Bot Players For 'Flamme Rouge: BMX'

Flamme Rouge has a number of rules for bot players/teams, hat allow you to play the game solo, or with higher team counts than the number of players. I thought that Flamme Rouge BMX could do with the same; it means that my wife and I can play with all four riders on the board even when there's just the two of us.

We did try with the bot riders drawing tokens. On the first two track sections they would always pick the second highest one they drew and then the highest on the final two sections. They add exhaustion tokens as normal. This worked, but it was a fiddle having the two extra bags in play and it slowed things down. I decided that something more in keeping with the fast nature of the game was in order.

You Will Need: A single D6

Any players select their speed tokens as normal, and then reveal them. Move the bikes in the usual order. When you come to move a bot bike, roll a D6. If the score is 1-5 then the bike moves that many spaces. If the score is 6 then the bike moves at the speed of the highest token played by any live player.

eg I play a 4 and my wife plays a 2. The bot rolls a 6, so gets to move 4 spaces.

Resolve exhaustion as normal. If a bot gets one or more exhaustion tokens then put them next to the bike on the board. When a bike with an exhaustion token moves it discards one of them and moves one space less than the roll dictates (to a minimum of 1)

eg A bot bike has two exhaustion tokens. It rolls a 4. It discards one token and moves 3 spaces.

eg A bot bike has an exhaustion token. It rolls a 6 and the highest player token is a 3. The bot moves 2 spaces as its normal speed from the roll counts as 3.

On the Downhill board a bot simply gets a +3 to its roll, and then subtracts one if they have exhaustion. If they roll a 6 then they copy the highest player token played and add 3.

eg A bot is on the downhill board. They roll a 6. The highest player token is a 2. The bot moves 5 spaces.

eg A bot is on the downhill board. They roll a 6. A player is also on the downhill board and has played a 3 and a 2. Their 3 is the highest player speed token placed that turn. So the bot moves 3 + 3 = 6 spaces.

I have played multiple solo games with this system against three bot bikes. I consistently come second; one of the bikes always pulls off an epic finish and just pips me at the post.