Thursday, June 15, 2006

Fury of Dracula!

One of the few new board games we've bought this summer - great production (lots of well-done bits, good looking) and original gameplay, definitely not exactly like anything else we have.

In Fury of Dracula, one player is Dracula, and the other(s) play the four Hunters (Van Helsing, Jonathan and Mina Harker, etc).
The board is a very legible and beautiful map of Europe in the 1800s. (See Revolution below for a much worse European map).

The object of the game is for the 4 hunters to travel around Europe and eventually find and kill Dracula (and for Dracula to evade them as long as possible and to throw his minion vampires in their path to fight while he darts away).
But Dracula is not just standing out there on the map like the other four, he's moving secretly by playing cards in front of him (in his path).

We've played this most often with Dave as Dracula and me as the others - Dave has won in those cases. Dave's nephew played with me once, taking over 2 of the hunters, and while he wasn't able to stay for the whole game, the hunters did kill dracula at the end.

Haven't played in the last few months...

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