Claustrophobia

[Old Dwarf]

Claustrophobia is a Board Game (Duengon crawl)
from Asmodée Editions @$50

Set in the world of the skirmish game Hell Dorado.
The background is that during the 30 Years War
the brutality & carnage that Europe inflicted on
itself resulted in portals to Hell begining to opened up.

These entrances to Hell mainly appeared in cities
after the usual sieges/sacks/pillage/rape was over.
Humanity was so brutalized by the constant fighting
that rather than being appalled they saw Hell
as a new area to be colonized & the waring
nations of Europe backed by their religious
Missionaries & Jesuits moved to conquor the new
lands.The Demons who controled the levels of Hell
of course resisted.

This game is for two players, one plays the demons and the other the human Westerners. The two camps are found in the middle of labyrinthine sewers.

The board is built during the course of the game.
Claustrophobia is scenario based, resulting in a high replay value, especially as each camp is played differently…

For the Westerners it is a question of surviving the increasingly violent attacks of the demons. While the light sources are reduced progressively, the demonic troglodytes become increasingly stronger and return in ever increasing numbers!

Of course the human player has to organize their figurines to keep them protected, while using their equipment as well as possible in order to win the scenario!

The Game includes pre painted plastic for both
the Westerners(Europeans) & the Demonic Forces.

content

17 PPP miniatures, as follows:

- 1 Brother
- 2 Brutes
- 2 Blades

VS

- 1 Major Demon
- 11 Lesser Demons

other:

- 36 tiles (rooms and corridors)
- 5 status receptacles to track the humans stats and health
- 25 damage tokens (pins)
- 1 control panel for the Demon player
- 7 reference cards for the Demons
- 20 Lurking tokens
- 10 damage markers (flat)
- 3 tunnel markers
- 2 Tough breed markers
- 1 Courage marker
- 1 Support marker
- 4 Treasure markers
- 3 Seal of Protection markers
- 6 Aura cards
- 6 Item cards
- 15 Advantage cards
- 16 Event cards
- 1 10 sided dice (for timing)
- 12 6 sided dice
- 1 rule booklet with 6 scenarios

Ok its a weird theme Game but the board tiles are
beautiful & I'm a sucker for modular tile games.

The Game World it's set in is the same as Hell Dorado
the Skirmish Game which came out a couple of years ago
but was mainly limited to France.It was never really
made available in the US so although I was interested
there wasn't much point in trying to get into it.Plus
I don't really need to pick another Skirmish Game
which I need to paint figs for.

Claustrophobia however offers a much cheaper
way to invade Hell & The figs are the same size as
the Hell Dorado metal Skirmish Game ones so the
door is open for Home Brew expansions using
other Factions.Hell Dorado has just been sold
off to a US Game company & production will soon start
in the US which will take the hassle out of obtaining
figs.

Again like AToE it offers an historical time period
setting in this case the 1600's which I really
like.

Oh-yes I ordered it.

OD