade	15

Wishlist	21
Comments	70
Year Published	2001

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Dutch rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/1388.pdf	2011-12-18
Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=3176&zoekcr...	2011-12-18
Dutch user reviews on bordspelmania.eu	http://www.bordspelmania.eu/spellen/detail/kardina...	2010-09-03
English Review on Spotlight on Games	http://spotlightongames.com/list/nights/k.html#kar...	2010-06-04
Web of Power @ michaelschacht.net	http://michaelschacht.net/flkardi0.html	2010-04-10
Web of Power Play-by-Web	http://michaelschacht.net/pbm/modules.php?name=GM_...	2010-03-15
English review from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/W2004/flashbackweb.h...	2009-09-22
Dutch review on Spellengek	http://www.spellengek.nl/recensies/K/kardinaalenko...	2009-08-17
Dutch review on AnderSpel	http://www.anderspel.nl/kardinalb.html	2009-08-17
Dutch review on Truus & Truus	http://www.truusentruus.nl/recensie/recensie.php?r...	2009-08-17