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Berserk

KNIGHTS and Villains

Berserk is a Russian game, with Evil Creatures summoned by the Chief Evil who you must find to destroy the web of souls. At the start of the game you choose troops from a pre-constructed or self-assembled deck and place those cards face-down on the board, according to the arrangement given in the rules. Card types are creatures, artifacts, areas and equipment; only creatures can move and have life points. You buy cards for gold or silver. Then you turn up your cards, so you know all your opponent's forces. To move creatures you shift them on the board. Actions of a card are attack or using the ability of a card; after an action cards are exhausted and tapped. Each creature has a basic non-magical strike. To avoid damage you can declare a Protector who fights instead of the originally attacked creature. Life points are influenced by attacks, spells or card effects; when a creature has more damage markers than life points, it dies. When a player loses all creatures, he has lost the game.

The edition Berserk: Knights and Villains can be used either as an expansion for Berserk: War of the Realms or as a stand-alone version of the game for two players only. So the box contains two pre-constructed decks of 30 cards each, the corresponding damage and effect markers, and, besides the normal rule book, a comic version of the rules for the first few turns. The decks provide cards for four out of six races from the core game.

In Knights & Villains you can again find an interesting game with interaction and synergy effects of the cards, if you take the time to familiarize yourself with the game.

Players: 2

Age: 13+

Time: 60+

Designer: Ivan Popov, Maxim Istomin

Artist: Ivan Sukhovey, Sergey Dulin, Daria Smirnova

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: Hobby World 2013

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Cards, collecting, fantasy

Users: For experts

Special: 2 players

Version: en

Rules: de en ru

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Standard topic

A game for specialists, needs immersion

The trouble is worth its while in the end

Compares to:

Berserk: War of the Realms, Collectible Card games with Fantasy topic and creature confrontation

Other editions:

Russian Edition, Hobby World, German edition "Ritter und Schurken"

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0