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Hexcalibur

Battles of King Arthur

War in King Arthur’s Britain. Three randomly selected territories must be conquered, and you select one of three factions - Logres, the Faction of King Arthur, Cumbria, the faction of Queen Morgause, or Pagans, the faction of the eldest inhabitants of Britain, as there are druids, Picts and other legendary beings.

You stack the Hex tiles of your faction and keep four of six leader cards. Then both players play phases: Enchanted Item Quest - you draw an Enchanted Item card or play an Enchanted Item from your hand. In Taking Position, both players place tiles from their reserve. In Battle, you do battle; a battle comprises repetition of four rounds, until a player loses all tiles or all morale tokens. If someone has 7 VP, he wins; otherwise, the phases are repeated.

Special features and characteristics of battles come from the special faction abilities and the leaders you select for a game. Leaders in Logres Faction are Arthur Pendragon, Merlin, Princess Guinevere, King Leodegrance, Sir Ector and Sir Kay. The Cumbria Faction can be played with a selection from Queen Morgause of Orkney, King Loth of Lothian, König Uriens, Sir Agravaine, Gaheris or Morganore. Leaders in the Pagans Faction are Addanc, Bercilak, Esclados, Nine Witches of Caer Loyw, King Rience and Viviana. They all introduce special abilities into play in different phases and, together with Minor und Unique Enchanted Items, provide lots of variation in individual games.

Nothing spectacularly new as regards to mechanisms, but a nice and well-working tapestry of all characters known from the Arthurian legends woven into a thrilling conflict for Britain.

Players: 2

Age: 10+

Time: 45+

Designer: Enrique Duenas

Art: Francisco Rico

Price: ca. 20 Euro

Publisher: SD Games / GenX Studio 2017

Web: www.playsdgames.com

Genre: History, conflict simulation

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: multi

Rules: en es

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Topic nicely implemented

Standard conflict mechanisms

Uses all characters of the Arthurian Legend

Compares to:

Historic conflict simulations

Other editions:

Currently none

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