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Mächtige Monster

Orcs or insects versus guardians

Monsters want to rob King‘ Edgar of his gold in the castle. Each player embodies a type of monster – Trolls, Undead, Aquatic Animals, Demons, Insects or Dragons – and holds five monster cards. 36 Guards in three different strengths and the King tiles are shuffled. The game board with the number of segments in accordance with the number of players and likewise the number of King tiles is set out. You take three monster cards in hand and also eight gold.

At the start of a round you place a monster at a free position at the board or oust a weaker monster, even your own, albeit by paying gold to the guardian, in relation to the guardian’s level, and also to the owner of the ousted monster. When each player has placed two cards – all slots at the board are occupied - the first guardian is revealed; if he is weaker than the sum of monsters next to him, he loses and all players involved in the fight get gold; then the next guardian is fought.

When monsters have lost a fight, the Fight phase ends and defeated monsters are healed – you pay with gold for healing – and set aside; you replenish your monster hand and guards are also replenished on the board and a King tile is set aside. With the last King tile the game ends and you win with most gold. In the version „Des Königs neue Regeln“ small rule changes are introduced with King tiles in each round; in the version „Wächterkette“ you sort the guards on the board by levels.

This is an attractive fantasy adventure, seen from the other side, with monsters winning. The real fun in the game is to outmaneuver the other monsters, especially in case of guards with uneven gold quantities.

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Time: 35+

Designer: Desnet Amane

Artist: Markus Erdt

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: Queen Games 2016

Web: www.queen-games.de

Genre: place and compare cards

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de en hu pl

In-game text: no

Comments:

For once, winning as a monster!

Rather simple rules, well formulated

Many examples

Of equal interest to families and experienced players

Compares to:

Collecting games using card comparison

Other editions:

Queen (en), Piatnik (hu), Rebel.pl (pl)

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0