Mayfair Games is preparing to release two new Phalanx Games, Go West! and  Revolution: The Dutch Revolt 1568-1648.   Mayfair recently became the American agent for Phalanx Games (see 'Mayfair to Represent Phalanx'), one of Europe's premier board game companies and these two releases are the third and fourth games announced.  Go West! takes its name from Horace Greeley's famous admonition to the youth of late 19th Century America.  Players in the game, which retails for $30, represent shrewd businessmen who benefit from passing wagon trains, and the board is a giant map of the U.S. divided into various regions stretching from New England to California.  Designed by Leo Colovini, Go West! is a game for 2-4 players, aged 10 and up, and it takes approximately 45 minutes to play.

Revolution: The Dutch Revolt 1568-1648 (MSRP $85) is a game that requires considerably more sophistication.  Designed by Francis Tresham, Revolution can accommodate up to five players, ages 12 and up, and requires four to eight hours to play.  It is a game of skill in which each player represents one of the main factions involved in the 80-year war, the Catholics, Habsburgs, Nobility, Burghers, and Reformers.  The game is not a detailed military re-enactment of the Eighty Years war.  It does contain elements of warfare in the form of battles and sieges, but success in the game is built on economic, religious and political control in an immensely complex situation with a constantly shifting balance of power caused by temporary alliances between factions.  Revolution is a prime example of the sophisticated European board games that provide great challenges (and learning experiences) for skillful players.