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Arena: For the Gods!

Battling for the favor of gods

Mythological heroes fight for favor with the gods. The arena is prepared, depending on the scenario, with columns and arena tiles - for winning or losing life points - and you select a hero, who holds 20 life points, which you place behind your screen.

In the Equipment phase of the game you select weapon, mount, armor and spell from randomly prepared displays by making bids with life points; players select the respective piece of equipment in descending order of their bids.

In the Combat phase, you place your hero on an available empty hex at the edge of the scenario arena. In turn, you implement three steps in your turn - prepare turn, roll dice and resolve actions: You take seven dice minus exhaustion tokens on your screen and roll the thus available dice, you can re-roll any number once. The results are used to move or protect your hero, you can let him do battle or use dice to activate equipment cards; actions can be resolved in any number and combination provided dice are available. For two identical dice you can - depending on the symbol - reduce the life points of an adjacent or any hero by one, can move your hero one step or shove an adjacent hero and move him one step away from your own; if he cannot do that, he loses a life point; if another hero blocks the shoved one, both lose a life point. You need not use all dice. If someone is out of life points, the game ends and you win with most life points.

If you look for pure strategy and tactic, you must take your battles elsewhere - if you don’t mind luck of the dice and combine results cleverly, you will have fun in the various scenarios.

Players: 2-6

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Maxime Rambourg

Art: Paul Mafayon

Price: ca. 22 Euro

Publisher: Iello 2017

Web: www.hutter-trade.com

Genre: Dice, combat, fantasy

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: cn de en fr jp pt

In-game text: no

Comments:

High quality components

Fantastic graphics

Varied due to scenarios

Dice-dominated

Compares to:

Dice-driven combat games featuring heroes

Other editions:

Game Harbour (cn), Hobby Japan (jp), Iello (en, fr), Ludofy (pt)

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0