Harry Potter: Battle for Hogwarts

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Harry Potter: Battle for Hogwarts
Game data
author Forrest-Pruzan Creative , Kami Mandell ,
Andrew Wolf
graphic Joe Van Wetering
publishing company USAopoly , Kosmos Spiele u. a.
Publishing year 2016
Art cooperative card game
Teammates 2 to 4
Duration 30 to 60 minutes
Age from 11 years

Awards

Harry Potter: the battle for Hogwarts (English title: Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle ) is a cooperative Deck Building - card game of Forrest-Pruzan Creative , Kami Mandell and Andrew Wolf , which in the 2016 American publishing USAopoly appeared. In 2017 it was included in the Mensa Select Games of the Mensa International Association. From 2019 it appeared in several international translations, including a German-language edition by Kosmos Spiele .

Background and game material

Harry Potter: The Battle for Hogwarts is a cooperative card game that is based on the game mechanics of deck building as in games such as Dominion and in which the players defend the Hogwarts magic school from the novels about the fictional wizarding student Harry Potter over several rounds . The game runs over seven adventures, each with its own set of cards, in which the players take on the roles of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley , Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom to fend off the attacks of the supporters of Lord Voldemort .

The game material consists of seven locked card sets, each with its own rule modifications. There are additional game components

  • a game board as a card holder,
  • four hero panels,
  • four strength markers,
  • 8 power of evil tokens,
  • 35 attack tokens
  • 25 influence markers and
  • 9 sorting cards

The locked card sets each contain different numbers of cards of different types. These are Locations, Dark Arts Cards, Villains, Hogwarts Cards, Heroes, and Heroes Starting Cards.

Style of play

The game board is placed in the middle of the playing field and each player receives a hero board and a strength maker, which he places in front of him. At the beginning of each adventure, the cards of the adventure set are laid out according to the instructions and the additional rules in the set, the additional game material is already placed. Place the location cards, the dark arts cards, and the villains on the left side of the board and the Hogwarts cards on the right side. The hero cards, the turn overview cards and the hero starting cards are given to the respective players. They shuffle their starting set and place it face down next to their hero board, then they each draw five cards from hand that they can use on their first turn.

The different types of cards are structured differently. The villain cards contain a name and a portrait, as well as information on the individual skills and strength of the people against whom attack tokens must be used, as well as the rewards that the players receive if they defeat the character. The Hogwarts cards are assigned to different types (items, spells or allies) and contain, in addition to a characterization and a name, information on the effect that occurs when the card is played and the costs that must be spent in order to obtain the card to get.

Phases per turn
  • Activate Dark Arts
  • Activate bad guys
  • Hero phase:
    • Get resources
    • Attack villains
    • Buy Hogwarts tickets
  • Complete the turn

The players or characters play one after the other and each turn consists of four phases. In the first phase, Dark Arts cards are revealed; the number depends on the location card on display. All effects specified by the cards are carried out one after the other, after which they are put on the discard pile next to the draw pile. If the last card in the draw pile was used, the cards in the discard pile are shuffled to form the new draw pile. Then, in the second phase, the effects of the villain currently on display are carried out.

In the third phase, Hogwarts cards are played and heroic actions are carried out. In this phase the active player can play cards from his display deck in any order to get resources or to attack the current villain and to buy Hogwarts cards from the display with the help of influence markers. All played and all newly acquired cards are placed on the personal discard pile.

After the active player has carried out his actions, the fourth phase of the turn follows. First of all, it is checked whether the villains with their power of evil markers have taken over the place on display and this has to be exchanged and whether the villain has been defeated by the number of attack markers on it and will be exchanged. Then the Hogwarts cards are replenished in the display. The player puts all of his hand cards on the discard pile and draws five new cards in hand; when the draw pile is empty, the discard pile is shuffled and made into a new draw pile, whereby it also contains the newly acquired cards of the round. Then it is the next player's turn.

The game or the current adventure ends when the players have either defeated all the villains in the set and thus won the game, or when the villains manage to conquer all locations in the set and the players lose the adventure.

Expenses and reception

Harry Potter: The Battle for Hogwarts was developed as Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle by the think tank Forrest-Pruzan Creative together with Kami Mandell and Andrew Wolf and was published in 2016 by the American publisher USAopoly . From 2019 it appeared in several international translations, including a German-language edition by Kosmos Spiele . In addition, there were issues in Polish (Rebel), Hungarian (Reflexshop) and Czech (REXhry) in 2019. Further editions in Italian and Spanish are planned for 2020 Template: future / in 5 years.

In 2017 it was included in the Mensa Select Games of the Mensa International Association. The game critic Udo Bartsch rates the game in his blog "Reviews for Millions" as attractive, but also sees some weaknesses in the scenario design and little replay value once the game has been played through.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Official rules of the game for Harry Potter: The Battle for Hogwarts , Kosmos Games 2019.
  2. ↑ Versions of Mister Zero in the BoardGameGeek game database; accessed on February 11, 2020
  3. ↑ 2017 Mensa Select® Winners Announced on the Mensa website, April 24, 2017; accessed on February 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ Udo Bartsch : Harry Potter: Battle for Hogwarts , Review in "Reviews for Millions", October 19, 2019; accessed on February 15, 2020.

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