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Guardians’ Chronicles

Episode 1

Episode 1 of Guardians# Chronicles reports on the conflict between evil Doktor Skarov and the members of the famous team of heroes, the Liberty Patrol All players decide on a scenario and get their first surprise with the extremely scarce and concise information in Comic Book style. The rules are don in the same way, this needs same immersion for comprehension. Each scenario has the goal to achieve a good newspaper report for one’s own faction. One player embodies Skarov and his minions, the other players choose one hero each with his own abilities and weaknesses, heroes develop in the course of the game. A round in the game comprises Strategy, Activation and End of Round; characters fight, move, use an ability, etc., confrontations are dealt with using standard mechanisms with value comparisons. A hero has three actions, villains a number of actions according to their ID card, modified by event cards.

When heroes make short shrift of a plan of Skarov, they will end up on the title page of the Guardians‘ Chronicles, but Doktor Skarov is mentioned, too, when he gets a goal through, or defeats a hero, of course always according to scenario goals as a basis for a positive mentioning. At the end of the game the composition of the title page determines who has been given more room and therefore wins.

If you are used to the standard adventure games with miniatures you will face some radical diversions, but will find that they are fun and the creation of the title page to your own advantage is a completely new aspect. Definitely worth playing and one can look forward to further editions.

Players: 2-5

Age: 14+

Time: 120+

Designer: Frédérick Condette

Artist: Frédérick Condette, Igor Polouchine

Price: ca. 65 Euro

Publisher: iello 2014

Web: www.iellogames.com

Genre: Fantasy, adventure

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Coproduction with The Red Joker

Extremely unusual aim of the game

Layout of scenario-information and rules needs getting used to

Compares to:

All adventure games with a fantasy topic

Other editions:

French edition, iello

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0