Siege of Valeria: puzzley castle defense Small (although…
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Siege of Valeria: puzzley castle defense
Small (although it still takes considerable table space) solo castle defense game. You try to survive against monster waves and eliminate all their siege engines, in the process not letting wall get too damaged, or siege engine getting too close.
Essentially Siege of Valeria is a dice placement/manipulation puzzle. You have dice pool of two colors to use each turn (red and more rare blue dice), there are 5 x 5 monster cards (with siege engines starting in upper row) threatening castle. Each monster require certain number or higher to defeat (most of them require red die, but some need blue die, too).
The twist is that as soon as you defeat monster, you get to use immediately (or later, if you prefer to) its special ability. And there is a lot of fun and powerful stuff which they can provide. Rolling extra die, killing its neighbour, changing numbers, and so on. As a result, you can and should create strong chain combos, that wipe out a lot of monsters each turn. They are fun to puzzle out, and make you feel really powerful.
There is also other stuff to consider. Like event cards which affect your turn (though not everyone will like how they make game more tough and more random. Fortunately you can play without them, too), champion cards (which you get for destroying siege engines and which provide you useful abilities), monsters advancing and replacing their numbers... Still game remains not complex at all, and quick to play. Good little fast-playing puzzle. Just beware that it has a lot of luck: with poor rolls you will not be able to defeat many monsters, which means you will not gain their abilities to mitigate random, and so snowball goes.
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Small (although it still takes considerable table space) solo castle defense game. You try to survive against monster waves and eliminate all their siege engines, in the process not letting wall get too damaged, or siege engine getting too close.
Essentially Siege of Valeria is a dice placement/manipulation puzzle. You have dice pool of two colors to use each turn (red and more rare blue dice), there are 5 x 5 monster cards (with siege engines starting in upper row) threatening castle. Each monster require certain number or higher to defeat (most of them require red die, but some need blue die, too).
The twist is that as soon as you defeat monster, you get to use immediately (or later, if you prefer to) its special ability. And there is a lot of fun and powerful stuff which they can provide. Rolling extra die, killing its neighbour, changing numbers, and so on. As a result, you can and should create strong chain combos, that wipe out a lot of monsters each turn. They are fun to puzzle out, and make you feel really powerful.
There is also other stuff to consider. Like event cards which affect your turn (though not everyone will like how they make game more tough and more random. Fortunately you can play without them, too), champion cards (which you get for destroying siege engines and which provide you useful abilities), monsters advancing and replacing their numbers... Still game remains not complex at all, and quick to play. Good little fast-playing puzzle. Just beware that it has a lot of luck: with poor rolls you will not be able to defeat many monsters, which means you will not gain their abilities to mitigate random, and so snowball goes.
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