Burn the Fort

[Aug 2, 2024 – UPDATE]
We are writing from the ancestral homelands of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Osage, and Wyandotte Nations in so-called Indiana. Myself (Princess) and several Burn the Fort volunteers (family and friends) are attending Gen Con 2024 – Klee had confirmed BTF attendance at Gen Con 2024 in late summer 2023, and we are happy to exhibit Burn the Fort and represent the game at the convention. We have had so much support and positive feedback from this awesome community of gamers and we are so grateful to the Gen Con Staff that have assisted us in the months leading up to this convention.

We understand that there are still games that need to be sent to our Gamefound backers. We are still working through the list and our volunteers that have been assisting with this have been working to ensure that the Gamefound and shipping interfaces get updated when they are available. Thank you to our backers for being patient and understanding while we’ve been trying to get through these orders.

The final update is that I have been in contact with our game manufacturer to discuss a second printing of the game. Do I know when they will be done? No. Do I know when they will be received? No. Will I update you when I have that information? Yes, absolutely. In the meantime we will open the shop for a pre-order, please be advised that we do not know when the games will be received from the manufacturer, nor when they will ship, nor when you will receive them. However, we will ensure that our Gamefound backers will receive their orders before the orders of the second shipment start to go out.

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Colonizers have built a military fortress and are waging a brutal invasion of your lands. Can you prevent their wagons from bringing supplies to the fort and burn it to the ground before the train reaches the Golden Spike? 

In Burn the Fort, each player takes the role of a historic warrior fighting to stop colonial invasion of their lands. Players take turns gathering & playing cards, trading, battling wagons, and gathering Fire Tokens and the necessary Arrowhead Tokens to burn the fort.

Everyone starts the game in an alliance but beware, alliances can be broken. To win the game, players can choose how much they wish to work together while facing colonial forces. With each wagon that reaches the fort, the train moves forward towards the Golden Spike which brings mass colonial invasion & an end to the fierce anti-colonial resistance.

Burn the Fort is a semi-cooperative game where you’ll face history
in challenging & empowering ways. 

Game & artwork designed by Klee Benally. 

“Games can be powerful storytelling and teaching tools. Indigenous Peoples have played games rooted in ceremony since time immemorial. I’ve always loved table top games, but I never found one that I personally connected to. Indigenous Peoples and resistance are more often portrayed as threats to settler colonialism or when we’re the occasional protagonist, we are either victims or grossly romanticized.
Nearly every game available on the shelf today is rooted in colonialism and resource exploitation, I wanted to offer an alternative and challenge those narratives. This game focuses on the time period of the so-called ‘Indian wars’ to explore the history and offer an engaging and fun way of deepening our understandings of those times. For some people this will be just another table top game, for others, and this is my intention, it can be one small way to engage and build cultures of resistance and liberation.” – Klee Benally

Check out the game profile on Board Game Geek.