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Cyclades Hades

Hades or Heroes and Creatures

Players control Sparta, Athens Corinth, Thebes or Argos, and use wealth, troops and good relations to the gods for prestige. By building, intellectual advancement or conflicts you try to be the first to own two metropolises. In each round you place mythological creatures, influence the hierarchy of the gods, earn income, donate sacrifices to one of the gods and implement actions, which depend on the hierarchy and the available gods.

In Cyclades Hades there peace on the island but it is rumored that Hades will return with his phalanxes of Undead and Ghost ships; all city states must prove their abilities in four modules to recruit powerful heroes and to win the favor of the gods. Free Positioning: You bid for starting positions and use only components from the core game only. Hades & His Undead: In the God phase you roll two combat dice for the Hades track, at value 9 Hades enters the game, replaces one of the gods and allows a player to recruit Undead. At the end of the round Hades disappears and the track is reset to 0. Heroes and Creatures: A hero is recruited like a mythological creature and remains in play while he lives and his maintenance is paid for. Divine Favors: When Hades is not in play you draw a Divine Favor card for the active god immediately above Apollo and receive the additional favor with the standard one. A priestess can be used to pay for hero maintenance or to keep a creature for one more round.

Cyclades Hades offers an interesting and very well working expansion; due to the bidding for the starting position in Module 1 or with Hades the game becomes more conflict-focused.

Players: 2-5

Age: 13+

Time: 90+

Designer: Bruno Cathala, Ludovic Maublanc

Artist: Miguel Coimbra

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Editions du Matagot 2011

Web: www.matagot.com

Genre: Resources management game

Users: For experts

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Needs core game to play

Four different modules

Conflicts are easier due to bidding for starting position and Hades

Compares to:

Cyclades

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

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Interaction (brown): 2

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