Stand with Batmann, Superman, Wonder Woman, and other DC Comics' most famous heroes to duel villains, crises and challenges! See what it's like to have superpowers and overcome evil!
Stand alongside Batmann, Superman, Wonder Woman, and other DC Comics’ most famous heroes to duel villains, crises, and challenges! See what it’s like to have superpowers and overcome evil!
Appendix Watchmen ( Watchmen )
Guardians is a crossover expansion pack that includes the plots and Superheroes of the Watchmen comic book series Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It allows us to play one of the legendary characters, such as Nocny Puchacz, Roschach, Komediant and Dr. Manhattan. In addition to the large Superhero cards, the set includes eleven cards of the Main Deck (perhaps not much, but they contain the most important characteristic themes for this series, such as the New York Location, Ship of the Eagle or Superpower Disintegration), as well as challenges, conspiracies, impure machinations and loyalty cards. The latter are secret and define the roles of the players. Most people will be part of the Loyal team working to overcome the Challenges, and one will become a Conspirator, sabotaging the activities of others and trying to finish the Main Deck as soon as possible. In a two-player game, it may happen that both players are Loyal, but not know it.
In order to speed up the game, the Conspirator uses the possibilities offered by regular cards (some of the expansion packs are especially beneficial for him, and one even allows him to destroy a Loyal player) or, if he succeeds, performs Dirty Machination. It allows him to lay out a secret plot, ensuring a constant effect of destroying cards from the Main deck each time he plays a card of a certain type. After he does, everyone knows who he is and they play together against him. To win, in addition to their Challenges, they must also defeat his Conspiracy.
The Superhero duel with the Guardians added becomes a typical “hidden roles” card game. It is therefore ideal for a party where, when playing in a larger group, it is more difficult to see who is the Conspirator, which can cause funny situations if, for example, someone makes a mistake about the identity of others and tries to disturb a teammate.
Just like in the Crisis, we also add a card to the bank every turn. Thanks to this (and the actions of the Conspirator), the game can be much faster than the basic game.
Summary – what to choose?
The Superhero Duel is perhaps not very original, it has some plot shortcomings, but it is quite fun to play. It is very attractively published and contains a multitude of appetizing comic book graphics, so it is a good collector’s item for fans of DC Comics.
Additional set 1: Crisis I definitely recommend to fans of cooperative games as well as people looking for an interesting single-player game. It expands the basis of the Duel of Superheroes with new story plots and gives it more sense and logic. Thanks to various modes and various elements modifying the difficulty level, it also strengthens its replayability.
The Rangers add-on gives the Superhero Duel the perfect form of a party game. The gameplay is faster and more dynamic. For a conspirator sabotaging the struggles of Loyal players, it will be much easier to hide their evil intentions in a larger group of people.