Fantomet board game
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The Fantomet board game was released by Alga in 1984.
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Facts
- Publisher: Alga
- Publishing year: 1984
- Game author: Dan Glimne
- Box cover art: Rolf Gohs
- Map art: Özcan Eralp
- For 2-4 players, ages 8 and up
Contents
- 1 game board (map of Bengali)
- 2 dice
- 4 playing pieces
- 58 "Jungle drum"-cards
- 36 "Event"-cards
- 17 "Singh-pirate"-cards
- 12 "Morristown"-cards
- 4 "Injured"-cards
- 1 "President Luaga"-card
Rules
The storyline of the game is that the players, all in the role of The Phantom, must free president Luaga who is beeing held captive on a secret location by the Singh pirates. The game board shows a map of Bengali. The map is divided into small spaces that the players move their pieces in.
The players move around on the board and draw different cards. Some cards say that the player is meeting someone in the jungle. It might be friendly or hostile encounters. The player might do one of three things:
- hide and avoid the encounter
- fight the encounter
- friendly approach
Which of these actions that can be done is printed on the card together with a difficulty number. To succeed the player needs to roll equal to or above the difficulty number on two six-sided dice to succeed.
There are cards that the players can keep on hand and use when they have an encounter. One example of such a card is "Devil" that will give +1 on the fight or hide die roll.
Some cards display the jungle telegraph. On each of these cards the jungle telegraph will tell a rumour of where the president might be held captive. There are five different locations he can be held: Bengalitown, Corba, Trondelay, Tower of the Albatross and Kaz-Mir-Ora. When a player gets two cards that both point to the same location, i.e. Corba, he may play these cards on his turn. When these cards are played, this location will no longer be just rumors, it will be the actual location the president is held captive. The player can choose if he wants to play these cards right away or wait and try to move closer before revealing them. But the longer he waits, the higher the risk that someone else will play two other cards that states the president to be held somewhere else.
The first player that gets to the location the president is being held captive, has to fight through 12 Singh-pirate encounter cards. He'll have to fight these pirates one card at a time. If the player gets heavily injured, he has to move his playing piece to dr. Axel's Jungle hospital for healing. Now the next player who arrives to the Singh pirate's hide-out can continue fighting the remaining cards.
When one player has fought all the Singh-pirates, president Luaga is released. The player will now have to bring the president safely either to the Skull Cave or to Morristown. The other players are now taking the role of bandits and will start chasing The Phantom. If one of the bandits land on the same space as the player playing The Phantom, then these two will fight each other. They both roll the dice and if the bandit wins, he will now take over the role as The Phantom and continue to move the president to safety.
The winner is the player that gets the president safely to the Skull Cave or to Morristown.
