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Thunder & Lightning

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  1. 6 out of 10

    You have to approach a game like T&L with a grain of salt. It's got some strategic depth, but it's highly tempered by the random chaos of the card shuffle. If you ever manage to cripple an opponent's column, that player has all, but lost as it's quite easy to combo cards long enough to always deny them an action point. In the end, this is a fun little distraction and taken as a distraction, you'll get a lot out of it. This is the kind of game you whip out at the end of the night for that one straggler who doesn't want to go home (or you are the straggler yourself). This is not a game you want to study or master; it just doesn't demand it. Some criticisms: The wooden pieces, while nice, are completely useless and the card text is vague beyond reason. These are oversized table-eating cards that have PLENTY of room to explain what a card does. Instead, the vague, ambiguous text will have you rifling through the rulebook index just to understand how a card is properly used. A little bit more thinking into the overall graphic design here would have helped the game by miles. Short version: Good, fun, but don't stress yourself over it.

  2. 8 out of 10

    Thunder and lightning is a re-implementation of Hera and Zeus. And the best way to explain the game is that it is Stratego in a deca-cards. It expands on Stratego in that the cards often have special actions or abilities but at the heart of the game it is still Stratego. One area where Stratego excels is the set up of your army and defenses, and thunder and lightning you just get a hand of cards and you try and build your army and a 3 x 4 grid in front of you. Overall a great game a lot of fun and can be played by two players in between 20 to 40 minutes. Very smoothly implemented, and has a timer so the game will end if no one wants to attack ( this is an improvement over Stratego). Surprisingly deep in strategy, and a game I think everyone, gamers and non-gamers, will like. Highly recommend it if you can get a copy.

  3. 7.4 out of 10

    Never got a chance to play this in its earlier, Greek-themed incarnation, but I am really enjoying the card play, the Challenges, the different abilities you can use when making them, and that streamlined, simple-to-teach head to head feeling where you have to make careful decisions each round. The artwork on this edition is killer, I love the Norse mythology and am always happy to have more games based in it, and there is just enough theme trickling through to make that worthwhile.

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In Thunder & Lightning, players take on the role of Thor or Loki and fight their way through an army in an epic mythological showdown. Because Loki has already stolen Odin’s Crown, the Allfather has entrusted his son Thor with his prized ring of power, Draupnir, to help him defeat the vile trickster. But who really has what it takes to gain control over both relics and therefore claim the throne of Asgard?

Thunder & Lightning, a reimplementation of Hera and Zeus, features the same gameplay as the earlier design, but with larger decks of cards with a different distribution of powers.

In the game, each player starts with nine cards in hand, then places three cards face down in their first row, with these rows butting against one another and each player having space for four rows in their playing area. If a player loses a card in a row, then any cards in the same column behind this card slide forward to fill the empty slot. On a turn, a player has as many action points as the number of columns they have in the playing area. They can use these action points to draw cards, play cards to the battlefield, play a mythological card for its power, or challenge an opponent’s card.

To challenge, the player chooses a card in their first row that abuts an opponent’s card, then reveals both of them. Most cards have a strength value (0-7), and the card with the lower strength value is discarded, with the opponent’s other cards in the same column then sliding forward.

If a player cannot use all of their actions or has no actions (due to having no cards on the battlefield) or loses control of Odin’s Crown/Ring, then they lose the game.

Ages

13+
Players

2 Players
Play Time

40m – 40m
Designer

Richard Borg
Mechanics

Action Points, Hand Management, Secret Unit Deployment
Theme

Bluffing, Card Game, Fantasy, Mythology
Publisher

Filosofia Éditions, Z-Man Games, Inc.
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