Colditz Rules Explanation
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Finally found the game I played when i was a child with my neighbors, thank you for sharing.
My 13yo son bought this from the Tank Museum and has played it with me, my wife and twin 10yo daughters. It's an awesome game.
I used to play that about 40+ years ago, although it didn't have a lot of the extra bits you mention. With doubles, we always played that you used up the dots you had before rolling again. Otherwise you can just wait in a room by a window until you get a huge total and the guards have no chance of catching you. There was also a limit of three opportunity cards at a time. We never used the do-or-die cards since they made no sense.
Even so, I always thought the game was way too easy. If I remember correctly, my record was under 7 minutes (there was no turn counter then).
That prompted us to make it harder. All equipment and escape kits had to be placed in a notebook with one page labeled for each searchable room. When the relevant search card was played, all equipment in that room was confiscated unless the prisoner surrendered a "hideaway" card. Also, the security officer was permitted to shuffle the security and opportunity decks at any time (and obviously would do so after playing a search card). When a POW left the inner courtyard, the player had to put his escape kit and all the equipment he would need in an envelope. If he ran out of equipment - too bad. If he was captured, the contents of the envelope were confiscated.
Very good, clear explanation. We are getting this to the table today. Thank you!
Very instructive! Our group is going to play this for the first time tonight. The adverts look appealing, this video and rules errata/clarifications on BoardgameGeek are helpful. Would be a great game to sub miniatures for rather than dull pawn tokens! (A reissue with figures included would be terrific!)
That was really useful trust me the rule book makes no sense
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Thank's for the answers! Thats the way we played it. Just seemed hard for the prisoners with three players. It's alot up to the dice rools.
I'm not sure if you mentioned it, but you can also force an arrest as an escape officer by moving one of your pieces into/onto a guard. Least I believe this is correct.
Just looked at the rules... you are correct! A great tactic in removing guards as you plan an escape!
Rules clarificaion?
If I roll a 5 or less, but it's a double (double 1 or double 2), I get to roll again, do I still pick up a card?. Likewise, if I roll double 6 twice then a 3, do i get a card for the 3? The rules suggest any movement roll of 5 or less, but only pick up one card per player turn (so if I manage to roll three lots of double 2, I only get 1 card not 3).
Can a guard stay within a room that has an escape attempt token but not remove it? If that is allowed, then guards can basically block rooms where there is an escape attempt token, thus killing the purpose of not being able to enter rooms in the first place
Ive just had a quick look at the video/game board and one difference I've noticed so far to the original version is in this version the Chapel tunnel does not go all the way to the fence. I will probably spot some more differences later.
The chapel tunnel exit was one circle beyond the fence so it did not require a valuable wirecutter card. Good to see an interest in this game on TH-cam, I might find someone in this world who is up for a game :-)
I noticed this too.
@@mpeterll On the original board the Chapel tunnel goes one past the fence but in the new version it only extends one circle after the wall, so they have reduced the tunnel length by 4 or 5 circles. I wonder what the thinking/reason was behind this change.
Thanks for the video. Helped a lot. Try and improve the rule book as quite un-user friendly
opportunity cards, which can not be exchanged or given away, can be played for the benefit of a pow of a different nation (for example move fast, talisman ... j?
when they escape thru the chapel tunnel can the guards outside go thru the barbed wire fence to capture them outside the fence
Hello and many thanks for explaining this to me via video, as I find it easier to understand rules this way rather than reading them. I've ordered mine from Amazon which is arriving tonight and after watching your video twice now, I have just one question.
At 09.58 you mention if on the same turn you get one POW to a target and another following up, you're going to need a 2nd escape kit for him. My question is, you mentioned earlier that the POW"s can't get a 2nd escape kit until they've used the first one, so how can they have a 2nd one when following up, or do you mean whilst they are still inside, as being inside is the only way to get escape kits, unless I'm misunderstanding of which I apologise.
My understanding is that you can use one escape kit to release two pows if they escape in the same turn
Thankyou for this clear explanation. I do have one question. If a PoW is on a walkway can a guard arrest him. My gut says yes because you are not technically finishing your move on the walkway but I know this is gonna be contested. The old rules state where an arrest may/may not take place but not the new rules.
