City Conquest

20 factions

Each team picks a faction: a group with its own story, strengths and characters.

• Musketeers

  “All for one, one for all”

  The king's musketeers in their blue tabards guarded Louis XIII and XIV, and Alexandre Dumas made them legends.

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  Revolutionaries of 1789

  “Liberty, equality, the next zone”

  In 1789 Parisians stormed the Bastille and changed the world; the tricolour cockade and the red cap became their signs.

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  Cancan Dancers

  “High kicks, higher scores”

  Since the 1890s the Moulin Rouge in Montmartre has danced the cancan: frilly skirts, high kicks and a lot of noise.

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  Impressionists

  “Paint the light, not the thing”

  Monet, Renoir and Morisot painted outside, in quick strokes of light. Their water lilies hang in the Orangerie.

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  Baguette Bakers

  “Up before the sun”

  Paris eats millions of baguettes a day. Its bakers start in the dark, and every year the best baguette of the city is chosen.

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• Bouquinistes

  “Every bank has a story”

  Along the Seine the bouquinistes sell old books from green boxes on the quay walls, a tradition from the 1500s.

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  Notre-Dame Builders

  “Stone by stone to the sky”

  Notre-Dame was built from 1163 over almost two hundred years; after the fire of 2019 craftspeople rebuilt it the old way.

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  Bell Ringers of Notre-Dame

  “Ring out over the Seine”

  Notre-Dame's great bell Emmanuel weighs thirteen tonnes; its ringers climbed hundreds of steps to swing it.

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  Courtiers of the Sun King

  “Shine, always shine”

  Louis XIV, the Sun King, ruled from the Louvre before Versailles. His court lived on wit, fashion and very big wigs.

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  Salon Philosophers

  “Dare to know, over coffee”

  Voltaire, Diderot and Émilie du Châtelet argued in Paris cafés and salons; the Encyclopédie tried to collect all knowledge.

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• Perfumers

  “Follow your nose”

  Paris made perfume an art: the perfumer, the 'nose', blends hundreds of scents into one bottle.

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  Couture Ateliers

  “Cut, stitch, strut”

  Paris invented haute couture in the 1800s. In the ateliers seamstresses, cutters and models make fashion by hand.

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  Grand Chefs

  “Yes, chef!”

  Paris made the restaurant famous and the kitchen brigade: the chef, the sauce cook, the pastry chef, all at speed.

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• Catacomb Explorers

  “There's a second Paris below”

  Under Paris run hundreds of kilometres of old stone quarries; explorers map the tunnels with lamps and chalk.

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  Parisii Boatmen

  “Tossed but never sunk”

  The Parisii and their boatmen traded on the Seine before Rome came. Their ship is still on the city's arms with the motto 'Fluctuat nec mergitur'.

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• Montmartre Street Artists

  “A portrait in five minutes”

  On the Place du Tertre in Montmartre artists draw portraits of passers-by, as Picasso's neighbours once did.

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  Paris Fire Guards

  “Save or perish”

  The Paris fire brigade has rushed to every fire since 1811, including the Notre-Dame fire in 2019.

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  Eiffel's Riveters

  “Two and a half million rivets”

  The Eiffel Tower went up in two years for the 1889 World's Fair: 18,000 iron parts held by millions of rivets.

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  Balloonists

  “Up, up and over”

  In 1783 the first people flew in a hot-air balloon over Paris; in the siege of 1870 balloons carried the post out of the city.

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  Café Waiters

  “Tray up, never spill”

  Parisian café waiters even have their own race: the 'course des cafés', running through the city with a full tray.

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Two ways to play

Without a game master

You play on your own. The organiser opens the game master page, chooses the default language and the playing time, and starts the game. From then on everything runs by itself on every phone: the zones, the chests, the merchant and the final count.

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With a game master

Someone leads the game from the game master page: follows every team live with its points and zones, sends messages to all teams, adds 15 minutes or stops the game, gives a team a power-up or puts a chest right next to it, and looks at the photos and videos. The game master never sees the answers.

€199.00 including 5 teams, €19.95 per extra team

The organiser sets up the game on the game master page (the default language and the playing time) and starts it for all teams.

Every player can pick and switch the language on their own phone.