Titan (game)
Titan is a strategic board game for two to six people, published in 1982 by Avalon Hill . Production was discontinued at the beginning of the 1990s, so that the game can only be purchased as an antiquarian game - although this is extremely rare and then at fabulous prices. In the meantime, however, the Canadian game publisher Valley Games has published a new edition of the game (as of December 2008).
Each player commands an army of fantasy creatures ( trolls , ogres , centaurs, cyclops, dragons ...), each led by a titan. The aim of the game is to beat the titans of the other players. In this respect, the titan is similar to the king in chess : If he is lost, the other pieces of the player in question are also eliminated.
The game board is divided into 96 fields that represent different landscapes:
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Brush | |
| Desert | ||
| Hills | ||
| Jungle | ||
| Marsh | ||
| Mountains | ||
| Plains | ||
| Swamp | ||
| Tower | ||
| Tundra | ||
| Woods |
Each creature can recruit other creatures of its own kind in certain landscapes. Multiple creatures of the same type can also recruit higher value creatures.
The armies of the players are divided into legions, which can consist of a maximum of seven creatures. Each creature is shown on a cardboard plate (counter) with its values. So a legion consists of a stack of counters. The legion (counter stack) is covered by a cover slip. When recruiting, certain creatures must be shown in the Legion in order to get higher-quality creatures. Then they are covered again. So there is a memory effect. If you have a good memory, you keep in mind which legion is how strong. The Titan is also in a Legion deck. If this is defeated, the player is eliminated, regardless of how many legions he had. Every player therefore strives to rally as strong figures as possible around his titans.
When a legion meets another player's legion, a fight ensues. These battles are fought on small, tactical maps ("battlelands"), which offer different advantages for each landscape for matching / inappropriate figures. For defeated opposing pieces there are points that make your own Titan stronger and occasionally other strong pieces available. This creates an incentive to take risks and initiate fights yourself.
A legion can be split before movement begins. This means that when a legion is "full", you have to decide whether you want to use it for combat or share it for further recruitment. An essential element of the game is the skillful movement of the legions in order to build and develop them, as well as the balance between building and fighting.