2024Thomas Carlier
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1 - 5 players15 - 30 minLight weight

2024Thomas Carlier
From BoardGameGeek
Welcome to Valroc, the famous city of wizards. You are one of them competing in a great tournament to acquire the Archmage title. With the help of your assistant, earn skill points in each of the 4 elements (Fire, Water, Earth and Air) and enter the arena to tame and chase the most dangerous creatures from the land. Will you take risks in fighting mythical creatures, use black magic or rely on your own knowledge to achieve this actions? Train yourself, attend magical lessons and make offerings to the gods… As many possible strategies as imaginable but only yours will lead you to victory! In Valroc, you play wizards in competition to acquire the Archmage title. For that, you will have to defeat terrible creatures (or tame them). The first player who has defeated or tamed six creatures ends the game. The winner is the player with the most Prestige Points. The game is split into two different phases : • The first one is a draft phase in which the players must select the creatures they will have to fight. Thereby they will prepare their tournament as well as possible. • The second phase is the tournament in which the players will fight against each other by a worker placement mechanism.
Valroc has 4 videos from 4 creators: 3 reviews and 1 how-to-play guide. They date from 2021 to September 2022.
To learn the rules, start with "OFPG - Valroc Preview" by Our Family Plays Games, which runs 8 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "VALROC - DT Preview with Mark Streed" by The Dice Tower. 3 creators have reviewed it.
If you like it, try Eternitium, also by Thomas Carlier, or Bruxelles 1893, Don't Go In There and Oranienburger Kanal, which share several of its mechanics.
2024Thomas Carlier
1 - 5 players15 - 30 minLight weight
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2 - 5 players50 - 125 minHeavy weight
2022Jeff Chin, Andrew Nerger
2 - 5 players25 - 35 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Welcome to Valroc, the famous city of wizards. You are one of them competing in a great tournament to acquire the Archmage title. With the help of your assistant, earn skill points in each of the 4 elements (Fire, Water, Earth and Air) and enter the arena to tame and chase the most dangerous creatures from the land. Will you take risks in fighting mythical creatures, use black magic or rely on your own knowledge to achieve this actions? Train yourself, attend magical lessons and make offerings to the gods… As many possible strategies as imaginable but only yours will lead you to victory! In Valroc, you play wizards in competition to acquire the Archmage title. For that, you will have to defeat terrible creatures (or tame them). The first player who has defeated or tamed six creatures ends the game. The winner is the player with the most Prestige Points. The game is split into two different phases : • The first one is a draft phase in which the players must select the creatures they will have to fight. Thereby they will prepare their tournament as well as possible. • The second phase is the tournament in which the players will fight against each other by a worker placement mechanism.
Designer
Thomas Carlier
Artist
Sophie Garcia
Publisher
Haumea Games
Mechanics