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Samurai Spirit

Raiders versus samurai

Players are samurai and stand in a cooperative game between the village and blood lusty raiders .

You can play at Easy, Normal, Hard or Heroic level, for a first game Normal is recommended and the game is set up accordingly.

In three rounds players draw bandit cards and then choose if they want to fight the bandits, defend the village or let their particular villains escape in order to assist other samurai.

In your turn you must - if necessary - apply penalty for Raider cards and then implement an action - Fight, Support or Pass. Fight means either confrontation with value comparison or defending against a bandit with hat, doll or farm symbol. To support another player you hand on your marker and move a Raider to the Intruder stack. There are detailed rules for using the special ability and special talent of a samurai. Wounds from combat or received as penalty due to not protecting farmers against bandits with hat are marked, with three wounds a samurai turns beast and dies with four wounds. At the end of the round there are penalties for not defending against hat, farm or doll symbols on raiders in the form of wounds, destroyed farms and destroyed families. Then you score bonuses for saved families. Finally, intruders are dealt with, you must destroy one barricade for each flame symbol on an intruder card.

This game is easy card comparison based on complex details; basically you do not try to win confrontations, but minimize damage by optimum use of your own abilities and talents to win at the end with all players, having one farm and one family left undestroyed in your joint village.

Players: 1-7

Age: 9+

Time: 45+

Designer: Antoine Bauza

Artist: Victor Pérez Corbella

Price: ca. 21 Euro

Publisher: Funforge 2014

Web: www.funforge.fr

Genre: Cards, cooperation, combat

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Special: Many players

Version: en  

Rules: de en fr hu pl ru

In-game text: no

Comments:

Easy basic rules, lots of details

Cooperation is essential

Variable powers need optimum use

Damage must be minimized

Compares to:

Cooperative games using special abilities

Other editions:

Fun Forge (de, fr), Gem Klub (hu), Hobby World (ru), Rebel.pl (pl),

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0