Brettspiel-News.de – Review | 3000 bastards

By Thorsten & Vera on August 15, 2023. Take a board game quiz

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Traveler has kept our sleepy western town busy for the past few years. Now he’s gone and there’s a rumor that he was a time traveler from the future. We should start looking for technologies left behind before government officials take them… who knows what they’ll do with them? Let’s go, bastards! Look out for Traveler’s Atoms, they’re worth more than anything we can find in the gold mines of the Wild West!

Asmodee kindly provided us with “3000 Bastards” to review.
This has no effect on our rating!

Game description

In “3000 Villains” we are trying to steal hidden safes with the help of our villains, where the most valuable technology of a time traveler is hidden at best. The highlight of the game is the villain mechanics, which allow us to create an engine in the game or enable effects on the cards played or certain scenarios. Each villain consists of a base card (the villain trait) and a clear card (the villain function) which are placed together in the card deck. This also brings us directly to the title of the game, Villains 3000, because in the game there are 3000 different combinations of villains in the game.

The game is played in two or three rounds in which we play four poker cards in each round. Each card slot on the game board has a different ability and allows us to get money, view or steal safes. Another important concept in the game is bluffing, because the cards played are played face down and an unsuitable card can also be played in any card slot. All other people at the table have the opportunity to challenge my card with their minions during my turn. If they are right in their assumption, reputation points will pop up, resulting in more victory points at the end of the party and I lose reputation points accordingly.

In each round there is the possibility to hire one of three villains with money or to perform one of three other actions in the mayor’s office. At best, we believe the bastards who bring us the greatest in-engine advantage. Most villains release their effect when we play a certain card or when we are next to an activated spinning card. Card effects allow us to get more money or check the safe. Skillful use of these effects is the key to winning the game. When the safe is scanned, it can be viewed in secret and the person places a numbered poker chip on the safe, which is supposed to show the value of the contents. You can also lie here, but if the value of the poker chip matches the value of the safe, then there is an additional victory point for each matching chip.

After two or three rounds, depending on the exact length of the game, the end of the game is declared. The person who has accumulated the most victory points through reputation, collected the three safes and played the bastards, wins the game.

Tags: 2-4 persons, wild west, 60-90 minutes, deception, tableau creation