Avalon

Card game in the excellent two player small square box series. The players vie for supremacy over a row of 11 regions, some of which grant their controller advantages. The cards depict knights and sorceresses in various colours, and these can be placed next to the various terrains to reinforce or to attack the opposing forces there, and thus if successful gain control of the region. As usual with this designer, the mechanisms are clever and a little unusual - the sorceresses are potentially powerful, but if countered can give your opponent an advantage, whereas knights are needed in order to attack a region. Finally, winning a battle is not all good news as there is a potentially large cost in hand cards to be paid by the victor. German edition 2003. UK postage flat fee £4 for 1st game, £7 for 2 games or more. All games shipped UK Royal Mail tracked 48. Non UK postage by request. No postage cost if picking up at one of my open days. (www.madhatterboardgames.co.uk for more info.)