The name of the game program. The rats are going on. and if this happened in medieval Europe, it means nothing other than that the plague has broken out. The competition between the surviving population and the ever-spreading plague rats is thus the central theme of the game.

The game board shows a map of Europe, which is divided into different regions. The number of players is played with more or less regions. In Rattus, each player receives his own people in the form of colored cubes. In each round, he can distribute them on the board and multiply. The number of stones may vary depending upon the number of persons working in the region already existing rats in the form of hidden chips already designed to kick or to grow by moving the Pestfigur.

The Pestfigur, that is the personification of the disease, provides plenty of change in the game situation. increase in the regions adjacent to Pestfigur the rats in proportion to the existing rats in the field of Pestfigur. If there also exists the population, leads to an outbreak of plague. In this case, the rat platelets are turned over and analyzed. The population structure is changing this, but can also survive such an outbreak.

On these, in each round repeating the end of population growth and Pestausbruchs players can take the card stands king, knight, merchant, peasant, monk and a witch influence. Depending on the character by the number of the population or of the rats increased or decreased or otherwise affected. The stands Map King may also include people in the castle to protect them from the plague term.

The stands have cards but without its pitfalls. Firstly, it often happens that at the outbreak of the plague of the owners of one or more items velriert cards more population than the players without cards stands. Or it may be the Estates cards that you have stolen the new players or bringing into the game, not get rid of just like that. The waiver of the characters can do so well the game result, the all-too greedy usage appears from the same negative.

Rattus has an interesting propagation mechanism, which acts as a viral disease sometimes depressing. The annoyance factor is therefore (at least for me) clearly higher than the joy factor. In this respect, the game play is always determined by the fear and concern about the loss of its population. This is the game about playing well and strategists also introduces some influence.

In the 2 - player mode is not the spark jumped over so completely, as you can go well out of the way and caused no conflicts. With more players, the stands are a bit more cards in circulation, although they always seem quite slow in their effect. We had our test laps on the way, the waiting room of a hospital. The plague is not broken

Year: 2010
Publisher: Huch & Friends / White Goblin Games
Author: Henrik and Åse Berg
Graphic: Alexandre Roche
Players: 2-4
Age: 8 years
Duration: approx 45 min

Tags: Oops! & Friends , White Goblin Games