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Doctor Who The Card Game

Save the universe!

As Doctor Who you impersonate the doctor and his companions and defend locations across space and time against a number of enemies and you also play the powers of evil at the same time, who are attacking locations of other players.

The cards in the game are defender, locations, enemies or support cards. You start with Dalek and Tardis counters of one color and draw a location; cards are stacked according to parameters and assigned to players. In your turn you have actions to play cards – you can play a location card or defender cards to your own location, play enemy cards to other location, both face-down, play a support card or a card into reserve or you buy cards for time points or discard one or two cards to obtain time points. The number of actions you can do depends on the number of cards that you can play; you have cards in reserve, but must hand on three cards to your neighbor at the end of your turn and draw two cards. Conflicts at locations between defender and enemy cards are resolved instantly, the sum or strength is compared.

When someone has all Dalek or Tardis counters in play or when the end-of-game card appears the game ends and you score locations that you protected and locations that you conquered and win with the highest total of points.

Basically intended rather for families or beginners, the game offers lots of atmosphere and with the mechanisms of handing on cards quite some strategy and tactic so that it also is of interest to expert players. A successful balance that is intensified by the face-down playing of cards to locations and the double roles of attacker and defender.

Players: 3-4

Age: 13+

Time: 60+

Designer: Martin Wallace

Artist: Team

Price: ca. 23 Euro

Publisher: Cubicle 7 / Treefrog 2012

Web: www.treefroggames.com

Genre: Card game

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Based on the TV series

Not only for fans of the series

Good for families as well as expert players

Lots of atmosphere due to the illustrations

Compares to:

Card games with card power comparison

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

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Memory (orange): 0

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Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

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