Appeals & Searches: I loved playing this game through the years and bought the new Osprey version for my Thursday night game group....very nice upgrade & great videos from Osprey
Clear up a point on Searches during an Appeal. Can a prisoner be arrested & sent to solitary if he is in dice roll range of guard and in a room normally off-limits to a guard during normal play?
(Any chance of Osprey reviving the old 3M-Avalon Hills line of games like "speed circuit"?)
I would say Yes, a roll call has been called, prisoners failed to turn up, the guards would start searching for them (in the rooms too). However, upon saying that, maybe the exception to that is safe rooms where guards wouldn't go in at all. It's up to the escape commanders to attend it's a risk, they can see where guards are, they might decided it's a risk worth taking or not.
I have some questions. For walkway spaces I understand that the germans cannot end their movement on those spaces. But does it count as ending their movement if a POW is on the space and they get arrested or would their movement end at the commander office. And second question the security Appel Card. If a POW chooses to not go to roll call and a search is rolled does the security officer just count the number of spaces regardless of if they can reach the POW by normal movement.
I have just purchased this and awaiting it's arrival, as it was my favourite game back in the 1970s... As I haven't played it since the 80s I am interested to know if for a two player game it would be more fun and escape more achievable to have one player play two sets (teams) of POWs i.e.two different countries. I seem to remember when I used to play, just having one team was much easier for the guards to target and was very difficult to escape (which of course in real life was much the case). I just wonder with the collaboration of two teams whether it would be more fun, as I figure it would be easier to create strategies to outfox the guards... Opinions please?...
You can buy cheap metal reproduction medals online ... I've bought an Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class for the Germans and a Victoria Cross for the allied winner.
Are Security Guards allowed to block entrances that aren't dark circled marked? (ie by surrounding the dark marked circles)
We've also had some arguments about the Security Officer's search room cards. Do you have to move a guard into the room to search with the card or is it just an 'auto search' and arrest with no guards present?
Option 2: no guard movement required
I have a question does the shoot to kill card have to follow the POWs escape route or can it take the quickest route
I finally found this mystery childhood game from memory! I love this game but could only remember escape from Alcatraz!
I have played the original and wondered what the official rule is for corridors and blue hiding spaces where a guard can be positioned in them to block the player. Good examples are in the single blue hiding place near the main entrance in the outer courtyard and the corridor by the sick bay. Would you have to use another player to force an arrest within the old rules to remove him as in the rules you have to move around other players not over them so otherwise you would be trapped.
Guards cannot end movement on black ringed ‘walkways’ and therefore cannot block the safe blue spaces.
If a player roles a 5 or less, do you have to pick up an opportunity card or can it be movement instead? Also, if you role a double to get someone out of solitary, for example double 6, does that piece have potentially 11 more movement roles, or do you role again and add those die roles to the initial double 6 even if you have got someone out of solitary?
Hi Gareth!
If you roll a 5 or less, you pick up an opportunity card, but you also get to use your roll to move as per usual.
If you roll a double, you first re-roll and add up the total, then decide if you want to spend one movement point to get someone out of solitary.
Hope that helps
Interesting. In the original game, you got a card on a 3, 7 or 11 (hence, no doubles), and I think I remembered that you had to get that on the first roll of the turn, not after getting a double. I might be wrong though - it was a long time ago.
How manny guards are alowed in the inner courtyard while playing?(not at the start). Is it possible for guards to block the doors to the rooms by standing there?(to block prisoners from getting in or out).
All the guards could potentially go to the inner courtyard, yes. But Escape Officers can force an arrest by moving a POW into a guard. Then, it's like a normal arrest: the POW would go to solitaire like normal and the guard would be forced to go to the Commander's Office. This is a way to open paths if the Security Officer tries to box POW's in. Also, most (if not all) of the spaces around a doorway have bold black outlines which means Guards are not able to end their turns there. Hope that helps!
