Review Cardboard Mutilation: Titan: The Arena

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Tags: Avalon Hill; Cardboard Mutilation; Colossal Arena; Fantasy Flight Games; Titan: The Arena

Our resident cardboard hero Ulminati returns to share more secrets of chits, dice and very serious people poring over abstract rulebooks. Todays Cardboard Mutilation introduce us to mythical beasts battling each other to the death with Titan: The Arena.

Obviously, each players basic objective is to keep his bets alive and killing off the creatures that other players have bet on. In the early rounds this mainly means playing high strength cards on your own monsters. But as the game progresses, gameplay shifts towards trying to assassinate other players creatures with low strength cards and trying to control the flow of cards so that the game ends on your turn, allowing to to decide who lives and who dies. Creature abilities can play heavily into this -- If you control the Ettin for instance, you may play another card immediately after you play a card on it. this allows you to both save the ettin and place a low strength card on another players creature. A final complication is that you MUST place a bet or a card on your turn. It is entirely possible to paint yourself into a corner where the only cards you have available are cards you really don't want to play.

Read the full article of Cardboard Mutilation: Titan: The Arena and keep an eye out for our extra spicey edition next week!

 

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Titan: The arena should in no way be confused with Titan - another game by the same publisher. I may get around to taking a look at that monster some other day.

 

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Lots of backstabbing and such going on in this one, eh? Those are the ingredients for a fun family and friends evening. Might check it out.