Fire Tower Game

Fire Tower Game

Fight Fire With Fire

Fire Tower is a fast-paced, tactical pattern-laying game that takes 15-30 minutes to play. You must protect your lookout tower from a rapidly spreading forest fire. Dispatch smokejumpers and fire engines to combat the blaze and construct firebreaks to fortify your tower.

But there is a twist! In Fire Tower, you also take on the role of nature. Harness the power of the wind to push the blaze towards your opponents and unleash an arsenal of fire cards to take down their towers before they can reach yours.

Prepare for a unique experience, a relentless battle for survival packed with shocking reversals and exhilarating victories. Most games about fire have some cooperative aspect, a team effort to beat back the flames. Fire Tower is a purely competitive game, where players have two objectives: defend themselves, and desperately try to spread the flames towards their opponents. Each player mans a fire tower and uses action cards and spatial planning to protect their fire tower and send the blaze towards their opponents. Every turn the fire spreads in the direction of the wind, and players must skillfully and efficiently manage their cards to avoid going down in flames. Players can harness the power of the wind to push the inferno towards their opponents, clear tracts of land to create a fortress around their towers, hinder the plans of their opponents with torrents of water, and unleash an arsenal of fire cards upon their foes. The choices are numerous; it's up you to make the right one.

Each player is assigned a fire tower in their corner of the board, and dealt five action cards and one Bucket card. The weathervane die decides which way the wind is blowing. Every turn, the fire spreads in the direction of the wind. Players can then use their cards to extinguish fire, build firebreaks, spread the fire, change the direction of the wind, and more.

Play the Smokejumper to descend into the fire and extinguish it from within; play the Dozer Line to expose nutrient rich soil that will bolster your defenses; or play the Burning Snag to send the inferno towards your opponent. When your tower starts feeling the heat, play your Bucket for temporary relief. Beware the Firestorm, which must be played the instant it's drawn. This card causes the fire to spread rapidly, and allows all players to discard and redraw their cards.

The momentum of the game can change at any moment. Towers surrounded by fire can still change their fortunes and the clear front-runner can suddenly find themselves engulfed in flames. Only solid spatial creativity and strategic planning can save players' towers from strong winds and the wrath of their opponents.

Game Includes:

• Quad-Fold Board
• 135 Fire Gems in Printed Cloth Bag
• 24 Purple Wooden Firebreak Tokens
• Custom Eight-Sided Wind Die
• Weather Vane Card
• 1 Custom Wooden Weather Vane Flame Meeple
• 52 Bridge-sized Action Cards
• 4 Bucket Cards
• Firestorm Card
• Mutual Aid Card
• Champion of the Wood Card
• Shadow of the Wood Card
• 3 Tower Ablaze/Forest Cards
• Rule Book

For 2-4 players
Game lasts 15-30 minutes
Fun for ages 10 through adult