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Merlin: Knights of the Round Table

Game ID: GID0207641
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2019
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Enlist the help of the most famous knights of the realm on your quest to become King Arthur's successor. Each of the twelve knights in Merlin: Knights of the Round Table has their own unique ability that must be used wisely to gain an advantage over your rivals.

At the start of the game, each player gets two knights that will assist them. The knights can either be given out randomly or drafted (for more strategic control).

—description from the publisher

Description

Enlist the help of the most famous knights of the realm on your quest to become King Arthur's successor. Each of the twelve knights in Merlin: Knights of the Round Table has their own unique ability that must be used wisely to gain an advantage over your rivals.

At the start of the game, each player gets two knights that will assist them. The knights can either be given out randomly or drafted (for more strategic control).

—description from the publisher

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positive
Pros
  • It's a melting from euro style Stefan Feld game and American style fighting game that they will bring together into a big miniatures game.
  • The miniature game will have euro mechanics from Stefan Feld.
  • It has typical Stefan Feld mechanisms with different actions.
  • It's a fantasy themed game.
  • It's a well-done prototype.
Cons
  • It's a expansion so you do have to expand with it.
Thematic elements
  • Knights of the Round Table
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Control — You have to go from the center of the board to spread out, it's a exploration game.
  • Army building — Everybody has 40 of them nowadays now and we have six to ten or twelve different ones to us coming up.
  • Deck Building — There are different actions and with these actions you can go to the other board.
  • Dice combat — There are many dice in the game to fight against monsters.
  • Dice mitigation — There will also be a lot of mitigation being a Stefan Feld game because you don't rely much on luck.
  • Leveling up — This is typical war gaming, you start leveling up, leveling up your thing where you choose to upgrade this or you get your knights on the table on the board.
  • Player Progression — You can upgrade your powerful fighting.
  • Worker Placement — It's a worker placement where you have to choose which path to go.
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  • It's a melting from euro style Stefan Feld game and American style fighting game.
  • We will bring it together to a big miniatures game.
  • It's a fantasy themed game on the title and we think we're good in a fantasy style with with your with the miniatures your army you will be Knights or something like that.
  • This is a mechanism as I said it's a mechanism.
  • Yeah, you have to kind of been a bit of a worker placement or you have to choose which path to go.
  • Of course there are many dice in the game, you have you have to fight against the monsters with dice.
  • You guys are also gonna have a lot of mitigation being a Stefan Feld game because you don't rely much on luck.
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