Spiel 2014 Preview: Samurai Spirit
Posted by James (admin) on 10th August 2014
I’m always interested in the games that Funforge create as their production quality is superb and I’ve liked a lot of what they’ve published, such as Quantum, Pony Express and Tokaido. This year it’s a co-operative game called Samurai Spirits.
Up to 7 players each play a Samurai hero defending a village from some raiders. The board shows a village with some barricades, farmsteads and families. On their turn, a player can choose to fight a raider, support another player, or pass. When a player chooses to fight, they draw a raider card and either confront it (placing it on the right of their player board), or defend against it (placing it on the left of their board). The total attack strength of all raiders on the right of a player’s board is marked on their ‘battle track’ and, if it equals the highest value, the player performs their character’s kiai ability. The Kiai ability not only has a special effect but it also removes their earliest fought raider which usually results in the total attack strength going down. If the total attack strength exceeds a player’s battle track, they have no choice other than to pass on their turn. Read the rest of this entry »
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