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Kaleva

duel of mythical legends

Before the world that we know was created the Kaleva heroes fought for dominance. Whoever prevailed would decide whether the pillar holding up the sky would be be made out of silver or out of bronze. For this conflict heroes used gods, mages, sages and deities and also the protection of the ancient looped square symbol.

You have your own deck of 27 cards of values 0 to 9, two of the characters depicted on the cards have special abilities in addition to their number value.

You shuffle the cards, draw six of them, display them and then place them face-down in any order on your side of the board. In your turn you move one piece per turn one step in any direction, silver begins, but you can only move straight into a magic shield space = opposing base line space and you cannot pass diagonally between two opposing pieces. You attack another piece by moving your piece onto an opposing piece; both players then reveal a card, the defender in the column of his piece and the attacker in the column where his piece began its move – the higher card wins, in case of a tie the attacker wins. The defeated piece and both cards go out of play, you replenish the cards from the stacks. , the cards in this column decide the outcome. If you are first to take over three slots for opposing magical shields, you win. Instead of moving a piece you can re-enter a defeated piece on a free corner space of your shield line. Your piece in an opposing shield space stays there, the owner of the lost space may swap two of his cards. If you are first to occupy three shield spaces of the opponent, you win.

Kaleva is a mix of lots of chance, some card memory and also tactic and bluff, and a well-working game by all means.

Players: 2

Age: 10+

Time: 20+

Designer: Esa Wiik

Artist: Pasi Juhola

Price: ca. 28 Euro

Publisher: Mindwarrior Games 2015

Web: www.mindwarriorgames.com

Genre: Abstract placement, card comparison

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: de dk en fi fr nl pl no se

In-game text: no

Comments:

Abstract, no real link to the theme

Good design

Short, concise rules

Good mix of bluff, tactic and luck

Compares to:

Abstract position games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0