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I bought a copy of this beautiful game in Essen, so the rules it came with are in German. Although I speak a little German, my English is much better. I downloaded the English rules on the Chili-Spiele website, but they seemed different then the rules in German. The other English rules for shipment to the United States, that I find on BGG are different then both of them. For instance: in the English rules from Chili, it says one can move a pawn even during another players turn. I didn't find this in the German rules (but my German is not so good), and in the English rules from BGG it is presented as a variant.
Can anyone, and preferably the designer of this game, help me out? What rules are best? Thanks in advance!
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Mark Salzwedel
United States
New York
New York
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The main differences in the 3 versions of the rules are in whether you can move your climber up anytime, and whether it can end its turn lower than where it started.
I suggest trying it with different rules until you find a combination that works best for you.
I tried to when translating the rules for the Strategic Space edition to encompass all the rules and make them a little less ambiguous than the designer and a few customers preferred. You will find, for example, the simultaneous movement rule among the alternate rules. Chili is looking into copying our rule organization in its next edition of Die Aufsteiger, so it is likely that will become the standard.
I didn't see any point in restricting moves downward, except that if someone wanted to stall the game, they could move down one turn and up on the next, but that could easily be blocked by other players.
Some players have a rule that you can't examine blocks -- that you must only touch one block on your turn -- but that takes too much of the fun and strategy out of the game, in my opinion.
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Mark Salzwedel
United States
New York
New York
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In the second edition of the game, we added one small phrase on page 5 of the rule book to clarify that you could rotate and/or move a block at the beginning of your turn. There may still be some of the first edition in retail channels.
Here is the link: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/70997/page-5-of-clarified-...
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