River Horse Snap Up Rights To Hunt For Red October
November 5, 2015 by brennon
River Horse is bringing another intellectual property to the tabletop this time with a Cold War theme. The Hunt For Red October will be one of their upcoming board games on Kickstarter...
As the announcement says, "if Cold War espionage and intrigue is your thing...", well yes, yes it is Mr River Horse. It will be fun to see in what form this board game comes together. I would assume it will involve a fair amount of bluffing and plotting between players where two sides are looking to find out what's going on with a Russian submarine...
If you want a refresher on the film, check out the video above.
Will you be keeping an eye out for more on this?
"I would assume it will involve a fair amount of bluffing and plotting between players where two sides are looking to find out what's going on with a Russian submarine..."
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Interesting
…it could be!
I wonder if it will be based on the original board game. The rules were simplistic but if got the flavour of 80s naval warfare across fairly well. It played quite fast adding a little drama to it.
Yup. This.
From the River Horse newsletter last month:
“This game is set ONBOARD Red October, and it’s kinda like: “is this player really a defecting officer? Or has he changed his mind? Does he really want to surrender to the US navy or does he want to launch the ICBMs instead? Or is he a saboteur/KGB agent?”
…while at the same time you have to dodge both US and USSR attempts at sinking you…”
We have a Facebook group up and running here, come ‘shay’ hello (best Captain’s accents only).
Sounds like an adaptation of Battlestar board game or something?
That could work. Makes the game format more accessible to people who aren’t sci-fi and BSG junkies (Red October is a single movie/book, as opposed to several TV seasons, so lore wise its far less daunting).
Well, they need something else to do in case Terminator tanks.
…ouch!
Dam I still have the first game that came out when the movie did it was more a north Atlantic navy ship/fleet game with card board cut outs of the ships, planes, jets, and helicopters. I think I may have played it about 6 times .
I heard most of the game is circling a spot of ocean in a helicopter until you the play the eventcard – “Listen, mister, if you don’t get me on board that goddamn submarine, that just might be what you’ll have! You got me? Now you have ten more minutes’ worth of fuel, we stay here ten more minutes!” Then you win. Which means you “will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck… maybe even a “recreational vehicle.” And… Read more »
Aaah, the silent war, a war as current today as Oriskany’s Ukraine. I was really hoping for a little more submarine fleet action. Strange little place up next to RAF Menworth hill in Harrogate HMS something or other com’s centre thought to be our naval communications to our own boats. (Boats People not ships). Friend was a first engineering officer on one of ours till he retired, nice bloke hell of a chess player, lectures at a University in New York last I knew, I was working from the UN at the time. Other than that I have absolutely no… Read more »
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