Indiana Jones Games: LEGO HEROICA Castle Fortaan 3860

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Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 10.7 x 2.6 inches ; 1.1 pounds
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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ASIN: B004OWNSCC
Item model number: 4611741
Manufacturer recommended age: 8 years and up
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Castle Fortaan 3860 is one in a series of exciting HEROICA LEGO adventure games. Build the castle scene with custom LEGO bricks, setting the stage for your heroes. Roll the buildable LEGO die to travel the course, battle monsters, seek treasure, and complete the mission. Play Castle Fortaan by itself or combine it with other HEROICA game locales for an epic experience. This expandable role-playing adventure game is designed for two to four players.
Arm your Hero with the Helmet of Protection and blue Speed Potion to help them charge through the castle. .
Build your own game board as you play good against evil in a battle for victory..
Storm Castle Fortaan and Attain Glory
Castle Fortaan has fallen to the Goblin King and his army of monsters. You must find a way past the Goblin horde to defeat the King, but can you discover his secret battle plans and return safely with the Helmet of Protection? Fight and defeat 11 daunting enemies along your journey.
Castle Fortaan is designed for two to four players, so you can invite friends to join you in a fight for justice and glory.
Build the Scene and Begin the Battle
It wouldn't be LEGO if you didn't begin by creating your world. Build Castle Fortaan from scratch using the included 304 pieces and building instructions. Then roll the buildable LEGO die to navigate your heroes down the path, repel your enemies, and take on the Goblin King to claim his coveted treasure. Game play lasts 10 to 20 minutes.
Experience the Dramatic HEROICA Adventure Series
Castle Fortaan is just one game in the HEROICA LEGO adventure series. You can play it by itself or combine it with other sets to create an even greater escapade. Other adventures in the HEROICA series are Draida Bay, Waldurk Forest, and Caverns of Nathuz.
What's in the Box
HEROICA Castle Fortaan 3860 set with buildable Castle Fortaan landscape, four heroes, 11 monsters, buildable LEGO die, building instructions booklet, rules booklet, and mission map.

Draida Bay 3857
Waldurk Forest 3858
Caverns of Nathuz 3859
Castle Fortaan 3860
Castle Fortaan has fallen to the Goblin King and his army of monsters. You must find a way past the Goblin horde to defeat the King, but can you discover his secret battle plans and return with the Helmet of Protection Become a hero, and join the battle to free Heroica. Every Heroica game is a unique adventure to build and explore, with new heroes, monsters, weapons and treasure. Become a hero, and join the battle to free Heroica. The Goblin King has captured Castle Fortaan. An expandable world of adventure for 24 players. 304 lego pieces, rules booklet and poster. Building instructions included. The goblin king has captured castle fortaan An expandable world of adventure for 24 players Included are 304 lego pieces, rules booklet and poster Building instructions included
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LEGO HEROICA Castle Fortaan 3860

Product Features

The goblin king has captured castle fortaan
An expandable world of adventure for 2?4 players
Included are 304 lego pieces, rules booklet and poster
Building instructions included

Consumer Reviews

I got this to play with my 6-year-old son. It is fairly substantially exactly what it looks like: a cool small Lego dungeon-crawler. Every Heroica set (we also got Waldurk forest) comes with a particular number of 'rooms' and 'hallways' that can be combined in pretty much endless strategies. Then you populate the dungeon with monsters and treasure and have at it.
Fortaan comes with a whopping 11 rooms: two generic rooms with torches in the corners, 2 rooms with a small table, book, and chair, 2 fortress rooms with crenellated parapets, an entrance location with a tree and a drawbridge, a feast room with a fireplace and a chicken leg (no kidding), an enchanted pool with a tree and a frog, a prison space with a barred door, and a throne room with banners and columns. It also includes 15 microfigures: four heroes, 6 goblins, 4 armored goblins, and 1 goblin king. For treasure, there are gold pieces, potions (speed, strength, luck, and well being), two treasure chests, and a cool microfigure helmet.
There are three books in the box: the typical instruction book, a rule book, and an "adventure" book with a mini-comic and three recommended dungeon layouts. The dungeon layouts are not presented in any certain order, but if you appear at the bits that are supposed to be included in each and every a single, you can assemble them into a mini-campaign that ends with a confrontation in the throne room with the goblin king.
Each and every hero comes with a color-coded hero pack for storing their health points, gold pieces, potions, weapons that they've bought from the shop, and enemies vanquished. My son and I have a house rule that you can turn in every single four vanquished enemies for 1 piece of gold.
The rulebook describes 2 strategies to play the game: a competitive mode in which the heroes race to total the objective for that adventure (either finding to a certain space 1st, or beating the boss monster), and a player-vs-DM mode in which 1 player controls the bad guys. My son and I play it a third way. We every take one hero and cooperate on obtaining via the dungeon, taking out all the monsters, and collecting all the treasure. There is not a lot of 'game' involved considering that there's no way to lose--heroes who shed all their health points can simply stop and regenerate them with die rolls--but we each have a lot of entertaining and it beats the heck out of Candyland.
There are at present 4 Heroica sets accessible: Fortaan (castle), Waldurk (forest), Nathuz (caves), and Draida (seaport). Fortaan is the largest. Waldurk and Nathuz each have eight-10 tiles (or rooms) and distinctive monsters, spiders and werewolves in Waldurk, and bats and golems in Nathuz. Draida is tiny, with only 4 or five tiles. Any and all of the sets can be combined, and this is my son's preferred issue to do. We take all of the tiles, monsters, and treasures from Fortaan and Waldurk and set them up together to make one particular super-dungeon. The adventure booklet also shows how to link all 4 of the initially wave sets together.
Is this worth it? Depends on your child's age and interests. For youngsters 6-ten I feel it is a gold mine. It encourages tactical thinking, memory, and some highly basic math. There is also lots of scope for creativity and spatial thinking, considering that the tiles and bridges can be laid out in so lots of distinct techniques. The bits are cool and even played cooperatively it is a enjoyable way to pass the time. There's nothing scary or occult in the game it is all pretty innocuous.
As for myself, I'm quietly counting the days until my son is old sufficient for stronger fare like tabletop wargames and RPGs. In the meantime, Heroica is a theme-heavy but light-play game that keeps us each entertained.

