BATTALION

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OBJECTIVE OF BATTALION:  Be the player with the most chips at the end of the game

NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 3 – 6 players

MATERIALS:  104 cards, 10 chips or tokens for each player

TYPE OF GAME: Combat

AUDIENCE: Kids, Adults

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INTRODUCTION OF BATTALION

Battalion is a combat style card game for 3 – 6 players.  It’s creation is attributed to Upstate Art Concepts in the year 2001.  In this game, players are fighting to have the most chips at the end of the game.  Players will take turns attacking and defending with the loser surrendering their chips.  The game ends when a player runs out of chips.

THE CARDS & THE DEAL

Battalion is played with two 52 card decks.  Players will start with a ten card hand as well as ten chips.  The rest of the cards become a draw pile.  Flip the top card of the draw pile over to begin the discard pile.

In this game, players will only need to focus on the cards’ suits.  Card ranks do not matter unless you have two of the same cards.  Since this is a double deck game, a pair of two identical cards is possible.  Typically cards are worth 1 point each, but each card in an exact pair is worth 2 points each.

THE PLAY

Gameplay can be broken down into three phases: acquisition, bidding, combat. 메이저놀이터추천

ACQUISITION

On each player’s turn, beginning with the player on the left of the dealer and continuing in that direction, a player may draw one card from the top of the draw pile or the top of the discard pile.  That player then chooses one card from their hand and discards it.  Three rounds of Acquisition occur in total.  Once the dealer completes their third round of Acquisition, play continues to the Bidding phase.

BIDDING

Beginning again with the player left of the dealer, each player will bid to see who attacks first. A player’s bid equates to the number of cards that player will attack with if they go first.  A player that bids must bid at least 4.  If a player chooses not to bid, they may pass.  Subsequent bids must be higher than the most previous one.  For example, if Player 1 bids 5, the next player to bid must bid 6 or more.