As a more strategic alternative to a roll and move game, Flamme Rouge is all about pacing your team and knowing when to gamble on a big card play. If you manage a Club/Teams or host Events and find it time consuming getting information out or adapting to the miriad of changes then this platform can help provide that central admin and communications point so Flamme Rouge is very thematic and definitely feels like a race. You want your rouleur to be out in front of your sprinteur to let them benefit from slipstreaming. Then you have to time your final sprint to crush your opponents. How Does It Compare To Heat I have been told there is an expansion coming out soon and I would very much like to see what that adds to an already great game. The setup and race maintenance for either team is incredibly easy and doesn’t interrupt the excitement of the race. If anything, I would say the addition of these AI riders greatly increases my enjoyment of this game. Final Thoughts

Slip streaming is the act of using other cyclists in front of you to advance at no cost, if you leave one space between you and them. OPEN FIREBOX GAS - FLAT ➔OPEN FIREBOX GAS - LEFT ➔OPEN FIREBOX GAS - RIGHT ➔OPEN FIREBOX GAS - THREE SIDED Allowing for rules or player power variability (such as offering different factions with different ability to choose from). During a race, thinking ahead and trying to minimize adverse effects on your cyclists, while improving your chances of benefiting from slip streaming (or denying it from others) is the crux of the game. Something that can take a few plays to fully understand!Let’s say somehow you are to gain a small advantage. In a game, this could simply mean that you are better at planning, or that you found a good combo of moves to use. If you can increase your chances to win by 1%, making it an unfair coin toss with odds at 51% against 49%, this can dramatically alter the outlook of the game. One unfair coin toss

In Flamme Rouge, there is one part that adds huge variability from one game to the other without affecting individual players chance to win: The board itself! Place all the Sprinter and Rouleur “exhaustion” cards in their two separate piles in the middle of the table.ECO GAS FRAMELESS - FLAT ➔ECO GAS FRAMELESS - LEFT ➔ECO GAS FRAMELESS - RIGHT ➔ECO GAS FRAMELESS - THREE SIDED ➔ECO GAS FRAMELESS - DIVIDER ➔ECO GAS FRAMELESS - DOUBLE FACE ➔ECO GAS FRAMELESS - VERTICAL For big numbers like 1000, the odds of winning a specific number of tosses is narrowly centered on 510, the expected number of win, with about 2.5% of chance of wining exactly 510 of them. Just have a look yourself at the probability of getting any specific number of win, and see how clustered the probabilities are around the expected results : In a follow-up article, I will be adding a thorough exploration of one particular source of the game variation: the modular board of Flamme Rouge…. If there is 1000 coin tosses, well, if there is nothing else to it, and the winner is determined simply by winning a majority of them, you still have a 50-50 chance of winning…