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Forest Fire

Cooperate to save the villages

As a Fireman, you are fighting forest fires and must save villages! You draw one Fireman card and have a deck of action cards. The chosen scenario is set up, the event deck is prepared, and the remaining terrain parts are in the bag. Each player puts his fire man into a village. The terrain tiles are drawn and placed, depending on the type of terrain a tile can be entered by firemen, fire can burn on a tile or the terrain is a permanent water source, for instance. You have seven actions in your turn; options are movement onto a terrain tile or move to an empty space to draw and place a terrain tail; place hose, fill tank, put out fire, hand over component or do a special action. Possible special actions are Prayer for Rain, Barrier against fire which blocks neither hose nor firemen; Overtime for two more actions; Well; Helicopter for moving to any tile and modification of hose to achieve putting out fire in a wider range. After each player turn you draw and resolve two event cards - Fire, a fire springs up; Wind from a given direction, fire spreads one tile further; Storm from a given direction, fire spreads two tiles, or Rainy Season to end the game.

When the card Rainy Season is revealed and no village is burning, all win together. If a village burns and the card „Put out village“ has been used or if there are no more fire cubes to place when you would have to do so, all have lost. Six scenarios offer different levels of difficulty.

Cooperation and planning must be used cleverly to fight off the fire until the Rainy Season card appears. Six scenarios and the varying modular board offer high replay value.

Players: 1-5

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Jan Hanousek, Tomáš Mrkvička

Artist: Jana Krausová, Karel Kulis

Price: ca. 30 Euro

Publisher: Czech Board Games 2016

Web: www.tmgames.eu

Genre: Cooperation, use of cards, tile placement

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Version: multi

Rules: cz en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Utilitarian, minimalistic components

High replay value due to scenarios and always different development of the board

Rules also very tightly formulated

Compares to:

Cooperative placement games with actions, for the topic also Feurio, Edition Erlkönig

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0