Are You Wanted in the West? Wanted: The Outlaws on Kickstarter
July 14, 2014 by deltagamegirl22
It's time to channel your inner outlaw and saddle up for a fast and fun, Wild West card game on Kickstarter. Wanted: The Outlaws by Bibelot Games is a cool, new game that incorporates slick laser quality into a classic card/dice game.
The game can be played by 1-4 people in just 30 minutes and offers some really amusing content. This is a hilarious western themed game, featuring the best components you've ever seen in a card and dice game! There is a really cool, compact case, metal game pieces, wood dice, and thick, full sized cards! In this casual game you get to lead a posse of bandits on the most daring heists as you fight to be the baddest outlaw in town!
The game play revolves around you building a town. You have to hire characters, perform jobs or report tips. Reporting tips (on your opponents) turns a quick buck for you, and makes their turn more difficult. It will likely really annoy them too, and you will find yourself on the receiving end of their tips on their next turn.
The Outlaws can also be played as a single player game where you get to duke it out against your arch-nemesis: The Sheriff! This game play mode is included in the Rules, and was built to be challenging (you'll win about as often as you do Solitaire). The game play stays the same, but each turn the Sheriff might earn some Rep, or take away your Jobs or Characters!
You can also play with more than 4 players (or just make longer games!). All you'll need to do is shuffle in an extra deck. Each additional deck adds about 30 minutes to the game play and can support up to 4 more players.
If you have extra money to spare (hey it could happen) and you are a huge fan of the wild west, they have a really awesome package with a beautiful old fashioned case with the game that would look AWESOME in a western collection.
Care to channel your inner outlaw in this trip to the West?
Nice looking game with sensible packaging.
The downside… $20 delivery (not EU Friendly) which also exposes the risk of additional customs/import duty/charges on receipt.
So for UK… $38 (game) + $20 (delivery) = $58; that’s around £34 at todays prices – not bad for a game. How much could additional import duty be?
The import dufty is around 5-9% if I remember correctly then there is VAT
The import VAT percentage rate is applied to the total value of the goods. In the case of goods brought in this is the sterling equivalent of the price paid abroad, as shown on the receipt. In the case of goods posted from outside the EU, it is the amount on the Customs Declaration, which includes the price paid for the goods, the cost of transport, postage and packing, insurance and any duty that may be payable.
So let’s round this to worst case (currency fluctuations etc) £40 + VAT (20%) => £48? Almost double the base price…