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Bastion

Defend the castle together

In the universe of Berserk, you cooperatively defend, as a Mage, the Castle that is attacked by beasts, warriors, monsters, giants, other Mages and mighty and powerful dragons. You move in six different realms or landscapes – Prairie, Fire, Mountains, Forests, Swamps and Darkness – and travel to districts, receive energy from magical sources, collect mana and learn and acquire new spells.

To defeat an attacker always needs special Mana, which you have to collect; defeated opponents give you new abilities, let you construct powerful artifacts and allow you to stage magical rituals. Depending on the scenario that you choose there are different enemies with different abilities in play, the scenarios offer everything from 32 enemies with a total strength of 160 up to 42 enemies with a total strength of 220.

A player’s turn comprises Enemy Attacks and Defender Actions. An enemy attack can come in two ways – when there are cards in the Enemy deck, the top one is revealed and placed at a wall segment. If the deck is empty, you place an enemy from the Camp at the Wall. Then you can do any action in any order from the following options: Move once to citadel or district, collect mana once from one of the sources, defeat an enemy, cast any number of spells or use any number of artifacts. Players win if they defeat all enemies in Camp and the deck of Enemy cards is empty. The Enemies win if the break into the castle from Camp.

Bastion is an elegant cooperative optimization game with a defense topic, needing different approaches in the various stages of the game and offering a very good selection of scenarios.

Players:1-4

Age: 10+

Time: 120+

Designer: Evgeny Nikitin, Nikolay Pegasov

Artist: Anton Kvasovarov, Sergey Dulin, Aleksander Shaldin

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Hobby World 2015

Web: www.hobbyworld.ru

Genre: Fantasy, adventure, cooperative

Users: With friends

Special: 1 player

Version: en

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Good components

Comprehensive, well-written rules

Only small chance element

Box and card titles in Russian, rules in English

Compares to:

Cooperative fantasy defense games

Other editions:

Russian edition, Hobby World

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

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