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Wildlands

Confrontations in fallen lands

Wild lands and shards of power crystals are all that remains of the mighty Empire; you lead a faction with an individual deck of cards and fight for survival, treasures and glory.

In your turn you first reveal at least one hidden character, if you have unrevealed ones left; then you play as many cards as you want - choosing one of the card options - and reveal any number of characters. Finally, you draw three cards, but only up to a limit of seven cards in hand. Action cards provide actions linked to a character or actions that can be used by any character; Wild Action cards allow you to resolve any of three action options - movement, draw two cards or interrupt. If you are interrupted by the wild card action Interrupt, you can afterwards decide if you continue to play or end your turn and draw cards. The various factions offer individual traits and abilities and thus different tactics for confrontations. You win, if you collected five points from crystal shards and/or eliminated enemies, or with moist points when one player has lost all his faction characters.

The Wildlands The Unquiet Dead expansion introduces a new faction that can replace any faction in the core game or can be used for the new Encounter mechanism, where Unquiet Dead replace eliminated characters and can be used by all players.

A standard fantasy melee at first glance, but as it is by Martin Wallace, we find a completely new twist with the Interrupt action, providing unexpected turns and twists, as the interrupting player can be interrupted himself, and so on - melee yes, but fast, surprising and highly entertaining.

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 30+

Designer: Martin Wallace

Artist: Alyn Spiller, Yann Tisseron

Price: ca. 65 Euro

Publisher: Osprey Games 2018

Web: www.ospreygames.co.uk

Genre: Fantasy, conflict

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Standard topic

Short playing time

High fun factor

Interesting mechanism details

Compares to:

All fantasy conflict games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0