The second National Guardians of the City Tournament was a great success. Read more about it here.

We've just held our first ever National Guardians of the City Tournament, and a whopping 64 teams from secondary schools around the country came for it. We all had a blast, and we're already looking forward to next year's competition! READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE!

The first ever inter-school Guardians of the City Tournament was held on 31st May 2017 at the National Cadet Corps Headquarters. 36 secondary schools throughout Singapore sent teams to compete.

After an entire day of competition, the NCC (Air) team from ACS (International) emerged as the champions.

The combined team from Punggol Sec/Compassvale Sec finished second, and the boys from Victoria School were third. 

The winners received prizes from Nexus and NCC, as well as limited edition plastic cards from Falling Piano Games:

It was an exciting and fun day for the 300+ students who came, and special thanks goes out to the team from Nexus and NCC, who made everything possible and ran the event smoothly the whole day. 

This tournament has whet our appetites for something even bigger, and we look forward to the National inter-school Guardians of the City Tournament taking place in November 2017, open to students from all schools. Stay tuned for more information!

Hey everybody, in this video, I explain how to quickly merge your expansion pack into the basic set of Guardians of the City, to create GOTC Vol.2.

With the NCC Competition just around the corner, here's what you need to know about Guardians of the City Vol.2:
(click on the buttons to download)

Have fun playing!

The first official expansion to Guardians of the City has arrived! Just in time for our first ever inter-school competition, to be held at the National Cadet Corps HQ on 31st May!

GOTC Vol.2 brings the game to a new level - players are to build their own Action card and Crisis card decks. To facilitate this, three new categories of cards are introduced in Vol.2, starting with enhanced abilities in the Galvanised People class:

A completely new class of Crisis cards brings the Terrorists to a different level of menace:

And finally, to deal with these new Subversives, there's also a new class of Action card:

Stay tuned for more, including explanation of Vol.2 rule changes and an exciting new add-on pack which introduces game boards and tokens!

Guardians of the City Vol.2, the latest version of GOTC, will be launched on 31st May 2017, at the National Cadet Corps GOTC Competition at NCC HQ. GOTC V2 will feature new cards, rule tweaks, and a whole new deck-building mechanic. Stay tuned!

Guardians of the City is a Total Defence (TD) strategy card game to help youths have a deeper understanding of TD and the complexity of terror threats, and to show them how we can all play a part to keep Singapore safe and secure. It also shows how society can come together to better prepare for crises, respond to them, and recover from them.
 
All National Cadet Corps (NCC), National Police Cadet Corps (NPCC) and National Civil Defence Cadet Corps (NCDCC) units will receive sets of the card game as unit resource by 10 February 2017. Every NCC cadet will also receive a personal set at the same time. All other Uniformed Group (UG) students will get their personal sets by May 2017.

The following resources accompany the game:

1.    How to Play: Watch a short video on how to play Guardians of the City at our Total Defence YouTube page. You can also download the instructions by clicking here.

2.    Advanced Rules: Here are some Advanced Rules for an even more exciting play of Guardians of the City!

• Diminished Capabilities. Each team's total National Effort points in every turn will be eight plus the number of Citizen Group cards. At the start, this means each team has eleven points (eight plus three), but by the end of the game, they may have only nine points (eight plus one, if only one Citizen Group card is left in the game). At the same time, the number of Crisis cards drawn every turn by each team is equal to the number of Terrorist Cells still active in the game. If there are three Terrorist Cells active, each team draws three Crisis cards per turn, and if there is only one Terrorist Cell, each team draws only one Crisis card per turn.
• Inefficient Government. Each team can only reallocate National Effort points among the five pillars every TWO turns, starting with the first turn. Hence, each team can allocate National Effort points in turn one, turn three, turn five and so on. During turn two, turn four, turn six, and so on, the National Effort points remain fixed according to what had been allocated the previous turn.
• Aggressive State Action. Each team can hold five Action cards in their hand. When drawing new cards at the end of their turn, the must draw enough to bring the hand back up to five. Furthermore, each team can play three Action cards per turn instead of the usual two.

3.    Game Resource Kit: The game resource kit provides a detailed plan on introducing Guardians of the City to participants, and case-studies to discuss how they can play their part in TD. It includes a Checklist, Game FAQs, and additional reading materials. You can download the game resource kit by clicking here.

4.    Post-Game Reflection: A set of PowerPoint slides that can be used during the post-game reflection can be downloaded by clicking here.

5.    Reflection Video: Watch a video designed for a short post-game reflection at our Total Defence YouTube Page.

For queries, you may contact Nexus at nexus@defence.gov.sg.