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Just bought a rough one from EBay-an original Parker version with the Swastikas everywhere. Jeez it looks complicated 😳😬
Can the guards go up ropes that have been put in place or only down them?
Guards can never go up ropes, only down them
We still play once a month.
With 6 players, at the beginning of the game the escape officers get an opportunity card and the security officer gets a security card?
Between the 2 inner blocks of solitary confinement there is a passageway only one circle wide.
Is someone allowed to just stay in that passageway blocking all movement along it?
Also, what stops people just walking into the first circle in a room and stopping anyone else getting in?
Or standing outside and stopping the German's getting in to make arrests when they have a room search card?
Basically, what do the rules say about deliberate blocking of entrances and pathways?
How is that handled in the game?
Thanks
Guards cannot block any singles access spaces such as doorways and cannot end a move on such a space.
Any guard blocked by a prisoner in such a space would force an arrest action.
If a guard DID end a turn blocking a single access a prisoner could force an arrest by moving into the guard, sending guard to commandants office, IF such a move was legal.
We played for weeks at a time (2 hours or so a day after school)we even talked strategy at school lol
Maybe I'm being stupid but if you are playing with 6 players so the escape officers only have 4 pawns each then how can they get their second escape kit once one pawn has escaped the castle? If you can't get the second escape kit until the first one is used then you are going to be left with 3 pawns but need to spread them across 4 rooms to get the card.
Actually I've answered my own question! You get an escape kit part for escaping when playing with 6 players. Makes sense now :-)
Just bought this game. Remember playing original back in the 70’s. Couple of questions. On set-up rules state that a personal escape kit card is handed out of each officer. Does this mean POW’s do not have to assemble the 4 kit items as they already have an escape kit card? Confused as video states that escape officers cannot hold TWO escape kits simultaneously. Therefore upon one POW escaping he has to surrender his kit card so between escapes a new kit card has to be assembled.
On setup only equal German guards to escaping nationalities can be located in inner courtyard. Ie British and American teams equal 2 German guards. Once game is up and running can additional German guards be deployed to inner courtyard or does it have to remain at maximum of 2.
Finally do pawns have to count across each circle in inner white appel hexagon area or move they move from any outer edge?
What does the dark circles by the rooms do?
The dark circles are tunnels i think
the gard can't stay their
We always have this dispute if you can please settle it.
When a POW gets out of her outer cooler, can he escape with rope over the wall or must only go into the castle?
Hi Sam,
If a POW has been sent to the outer solitary and later escapes, they may immediately try to escape. However, they must leave solitary into the darkened circle marked by the arrow. Does that clarify the ruling for you?
If you like 'Escape from Colditz', you might like something I saw recently on FB, ‘The Great Alcatraz Escape’ where you play as gang leaders instead of POWs and seems to have a lot more to it - th-cam.com/video/u1JFEZGxTOM/w-d-xo.html
So when playing with 6 players the prisoners from one color that escapes gets one escape kit for free when they escape? Thats because they will only have three prisoners left in there color.
The card you get is for an Escape Kit (part) and only covers two of the four pieces necessary to build a complete kit. So, two of your remaining POW's would need to be in rooms that cover the pieces you're missing to make a complete kit.
If I roll a double six for my first roll then a two and a three (five or less) on my second roll, do I still pick up an opportunity card?
Yes
Quizzlestick has less complicated rules than this game lol
I can't believe I got my Dad and brothers and sisters to play this game in the 70s.
Complicated.
*not made in poland*
you can choose more than 70 if you add more steps, most of these games just attract autism people but not my kind of autism!
I just finished playing THE ORIGINAL not this one this us the updated one and the original one is better
What happened to the swaztika's ....lets not brush history under the carpet guys.👎
This is how a game gets banned in half the world and you get no sales.
Thanks for this in-depth explanation of the game. I was just thinking about buying it. But this helped me make the decision. The game is wa-ay too complicated.
I can imagine playing it once and getting quickly fed up trying to remember all the rules and it quickly ending up being stuck in the back of a cupboard.
Sorry, but the complexity has spoilt it for me. So for that reason, I'm out!
It really isn't. Complicated is stuff like Games Workshop games