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In the Hall of Mountain King- Deluxe

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Clans of trolls mount a doomed final stand for the heart of the mountain. learn more +
12+
2-5
75 min.
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Rules Difficulty

Simple
Moderate
Complex

Concentration

Casual
Focused
Intense

Atmosphere

Relaxed
Exciting
Engaging

Publishing

Language:
FR
EN
Author:
Jay Cormier
Graeme Jahns
Illustrator:
Kwanchai Moriya
Josh Cappel
In the Hall of Mountain King- Deluxe

Universe

Play as trolls rebuilding your abandoned kingdom under the mountain in In the Hall of the Mountain King. With muscle and magic, you'll unearth riches, dig out collapsed tunnels, and carve out great halls as you raise the toppled statues of your ancestors to their places of honor at the heart of the mountain. Gameplay is driven by the innovative cascading production system. Timing and tactics are key as you work to restore your home to its former glory and win the crown!

Working on the same game board with the other players (but beginning at your own entrance), you'll dig a competing network of tunnels by spending increasingly valuable materials to lay polyomino tiles onto the map. You want to extend your tunnels to connect with buried gold and materials, with workshop locations that can transform resources, and especially with toppled statues. Statues are key to scoring, and you'll spend carts to move them through the tunnels to prime scoring locations near the heart of the mountain.

A major aspect of the game is the cascading production. You begin with a line of four trolls, and every troll shows the combination of resources — gold, stone, iron, marble, carts, runes, and hammers — that it produces. When a new troll is hired, place it above two other trolls, forming a "pyramid". The new troll activates, gaining its resources, and any trolls beneath it ALSO activate, gaining any resources that they have room to carry. In this way as you hire more trolls, you gain bigger and bigger windfalls of resources as the end of the game nears. The timing of your hiring turns versus your building turns is important as you try to maximize your cascades while making sure you get the trolls you want from the shared market and also stay competitive on the map.

The game ends shortly after the last player hires their sixth troll, then the player with the most honor (earned for digging tunnels of increasing quality, for excavating great halls, and for moving statues closer to the heart of the mountain, especially onto matching pedestals) is crowned the Mountain King and wins!

Gameplay

Fall of the Mountain King is a standalone prequel to In the Hall of the Mountain King, set during the catastrophic war that drove the trolls from their mountain kingdom generations ago. Build your ancestry to drive your actions in the caverns, win the loyalty of the clan Champions, and strive to be trolldom's greatest defender against the gnomish onslaught.

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Reference

BIGHMK001729

Release date

2022-09-05

Age

12+

Number of players

2-5

Game length

75 min.

Rules Difficulty

Complex

Theme

Fantasy

Language

EN , FR

Author

Graeme Jahns , Jay Cormier

Illustrator

Josh Cappel , Kwanchai Moriya

Product type

Game

Mechanics

Action Points , Area Majority / Influence

Concentration

Intense

Atmosphere

Relaxed

Collection

In the Hall of Mountain King

Weight

0.00 KG

Package size

0.00 x 0.00 x 0.00 CM

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