The year 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of Dr Reiner Knizia’s career as a board game designer – his first published game Complica was released in 1985 in a magazine (although he’d self-published games before then as well). Over the last 40 years, Knizia has designed and published over 800 games, many of which are critically acclaimed. Put simply, Reiner Knizia is the landscape on which all other modern designers build their houses.
To celebrate Knizia’s career and back catalogue, Meeple Mountain are taking things back to basics to consider the ABC of Reiner Knizia: one game for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
This time: The Letter ‘B’.
B – Battle Line (2000)
Knizia’s oeuvre in B-major includes many strong contenders, but it’s 2000’s Battle Line that claims the spot with its tense two-player experience.
In Battle Line, opponents play cards to their side of a line of 9 flags, winning a flag if they have the strongest poker hands of three cards assigned to it. The player who first claims 5 of the 9 flags or 3 flags in a row wins the game. Spicing the mix are tactics cards that mess with the rules, as well as the ability to claim a flag by proving that your opponent can’t win it, saving you from wasting…
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