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Wettlauf nach El Dorado

Heroes & Hexes the 1^st expansion

Expedition to El Dorado. You plan the route, hire explorers and buy equipment. The starting deck of your expedition comprises one sailor, three explorers and four traveler, and you take four cards in hand. In your turn, you play cards to move the expedition - symbols of hexes and cards correlate and minimum card strength equals hex strength - and/or buy a card from the market; then you discard used cards and draw new ones. Cards that were used as items or for movement to the base camp are taken out of play. If you reach El Dorado, you win at the end of the round if you are alone there, or else with the most collected blockades.

Helden & Dämonen / Heroes & Hexes is the 1^st expansion for use with the basic game, introducing lots of new components and features, albeit only for use with the Caves variant of the core game. There are twelve new expedition cards for now 16 stacks and also new cave tiles for shuffling into those of the core game. Animal companions as 9^th basis card are used normally or discarded after use of the special ability. If you enter the new board part Game Tavern, you receive a hero. Demon cards are fillers, you can use them on rubble hexes or as ½ coin. Three new landscape boards feature new landscape types - demons and tunnels, new blockades work like a demon hex. If you enter a demon hex, you must reveal a curse and either ban it immediately or later by meeting a condition or demand.

Heroes & Hexes is a well-working expansion, that introduces a bit of mysticism and fantasy flair to the game and also changes the way you build your deck after receiving a hero; the curses introduce a bit more chance to game.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Reiner Knizia

Artist: Franz Vohwinkel

Price: ca. 27 Euro

Publisher: Ravensburger 2018

Web: www.ravensburger.de

Genre: Movement, deck building

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Needs Cave variant of the core game to play

Lots of new features

Topic turns towards fantasy/mystics

Compares to:

Wettlauf nach El Dorado

Other editions:

Currently none

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