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All was peaceful in the idyllic land of Indines until a powerful artefact, the Belt of Beatdown, was discovered by the villainous Wardlaw O'Brien. With the belt, O'Brien was able to absorb the bar-fighting powers of the greatest fistfighters across the world. O'Brien scheduled a world-wide pub crawl and invited all the greatest fighters in the land to take part. Can you become the greatest fistfighter in the World of Indines by fighting your way through seven rounds, punching and gouging your way to supremacy?
At the start of 7-Card Slugfest, each player chooses one of eleven characters and takes a set of seven cards associated with that character. In each set, four cards are simple punches – doing a variable amount of damage – while three also have special effects. At the beginning of each round of the game, shuffle your deck and place it face down in front of you. A stage card is turned up to show the rewards for most, second and third most KO points this round.
When someone yells fight, the players simultaneously start picking up cards from their decks, looking at them, then playing them on another character. Whenever a player runs out of cards, they take a drink token from a common supply. Their character's stamina is ten, plus or minus the value of that drink token. When everyone has played his cards, the next step is to resolve the stacks of cards played on characters, applying damage. If a character's stamina is equalled or exceeded, the character who achieved the knockout earns a KO point. If a character survives all the punches aimed at him, then he receives the KO point. Players can also score two KO points for knocking out Boris, a non-player character. KO points are turned into gold according to each round's stage card, and the player with the most gold at the end of seven rounds wins.
At the start of 7-Card Slugfest, each player chooses one of eleven characters and takes a set of seven cards associated with that character. In each set, four cards are simple punches – doing a variable amount of damage – while three also have special effects. At the beginning of each round of the game, shuffle your deck and place it face down in front of you. A stage card is turned up to show the rewards for most, second and third most KO points this round.
When someone yells fight, the players simultaneously start picking up cards from their decks, looking at them, then playing them on another character. Whenever a player runs out of cards, they take a drink token from a common supply. Their character's stamina is ten, plus or minus the value of that drink token. When everyone has played his cards, the next step is to resolve the stacks of cards played on characters, applying damage. If a character's stamina is equalled or exceeded, the character who achieved the knockout earns a KO point. If a character survives all the punches aimed at him, then he receives the KO point. Players can also score two KO points for knocking out Boris, a non-player character. KO points are turned into gold according to each round's stage card, and the player with the most gold at the end of seven rounds wins.
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Alspach also passes along word that the second printing of Suburbia, which is out of print right now, has been completed and should be available in the U.S. in mid-July 2013 and in Europe before then since the game was printed on that continent. As for the Suburbia expansion, which he's mentioned a few times consists of more than just more buildings, Alspach says, "The entire expansion will be available for playing at Gen Con in August, but copies won't be available until Spiel 2013."
• Asmodee, which distributes titles from Swiss publisher Hurrican in North America and Europe, notes that while Paolo Mori's Augustus – nominated for the 2013 Spiel des Jahres award – won't go on sale in the U.S. until the Gen Con convention in August, copies will be available for demos at the Origins Game Fair in June 2013. For those who want to find out more about the game now, here's an overview of the game that I recorded at the Nürnberg Toy Fair in February 2013:
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