Campaign / Battle Card Driven Mechanics in Board Games
Board games use a variety of mechanics to provide structure and challenge. One such mechanic is the "Campaign / Battle Card Driven" system. Here's an overview of what it entails.
Definition
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games are characterized by the use of cards to drive game actions, with a strong narrative arc or series of linked scenarios that unfold over multiple play sessions.
Key Elements
- Narrative Progression: Players go through a storyline that evolves as they make choices and complete objectives.
- Card Management: Strategic use of a hand of cards to execute actions or influence the game outcome.
- Adaptability: Players must adapt their strategies to the evolving scenarios and the cards available to them.
Gameplay Implications
- Strategic Depth: Players must balance short-term objectives with long-term game progression.
- Variability: Each game session can evolve differently based on decisions and card play, enhancing replayability.
Popular Examples
- Gloomhaven: A cooperative campaign-driven game where players use cards to determine their actions during combat.
- Twilight Struggle: A two-player game simulating the Cold War, where cards are used to influence global politics and conflicts.
These mechanics provide an engaging blend of storytelling and strategy, making them popular among board game enthusiasts.
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games illustrated by Jason Taylor
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Player Elimination games
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games illustrated by Julien Delval
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Command Cards games
Novel-based themed games with Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Turn Order: Claim Action games
Explore unique, tricky strategies in the Arcs base game with new Leaders, and add wild twists to both the Arcs base and campaign games with new Lore.Mechanisms:• Action Points• Area Majority / Influence• Area Movement• Campaign / Battle Card Driven• ...
Arcs: Leaders & Lore Pack
$15.00
$12.99
Chaos reigns. Movements bloom loud like desert flowers, promising safety, liberation, communion, or simply the honor of glorious death in the struggle. What will you promise?The Blighted Reach Expansion adds an innovative campaign to Arcs. Over a three...
Arcs: The Blighted Reach Expansion
$100.00
$83.00
Exploration themed games with Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Post-Napoleonic themed games with Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games published by Fantasy Flight Games
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Variable Player Powers games
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games published by GMT Games
Clash of Sovereigns is a 2-4 player card-driven game of the War of the Austrian Succession. The Bourbon (French, Spanish, Prussian) and Pragmatic (Austrian, British, Piedmont) alliances battle across central Europe from Paris to Konigsberg and Naples...
Clash of Sovereigns: The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48
$69.00
$50.00
Time of Crisis is the game that allows 2-4 players to re-create the Roman Crisis of the Third Century, leading separate dynasties in a struggle for control of an empire beset by threats both internal and external. The Age of Iron and Rust provides new...
Time of Crisis: Age of Iron & Rust Expansion
$135.00
$18.99
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Hexagon Grid games
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games designed by Rodney Thompson
Dungeon Command features themed miniature factions designed to play as unified war bands, in a game eliminating luck-driven mechanics in favor of player-driven skill, creativity, and quick thinking.Each Dungeon Command faction comes in its own box, ...
Dungeons & Dragons - Dungeon Command: Tyranny of Goblins
$85.00
Dungeon Command features themed miniature factions designed to play as unified war bands, in a game reducing the effect of luck-driven mechanics in favor of player-driven skill, creativity, and quick thinking.Each Dungeon Command faction comes in its...
Dungeons & Dragons - Dungeon Command: Sting of Lolth
$65.00
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games illustrated by Paweł Kurowski
Caesar - Rome vs. Gaul
$129.95
Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul is a fast-playing, easy-to-learn, two-player card-driven game on Caesar’s conquest of Gaul. One player plays Caesar as he attempts to gain wealth and fame in Gallia at the expense of the Gauls. The other player controls all the...
mostly positive, 78%
14 y/o +
2 players
240 minutes
Involved
War Game
Ancient Civilization
Roman Empire
Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Dice Rolling
Events
Hand Management
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Role Playing games
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Area Majority / Influence games
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Storytelling games
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games designed by Mike Wylie
TARAWA 1943 is a solitaire, card driven game on the invasion of Japanese controlled Tarawa by the 2nd Marine Division. Join the 2nd Marine Division as you storm the beaches of Tarawa. Japanese commander Shibazaki and his men have had a year to prepare...
Tarawa 1943
$54.95
Napoleon Returns 1815 is our strategic level campaign game on Waterloo. With fewer than 25 pieces on the board strategic movement creates tension and campaign choices for both players. Further a limited number of movement points adds to the tough decisions...
Napoleon Returns 1815
$150.00
Book themed games with Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Spire's End
$45.00
$42.00
Spire's End is a solo and cooperative card game that hearkens back to the game books of the '80s with enemy encounters, interactive story-driven scenarios, and high-end art and design. It's a unique gaming experience without a lot of baggage. Simple...
mostly positive, 79%
16 y/o +
1 to 2 players
30 minutes
Relaxed
Card Game
Adventure
Book
Action Points
Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
Dice Rolling
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Line of Sight games
Solo / Solitaire Game with Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games illustrated by Noah Adelman
Resident Evil 3: The Board Game
-22%
$114.99
$89.95
This spine-tingling campaign board game will have you sleeping with the lights on. The latest instalment in the tabletop Resident Evil universe, Resident Evil 3: The Board Game builds on the survival horror engine that kept players of Resident Evil 2...
very positive, 85%
14 y/o +
1 to 4 players
90 minutes
Relaxed
Cooperative Game
Horror
Video Game Theme
Action Points
Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Campaign / Battle Card Driven and Simultaneous Action Selection games
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games published by Delta Vision Publishing
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games published by Board Game Box
Northgard - Uncharted Lands, Wilderness
$24.95
Wilderness is an expansion to Northgard: Uncharted Lands. It contains additional creatures for the Creatures module, and rules for a whole new module: Environment tiles! This module reinforces the variety of the landscapes, adding a set of special tiles...
very positive, 86%
13 y/o +
2 to 5 players
45 minutes
Involved
Strategy Game
Fantasy
Medieval
4X
Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
Dice Rolling
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games designed by Rodger B. Mac Gowan
This is a print on demand copy and is not an original copy.Here I Stand was due for a reprint in 2017, but with October 31, 2017 being the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of his 95 Theses, Ed Beach and his team of Here I Stand enthusiasts...
Here I Stand: 500th Anniversary Edition
$294.95
$235.00
This is a print on demand copy and is not an original copy.Here I Stand was due for a reprint in 2017, but with October 31, 2017 being the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of his 95 Theses, Ed Beach and his team of Here I Stand enthusiasts...
Here I Stand - Wars of the Reformation, 1517-1555 (500th Anniversary POD)
$95.00
Campaign / Battle Card Driven games designed by Brian Asklev
1812 - Napoleon's Fateful March
$89.99
1812: Most of Europe is under Napoleon´s control, and Napoleon is poised to invade Russia and force them to comply with his Continental System and block British trade. In the face of overwhelming force, the Tsar reluctantly decides to fall back and ...
very positive, 90%
14 y/o +
2 players
90 minutes
Involved
Two-player Game
Napoleonic
Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Order Counters
Point to Point Movement