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Darwin’s Choice – Before and After
Expansion of:
Darwin's Choice
60m - 120m
2 - 5 Players
Ages 10+
Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.
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Play occurs upon a modular board that is composed of multiple pieces, often tiles or cards. In many games, board placement is randomized, leading to different possibilities for strategy and exploration.Some games in this category have multiple boards which are not used simultaneously, preserving table space. Unused boards remain out of play until they are required.
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Maneuvers that directly attack an opposing player's strength, level, life points or do something else to impede their progress.
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elvis82566
Their footsteps have shaken the earth for millions of years. Large, heavy and armored, but also small, agile and deadly, dinosaurs shaped their time from the top of the food chain. Today, another species dominates, it moves on two legs, builds huge colonies and shapes the landscape like no other species before. Evolutionary, however, every challenge is also an opportunity. Find your niches, face the new situation and become Darwin's Choice. Darwin’s Choice - Before and After is the expansion to Darwin’s Choice and requires the base game. The expansion brings over 240 new Animal Cards into play, with a focus on dinosaurs and prehistoric species. In addition, human-made events and territories set the focus of this expansion on the consequences towards nature and evolution created by humanity. The expansion fits seamlessly into the theme of the base game and creates a reference to today‘s environmental challenges. All artworks are again beautifully hand-drawn by the French artist Rozenn Grosjean, giving the game its very own style. Since the team behind Darwin's Choice cares for the environment, the expansion will once again be solely made out of sustainable wood and contain as little plastic as possible. In addition, both the base game and the expansion will be 100% carbon neutral. Darwin's Choice is a competitive card game in which players create their own animal species from more than 230 animal cards. These animal species will be placed in biomes that differ strongly in their requirements and food availability. The highest possible adaptation of animal species to their biomes not only ensures their survival but is also rewarded with the coveted Darwin points. In addition to a high adaptation the species with the highest competitive strength are also awarded across all zones. Between the 3-4 eras played, conditions can change completely due to biome changes and event card effects. The task is now to adapt the successful animal species of the past eras to the conditions of the present, either through sophisticated mutations or smart migration to other biomes. However, you must always keep an eye on the animal species of the other players in order to anticipate their actions, because anyone who acts too quickly or imprudently might be unable to react at the decisive moment. Darwin's Choice is a strategic allocation game in which you must think carefully about how to use your cards. The large number of own possibilities and the ones of your opponent lead to a high variability, which makes thinking through each action and thinking ahead indispensable. The randomness caused by drawing cards (animal cards, biomes, event cards) requires flexibility and fast rescheduling. This results in each played game being completely different and thus guarantees a high replayability.
WhiteLocust
Adds more depth to an already excellent game. The human elements of the game demonstrate the impact we have on nature in a subtle but impactful way. The artwork is beautiful and the team at Treecer are brilliant - well worth following and supporting their projects on kickstarter.
Old Slimy
More cards is always good, but gameplay changes are a little strange thematically. Expansion directs you to use the human cards throughout all eras - wouldn't recommend this. At the back of the rulebook game describes a 'history mode' which should be the only way I'd play this going forward. Gives a prehistoric-to-human arc that makes way more sense. Rulebook is still pretty messy, and I really wish that we would have gotten some streamlined rules regarding the base game as well. This game is really asking for house-ruled versions of alternative game setups. There's a better game in the box than described via the rulebook. Pro-tip: if you have the table space, try using cardstock as a backboard for species clusters. makes it so much easier to migrate animals around. Backed via kickstarter - Expansion box art is even better than base cut out to form bottom of base box.