Hat-Trick: Base Game + 'Players' Expansion

Hat-Trick is a highly-tactical football card game for two players (managers) that simulates a complete football (soccer) match.

Managers use player-cards to make a football pitch and move their players, while two identical sets of action cards let them perform various actions: short passes, long balls or dribblings. Putting the ball in the final line of the pitch triggers a Scoring Opportunity phase, which is a mini-game in itself and is performed using shooting and goalkeeping cards.

The game contains 32 ready-to-play national teams of variable strength. Moreover, it is possible to customize your own teams based on any club in the world.

Hat-Trick: 'Players' Expansion, the first expansion for the card-driven soccer simulation Hat-Trick, includes rules and components for the following:

22 player roles – from now on you will be able to customize your line-up by assigning roles like Playmaker, False no. 9, Wingback, etc. to your players.

44 player skills – each of the 22 player roles has 2 unique skills - a stronger and weaker one. Depending which side a given player is on, he will be able to use one of these skills.

45 unique national teams – by means of the new system, the game recreates 45 national teams, each with different strength, line-up and playing style.

12 style cards – from now on each team will have an assigned playing style – technical, tactical, physical or total – and, thus, will be able to use the corresponding Style Cards to perform style-unique plays.

6 match events – the expansion introduces 6 match events like corners or substitutions.

3 budget cards – the Budget Cards make it possible to customize teams of different mentality (attacking, balanced, defensive) and affluence. This way you will be able to recreate any team in the world.