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Heroes of Land, Air & Sea

War in Aughmoore!

The land has lost its magic and its wealth; four factions of the realm turn against each other - Humans, Orcs, Elves and Dwarves. You start the game as one of those for factions, commanding one warrior and two serfs, and want to expand your realm.

For this purpose, you explore the territory, expand your work force, fortify your army and build your capital - by clever selection of action, exploitation, war and resources management. Using expansion, recruiting and war enables you to acquire access to advantages and victory points.

A round of the game comprises three phases: Action selection - you place two action markers on action slots and can to the action once per round, unless spell or ability modify this. Action options are recruit unit, build, research or scribe spell, tax or various command actions. Collection - Acquisition of resources based on controlled regions, draw a spell card. End of Round - Remove tokens and serfs from action bar, rotate scribes spells that were cast.

If one of the X-Objectives is achieved - eXplore, all exploration markers are revealed;  eXpand, all serfs and warriors of a player are in play; eXploit, three towers of a player are in play, and eXterminate, someone has destroyed an opposing capital - the round is completed and then another full round is played. After that, you win with most VP from buildings, towers, units, spells, occupied regions, etc. This triggering cannot be revised.

A standard topic with well-used mechanisms, but interesting details, featuring a plethora of information, components and options, as well as very beautiful design.

Players: 1-4

Age: 14+

Time: 120+

Designer: Scott Almes

Artist: Adam P. McIver, Ian Rosenthaler

Price: ca. 105 Euro

Publisher: Gamelyn Games 2018

Web: www.gamelyngames.com

Genre: 4X

Users: For experts

Special: 1 player

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Extensive setup

Lots of component

Complex rules, many options

Compares to:

Other 4X Games

Other editions:

Gamelyn deluxe (en)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 3

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0