Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle – The Charms and Potions Expansion

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This much anticipated second expansion to Hogwarts Battle increases the player count to five Heroes including the newest playable character, Ginny Weasley! Enhance your experience with Charm abilities to aid you as you battle new Villains and Encounter even more challenges. Trouble is brewing, only by working together will you be able to protect the Wizarding World from He-Who-Must-…
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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle – The Charms and Potions Expansion

Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle allows players both young and old to take control of their own story and destiny in this deck-building cooperative game. 2-4 players must work together to defend Hogwarts from impending doom, the villains of the Harry Potter universe all launching attacks against you and the school. Consolidate your defences and create a strategy to push these evil forces back and gain victory over the dark lord himself!

Players have a choice of character to make, all famous Hogwarts students. They can choose from Harry, Ron Hermione or Neville, each having their own personal deck of cards that players must use to their advantage to acquire resources, fight enemies and protect both themselves and their team! Throughout the game, you must work as a team to come up with the best tactic to drive back the dark forces plaguing your progress. Gain influence and add more cards to your deck to become a real defence against these evil villains. These cards can be iconic characters that join the fight, or spells and magical items that you can add to your arsenal! Other cards will also allow players to regain health and fight against the Dark Arts, but use these wisely and timely, otherwise you may find yourselves in a fight you simply cannot win!

In Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle, you must all work together to stop the evil forces gaining power and overrunning both you and Hogwarts and it is only by working together that you can rid the land of the Dark Arts and secure the castle once more form the forces of evil!

The Charms and Potions Expansion increases the player count to five with a new playable character in Ginny Weasley. Along with Ginny are new villains and challenges, giving you even more reason to spend more time at Hogwarts!

Player count: 2-5

Time: 60-120 minutes

Age rating: 11+

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Rating

  • Artwork
  • Complexity
  • Replayability
  • Player Interaction
  • Component Quality

You Might Like

  • Theme theme theme theme
  • Easy set-up
  • More of the good stuff you loved in the base game
  • Ginny!

Might Not Like

  • Probably needing a new storage solution for all this awesome new stuff!
  • A bigger board area eating up your table space
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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle - The Charms and Potions Expansion

Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle allows players both young and old to take control of their own story and destiny in this deck-building cooperative game. 2-4 players must work together to defend Hogwarts from impending doom, the villains of the Harry Potter universe all launching attacks against you and the school. Consolidate your defences and create a strategy to push these evil forces back and gain victory over the dark lord himself!

Players have a choice of character to make, all famous Hogwarts students. They can choose from Harry, Ron Hermione or Neville, each having their own personal deck of cards that players must use to their advantage to acquire resources, fight enemies and protect both themselves and their team!

Throughout the game, you must work as a team to come up with the best tactic to drive back the dark forces plaguing your progress. Gain influence and add more cards to your deck to become a real defence against these evil villains. These cards can be iconic characters that join the fight, or spells and magical items that you can add to your arsenal! Other cards will also allow players to regain health and fight against the Dark Arts, but use these wisely and timely, otherwise you may find yourselves in a fight you simply cannot win!

In Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle, you must all work together to stop the evil forces gaining power and overrunning both you and Hogwarts and it is only by working together that you can rid the land of the Dark Arts and secure the castle once more form the forces of evil!

The Charms and Potions Expansion increases the player count to five with a new playable character in Ginny Weasley. Along with Ginny are new villains and challenges, giving you even more reason to spend more time at Hogwarts!

Player count: 2-5
Time: 60-120 minutes
Age rating: 11+

The Charms and Potions Expansion is the new expansion to the magical co-operative deckbuilding game, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle. This latest addition to this bewitching game brings another playable character, exciting charm abilities, and powerful potions for you to brew in your fight against more villains and encounters!

Heading to Hogwarts

It’s a jam-packed expansion, bringing it with a new board so you can increase your player count and a bunch of new, smaller boards that are placed above your life tracker. This new board is your charm ability, and you choose this at the beginning of the game from a variety of options. You can pick an ability to supplement your character’s ability, or you can try and shore up a weakness there. Hermione is all about using a lot of spells, so the Cheering charm might be for you – that also wants you to use a lot of spells during your turn. You might enjoy planning ahead for that one huge turn, so Permanent Sticking could be an option! Letting you save coins or damage counters until your next turn, this is perhaps the highlight of the box.

The other half of the expansion – potions – doesn’t feature until the second of four packs within the game, but it’s a belter. There’s a new fold-out board – called the Potions Cupboard – that goes beside the mainboard, and on top of that, you place a small overlay that gives you different goals to hit each turn. Any goals you meet, you get to pick a potion token from that shelf of the cupboard. You then place it on one of the two face-up potion cards at the bottom of the board. Once you’ve added all the necessary ingredients, you get the card! Beware though, there are new potion-specific Dark Arts cards here to ruin your day…

Lastly, of course, we have new cards for the Hogwarts, villain-creature, Dark Arts, encounter and location decks.

Wizarding Duel

During your turn, you’re able to use your charms ability, and that’s predicated on your health level. The lower your health, the more effective the ability. For instance, using Permanent Sticking – the top levels of health let you save coins, the middle levels let you save coins and damage, and the lower level lets you give unspent coins and damage to the next player. More than once I found myself choosing not to heal myself so I could use those better abilities.

At the end of your turn, you go to the aforementioned Potions Cupboard, and this is such a great addition to the game, I wonder how I even enjoyed it before! There are different two-sided overlays in the game, so you will have a good variety of goals to hit – some particularly challenging.

Does Magic Equal Might?

This is such a fun expansion to the game. My one gripe with the Monster Box of Monsters expansion was that it just made the game harder, but not necessarily more enjoyable. It’s not the kind of challenge you’re probably going to enjoy beating, it’s just frustrating. Charms and Potions, however, is marvellous. We loved the new abilities, we loved using Ginny, and we loved loved loved the Potions Cupboard. Getting to pick up these new Potions cards using a different mechanic than your standard cards-coins-more cards deckbuilding fare is very refreshing, and some of the abilities are spellbinding.

This is a must-have if you enjoy this fantastic game, and even if you were on the fence with the base game, this could well turn you into a fan.

Zatu Score

Rating

  • Artwork
  • Complexity
  • Replayability
  • Player Interaction
  • Component Quality

You might like

  • Theme theme theme theme
  • Easy set-up
  • More of the good stuff you loved in the base game
  • Ginny!

Might not like

  • Probably needing a new storage solution for all this awesome new stuff!
  • A bigger board area eating up your table space