BATTLELORE - 2nd ed. (USATO)

NB. tutte le carte sono gia imbustate / all the cards are already enveloped

BattleLore Second Edition is a two-player board game of combat between small groups of warriors set in the fantasy world of Terrinoth. Players take command of noble Daqan Lords or fierce demon-worshipping Uthuk Y'llan, and use the power of sorcery to turn circumstances in their favour. Create new maps and victory conditions for each game by choosing different scenario cards, then assemble an army and defeat your opponent on the battlefield. Contains ninety-two finely sculpted models, more than one hundred and fifty cards and one custom die.
BattleLore Second Edition will prove to be addictive even for the most experienced fans of miniatures games!
BattleLore is a two-player squad-level tactical battle system set in the vivid fantasy world of Runebound.

Each game is always different from the previous one, thanks to the scenario generation mechanisms: the latter are not predetermined, but are created from game to game by the players themselves through the use of scenario cards, which provide for different initial layouts of the terrain elements on the map, specific victory conditions, additional rules, and so on.
Indeed, in the first phase of a game, players must secretly choose a scenario card from their deck (different for each faction) and then reveal it at the same time; therefore, they must prepare the battle terrain map – divided into hexes – by applying mobile terrain elements such as rivers, fords, hills, forests, buildings, etc.
Even the deployment of troops has a strong component of bluffing: in fact, each player chooses and places the deployment cards of his own faction (showing the available units) face down on the deployment hexes. The players then reveal their cards. But be careful: some of them can actually turn out to be traps, that is, they don't actually correspond to any unit! Naturally, each army will have to be built according to an overall scoring system, based on the value of each unit. The game turn is divided into two phases: command and maintenance.
The first phase allows the player whose turn it is to play one of his command cards, i.e. the cards showing the number of units and their position (left, center or right) to which the player can assign orders (e.g.: "Assign the two-unit orders on the left sector"). Once this is done, the player issues orders to units based on the command card played. These orders are, generally, to move and/or attack.
Combat can be at a distance or in melee, and is based on the roll of the appropriate dice shown on the attacking unit's card. The results can be damage to the unit (which loses figures), the obligation to retreat a certain number of hexes, the activation of special abilities or the gain of knowledge points, necessary to use the relative cards with unpredictable effects. Even the choice of dice results has a tactical component: in fact, each result of the dice can be used in different ways, which however are mutually exclusive... Once the effects of the attack have been applied, the target unit has the possibility to counter-attack.
Once the attack phase is over, in the maintenance phase it is checked whether the player has met the conditions for obtaining victory points shown on his own scenario card; then he completes his hand of cards; finally, he can use the lore points to play lore cards, which have the most diverse effects, from those similar to magic to advanced tactics. The player who reaches 16 victory points first or who annihilates the opposing side wins.

BattleLore effectively mixes strategy, tactics, luck and bluff, creating an ever new and exciting gaming experience!