Facts
Project Title: Strategy Board Game (working title)
Project Status: Completed
My Responsibilities: Everything
- Game Design
- Unit Balancing
- Documentation
Project Description
While on vacation in Sweden, I had the idea of combining the good/fun aspects of the games “The Settlers of Cartan” and “Risk” into one tabletop strategy game.
As a key aspect of the game, there are four races: Orcs, Humans, Elves and Dwarfs. Each race has the ability to acquire different resources and each race needs different resources to expand and produce units. The resources are also limited, thus fighting over resource spots is granted. The classes also differ in their strengths and weaknesses: Orcs are superior in attacking, but weak in defense. Dwarfs are like a rock - small but indestructible. Elves are agile Archers and almost immune to magic. Humans have the most powerful offensive magic.
As always, tweaking the units was the most interesting but also the hardest part. After “finishing” the game documentation, i started thinking about improvements and came up with a few. I will probably update the rules during my next vacation (or make a whole new game out of it). You can download the German version of the Rules below.
