Guest Author - Lynn Little

Ages 8 and up

Players 2 or more

Playing Time 15-30 minutes

The Transformers are having a banner summer. The movie is a great box office success and the franchise also has its own card game. The Transformers 3D Battle card game is along the lines of Pirates since you get to construct your Transformers into two forms: vehicles and robots.

A pack of Transformers battle card comes with two transformers. Each card has all the stats needed to play as well as punch out tokens and HP tracker. One side of the card contains the stat for the vehicle form while the other side contains the stats for the robot form. Choose your Tranformer to do battle and put him in vehicle form, then place him on the table. There are four stages that make up the battle: choose attack, reveal attack, do damage, and do effects.

Choose Attack. Each form of the Transfomers has three different attacks that are represented by the three tokens(red, green, or blue). Choose your attack from your face up form and choose the corresponding color token, keeping your choice hidden from your opponent.

Reveal Attack. Both players reveal which attacks they've chosen.

Do Damage. The target color for each attack appears under the attack color on your card. If your opponent chooses the target color for your attack, then your attack does damage. Otherwise, it's a miss. Think of this as scissors, rock, and paper. Assign damage and move the hit point slider accordingly.

Do effects. Text that appears under the attack color happen when an attack hits. Some effects are bonus effects and appear under the target color. Those only happen when you hit. Resolve the effects.

Play until one player's hit points are at zero. There are also special rules that allow more people to get in on the action. Transformer cards include both Autobots and Decepticons. Tranformers is fairly straightforward to play with all the information you need printed on the card corresponding to each Transformer.
Fans will love building their Transformers while also playing a straightforward card game.