Hory + promo (Peaks CZ)

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Conquer the world’s highest peaks in the tactical board game Mountains! As daring climbers, you’ll plan challenging expeditions, gather mountaineering equipment and hire experienced guides. Your character improves with every successful step, and you can climb to the summit alone or form tactical alliances with your opponents. Enjoy an atmospheric adventure full of strategic decisions for 1 to 4 players, which also features the brilliant ‘Rakoncaj’ solo mode!

Get your ice axes ready, check your oxygen cylinders and set off on the expedition of a lifetime. Hory is a thrilling tactical board game for 1 to 4 players based on the popular ‘engine building’ mechanic. In it, you’ll take on the roles of brave mountaineers who, step by step, conquer iconic mountain giants around the world. S With every climb, your stamina and experience grow; you acquire better equipment and hire reliable mountain guides, thanks to whom you’ll be able to tackle even the most demanding challenges.

This game brilliantly combines the need for careful resource planning with a unique element of player interaction. Although you’re competing to be the first to place your flags on the game board, your opponents may join you during the climb itself. Whether you want them to or not! Climbing together will save you precious energy, but it will also bring experience and rewards to the others. Will you stick to safer routes, or risk a dangerous ascent and roll the danger die?

• Number of players: 1 to 4 (includes a fully-fledged and thrilling solo mode).
• Recommended age: 10 years and up.
• Playing time: Approximately 60–90 minutes.
• Clever ‘engine building’: Enhance the power of your actions and unlock permanent bonuses on your personal board.
• Co-op competition: Unique mechanics for joint expeditions, where players can help each other but still play for themselves.
• Solitary variant: Rakoncaj: A special mode for one player (or for a two-player game against a virtual opponent) named after the legendary Czech mountaineer Josef Rakoncaj.

On each of your turns, you choose to perform one of three possible actions, which you indicate by placing your large die on your personal board: REST, PREPARATION or ASCENT. Players take turns and gradually build up their base. As soon as 3 action dice have accumulated in any zone on the board, a player may discard these dice and trigger a powerful bonus action, which allows them, for example, to gain valuable experience or place another flag on the game board.

During the Rest action, you can move your figure to any continent for free and replenish your energy either to your current stamina level or by the value determined by your rest die. During the Preparation action, you replenish your hand with mountain cards and acquire essential equipment (tents, ice axes, oxygen cylinders, carabiners, crampons or climbing boots) required for more challenging ascents.

The key moment of the game is the Ascent action. You choose one of your face-up mountain cards and select either reward group X or Y to aim for. At this point, your opponents may also voluntarily join you. All participants move to the relevant continent and must meet the mountain’s requirements – spend energy, hand over the required equipment and collectively reach the necessary level of experience. If your combined experience (boosted, where applicable, by hired guide cards) is lower than the mountain’s requirements, you must take a risk and roll the danger die. If the roll fails, you risk losing the most valuable rewards. A successful ascent will grant you new experience, increase your stamina and allow you to place your flags on the game board. The game ends as soon as one player has placed all 16 of their flags.

As the game progresses, you can also enhance these basic actions using action upgrade tiles, which unlock powerful bonus actions for subsequent rounds.

The winner is the player who, at the end of the game, has the most flags on the game board and on completed bonus cards.

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