I'll come suitable out and state explicitly that I am a large fan of the Lego games and that our family owns a rather embarrassing quantity of them. My seven-year-old daughter is one thing of a tomboy and is heavily into Legos. Though all of the games appeal to her, she appears to have taken a certain shine to the Heroica line. As my husband is a significant Dungeons and Dragons fan as nicely as a Lego fan, these games seem to be the excellent convergence of the two interests. In other words, this game is a win, win, win as it pleases a wide variety of interests and age groups in our family.
What is truly nice about the Heroica process in comparison to other Lego games is that it's even additional diverse. You can play every game in the series separately or you can combine any quantity of them to make larger games. This is properly worth undertaking. We have 3 of the four Heroica games and each 1 contains at least 1 new element: new creature varieties, new heroes, and other objects like potions and weapons racks. What's specifically good about Castle Fortaan is that it contains 4 distinct heroes, all four potion forms, and a weapons rack, so it is the most complicated of the four games in the series. Whilst I wouldn't say that this makes the game educational in a classic sense, I like that it encourages my daughter to be analytical and strategic in her decisions. Prior to we even play the game, the three of us quite often end up talking about the rewards of playing as the knight versus playing as the barbarian, and the addition of the weapons adds a different layer of complexity. This truly has helped us to educate my daughter how to view moves from a wide variety of angles and to weigh her options, resulting in her moving beyond the straightforward Candyland sort of method to games and into the realm of strategy.
The other terrific function of this series is that the games are quite customizable--this 1 in specific. This is the largest of the four games, so it comes with the most pieces, allowing for the construction of multiple rooms and connection pieces. The game comes with a guide to setting up about three diverse configurations, but you can quickly create your personal basically by attaching the rooms to every other in unique ways. This is a different area where some larger-level thinking comes into play, given that it has helped us to function with my daughter on some reasoning and logic expertise, as nicely as more complex patterns. Initially, she was prone to setting the game up in a single line, but we've worked with it to show her how building totally different routes to the ending can make the game alot more intriguing, as nicely as how to add incentives to each route, such as placing potions or gold pieces or treasure chests in strategic regions.
The basic notion of the game is quite uncomplicated. Mainly because there are distinct scenarios that can be set up, there are various end points, such as defeating the boss or collecting vital items--or each. Every single player rolls to move and then, when a creature is encountered, rolls to see what the outcome of the battle is. Each monster kind has its own strength value, with the boss's being the highest. Defeat implies that your hero loses a number of wellness points equivalent to the strength of the creature. If your hero loses all of their wellness, you have to devote as a great number of turns as you need to have "resting" till you regain all of your well being (in this case, the die rolls indicate the number of well being points regained each turn).
As with all Lego games, the creating is element of the fun. Upon initially opening the box, you're presented with various plastic packages containing all of the pieces you want to construct the "board", along with the hero and creatures pieces, pieces for developing potions, etc. As with all factors Lego, I never cease to be amazed with the approaches in which those small blocks can be arranged to make various objects. Constructing is quite straightforward and not also tough. My daughter can commonly create every single component with minimal guidance from either me or my husband.
This game has provided us with several hours of enjoyment and promises a number of more to come. While we all appreciate board games, I acquire that it really is at times complicated to find games that we can all take pleasure in playing together. For the most element, Lego games entertain all of us equally, so we're all equally eager to play. This is specifically correct of Heroica considering it is entertaining not only to play it, but also to style the board. In truth, often we devote so considerably time having fun setting the game up that we don't even get to the playing component.