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| Players | 2 players |
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| Setup time | 10 minutes |
| Playing time | 30–60 minutes |
| Random chance | Medium |
| Skills required | Dice Rolling, Hand Management |
BattleLore is a strategy board wargame for two players, created by Richard Borg and published by Days of Wonder. The game is based on the same mechanics as Battle Cry, Memoir '44 and Commands & Colors: Ancients, but has a fantasy theme.
BattleLore debuted at the 2006 Spiel game fair in Essen, Germany and was released worldwide on November 30.
Typical setup for a game is 10-15 minutes, beginning players can expect a 45-60 minute game, but experienced players can usually finish a game in about 30-45 minutes. Each player has a set of quick reference cards to help them keep rules in mind. Experienced players will rarely have to pull out the rulebook for clarification.
Each adventure in Battlelore is pre-constructed, leaving the work of creating armies to the scenario author. Although with the Call to Arms Expansion (released May 2007) the players have (limited) control on deploying units to any given scenario. The Battlelore website offers an online scenario builder that helps fans create their own adventures.
In September 2008 Fantasy Flight Games and Days of Wonder announced that the game would be moving to Fantasy Flight Games, along with all remaining stock.
Expansions and Promotional Figures
Days of Wonder first planned to release a large expansion every six months and 1 or 2 small expansions every month.[1] The first two additions were the Hill Giant, that was available to those who pre-ordered the game and at gaming events and conventions, and the Earth Elemental that was available for a limited time, for free, for anyone who purchased the game.
The first expansion - Battlelore Epic - contains rules for large-scale battles and for multiplayer games of up to 6 people. Epic Battlelore is played on two boards adjacent to each other forming one double-sided battlefield. It was first published as a set of rules available for download but in June 2007 it was published and sold with an extra board and tokens. The second expansion,Call to Arms, contains rules to draft customized armies.
Four additional expansions were released in 2007; Dwarven Battalion, Scottish Wars, Goblin Skirmishers, Goblin Marauders and The Hundred Years' War - Crossbows & Polearms. Labelled as specialist-packs, they included new miniatures with unique rules and scenarios. Days of Wonder had planned for the "Heroes of Battlelore" expansion, to be released in 2008[2] but the expansion was delayed when the game was sold to Fantasy Flight Games. Fantasy Flight Games released the long-delayed Heroes expansion in the autumn of 2009.[3]
References
External links
- BattleLore official site
- BattleLore at BoardGameGeek
- BattleLoreMaster.com
- World Of Battlelore german site
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