Chaostle from Chivalry Games Appears at Wizard World

Aug 16, 2011

During my weekend at Wizard World Chicago, I did get a chance to stop by the GAMA area. It was mostly filled with tables where you could check out one of the games that they had brought along, but there was one table where there were demonstrations of a game I hadn’t seen before called Chaostle.

It looks like a kind of 3d dungeon type game. It seemed pretty neat and has a lot of cool looking pieces. The walls pieces are molded plastic and the box weighs a ton. I didn’t get a chance to try it out, so I thought I’d look it up and pass some information along to you gentle reader.

Chaostle is a three-dimensional castle fantasy board game. Each player selects their starting armies that they will use to battle against their enemies in an attempt to conquer the castle for their King or Queen. The armies consist of many different fantasy fighters with unique skills and weaknesses. These fighters are custom plastic miniatures in the form of fantasy characters such as wizards, dragons, unicorns, knights, archers, etc. The game has many levels of strategy that can be offset by a wide range of fates (both good and bad).

Chaostle has many levels of strategy from picking your starting army to moving throughout the multi-level castle towards victory. A game with pure strategy, however, would be just another chess game and not like real life where nothing ever goes as planned. Therefore, chaostle has many fates that constantly effect the game ranging from mild setbacks to cataclysmic earthquakes. These unpredictable twists of fate can be either from the card of happiness or the card of doom.

Chaostle features 23 three-dimensional castle walls that are secured onto the game board. The fantasy fighters can move any direction throughout the castle including up and down stairways to change levels. The castle sections were originally sculpted by Bruce Hirst of Hirst Arts.

The game comes standard with sixteen collectible plastic miniature characters. Additional characters will be available and released in the future as add-ons to the game that will be sold separately. The first set of eight add-on characters will be available soon after the release of the game. Adding new characters to the game adds to the strategy and variety of game play.

Each character has a battle card containing the character’s statistics, weapons, special skills and upgrades. The battle cards have holes where pegs are inserted to allow for easy tracking of the statistics and upgrades.

Many people were involved in creating the game Chaostle including fantasy artists Susan Dawe, Paul Abrams, Tom Sorensen, and others. The very talented sculptors Kevin Contos and Sandra Garrity custom made the miniature characters for the game. Chaostle was warped into this reality by Chivalry Games.