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Little Battle

draft your adventurers

Adventurers salvage treasure buried at the island’s beach. You have a Longship and five adventurer cards out of 30 cards featuring ten blue parrots of values 1-10, nine red rhinos of values 1-9 and eight yellow leopards of values 1-8, plus one Chief in each color, value 0.

At the start, in Part I Adventurer Recruitment, you draft your cards until you have five cards in hand again. In Part II, Gold Rush, you place - for Phase 1, Raid the Chests - one face-down card next to one of the two treasure chest stacks comprising a total of 18 treasure chest cards in red, yellow and blue. Then, in Phase 2, Divide up the Loot, cards next to the stacks are revealed; parrots open blue chests, leopards yellow chests and rhinos open red chests. If a card is alone at a chest, the owner takes the chest. In case of several cards at a stack, the adventurers in chest color fight, the highest value wins. The other players with cards at the stack can continue with the next chest in the stack. When all have played their five cards, you begin again with five cards and Phase 1 of Part II. When all chests are taken, you win with most coins on your treasure chests. If you play with the chiefs, their special abilities apply: The parrot chief takes a blue chest and the one underneath; Leopard chief can take a chest in the color of the previously successful adventurer and Rhino chief chases off all cards of value 3 or higher. Two or three chiefs at one stack are set aside without effects.

Pretty and cute, the animal drawings are enchanting; the mechanism, however, seem a bit challenging and tactical for the age group, from drafting cards to using the chiefs.

Players: 3-5

Age: 5+

Time: 15+

Designer: Dorian & Leandro Berthelot

Artist: Ariel Icandri

Price: ca. 15 Euro

Publisher: Loki / Hutter 2019

Web: www.loki-kids.com

Genre: Drafting, collecting

Users: For children

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl

In-game text: no

Comments:

Attractive design

Handy little box

Mechanisms rather challenging

Compares to:

Draft and collecting games with card comparison

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0