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Fellowship vs. Mordor

Players are entering the fight against Sauron und send out groups of fellowship cards to defeat the enemy.

There are 21 enemy cards, three of them are laid out openly and then you deal three of the total of 31 Fellow cards to each player. Then you shuffle 12 Mordor cards into the remaining Fellow cards and thus form the Ring card stack.

In turn you can then either place a Fellow card from your hand in one of your own groups and then lead this group into a confrontation or you can draw a card from the Ring card deck. You can start any number of groups and can add any number of cards to a group, but you cannot relocate cards between groups. When symbols on Fellow cards in a group correspond to symbols on enemy cards on display, you can lead the group into a confrontation and use special abilities of Fellows in the group.  Defeated enemy cards are discarded and the display of enemy cards is augmented to three. If you have fewer than five cards in hand you may dray a card: A Fellow card you can keep, a Mordor card is laid out from left to right underneath the enemy cards; the first two are ignored, the third such card is implemented and then removed together with the enemy card above it. Mordor cards cause loss of cards from your hand or from a group laid out or loss of a defeated enemy card.

When all enemy cards have been dealt with, you win with most victory points from defeated enemy cards and Fellow cards you received.

The game offers a simple set collecting mechanism; clever use of special abilities can save you cards. The topic and its flair have been nicely implemented.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Andreas Zimmermann

Art: Suzanne Helmigh, Fine Tuning

Price: ca. 8 Euro

Publisher: Kosmos 2012

Web: www.kosmos.de

Genre: Set collecting game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Topic nicely implemented

Simple basic rule

Clever use special card abilities is essential

Compares to:

Set collection games with modification of cards by other cards

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 2

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0