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Mythic Battles

GODS, Heroes and GEnerals

In Mythic Greece, a land of Gods and Heroes, we are generals fighting battles and at the start recruit our forces from Unit cards, carrying icons for type, cost and abilities - vitality, movement, close combat, ranged combat, defense and available maneuver cards; you spend 100 recruitment points for 5 to 10 neutral or own faction units. A turn comprises drawing cards from your deck with laying down Art of War cards and taking Maneuver cards in hand as well as activating a unit by discarding a Maneuver card. The unit can move and/or attack and you can then activate another unit by discarding an Art of War card. This can be repeated as often as you like, but for a 3^rd unit you must discard two Art of War cards, and for a 4^th unit already 3 such cards, and so on.

You can also discard Art of War cards or Maneuver cards to acquire Power Points, which then can be spent to activate special Talents of a unit or to add +1 to an ability marked with the corresponding symbol. Terrain effects only apply to ground units.

The result of an attack is decided by rolling dice; for each successful attack the defender suffers a Wound and puts a card from the stack of the attacked unit face-down underneath the stack. When all cards of a unit's stack are face-down, the unit is destroyed. If a general has only three units left at his command, he is defeated.

Mythic Battles offers conflict simulation at its purest; using the complete arsenal of the genre and providing a scenario booklet; it is an interesting addition to the conflict simulation genre, but again with a chance decision of conflicts after all the preceding planning.

Players: 2, 4

Age: 14+

Time: 45+

Designer: Benoît Vogt

Artist: Loïc Muzy

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: Play & Win / Iello 2012

Web: www.heidelbaer.de

Genre: Cosim, Fantasy 

Users: For experts

Special: 2 players

Version: fr

Rules: en fr

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Mythology topic

Standard Cosim mechanisms

Attacks decided by dice rolls

Compares to:

All battle simulation using dice

Other editions:

English language edition at Iello

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 4

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0