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Rattle Battle

Grab the Loot

Grab the Loot – you are captain of your own pirate ship! Garner favor from the Pirate King! Each game comprises a series of quests, with different options to collect victory points. Each player begins with a ship in three parts, bow, stern and mast and upgrades it during the game.

For each player there are varying numbers of ship dice, in relation to the number of players, and maybe a captain’s die. In some adventures non-player ship dice are added. In an adventure you always play the phases of Quest and Port Visit. In the quest there are many phases: Briefing; Ship Drop - the Baron (the current starting player) drops player and non-player dice into the see, positions of dice and their results decide, among other things, the outcome of battles; Actions of non-player ships from exploding to alliances; Player Actions – Movement or Firing, Battle with ship comparison, Coin Rewards for sunk NP shops, Loot for all; Sailor Activation; Ship Repairs using loot markers and Stow Loot. In the Port Visit stage you acquire repair parts, upgrades, score victory points and hire sailors. When all quests have been mastered, the game ends and you add up victory points from cards, coins, sailors and other.

The many upgrades and additional parts like islands for the box sea in the various scenarios demand some tactic and raise the fun, make dice positions even more important. All in all this is a cute and witty pirate game with lots of flair and marvelous components, all for families with a bit of gaming experience; scenarios themselves provide lots of variation and Battle and Port Visits are challenging for experienced players, too.

Players: 2-5

Age: 8+

Time: 90+

Designer: Ignacy Trzewiczek

Artist: Rafał Szyma and Team

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: Portal Games 2015

Web: www.portalgames.pl

Genre: Pirates, adventure

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en es it pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Marvelous components

Lots of variation in the scenarios

Some gaming experience is of an advantage

Compares to:

First game of this kind, in general adventure and pirate games

Other editions:

Cranio Creations, Edge Entertainment

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0