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Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef – Angler’s Cove

Expansion of: Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef (Retail Edition - Part 1)

60m - 90m

1 - 5 Players

Ages 14+
Card drafting games are games in which players pick cards from a limited subset, such as a common pool, to gain some advantage (immediate or longterm) or to assemble hands of cards that are used to meet objectives within the game.
Card Drafting
Dice rolling in a game can be used for many things, randomness being the most obvious. Dice can also be used as counters. The dice themselves can be unique and different sizes, shapes and colors to represent different things.
Dice Rolling
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.
Hand Management
The primary goal of a set collection mechanic is to encourage a player to collect a set of items.
Set Collection
Variable Player Powers is a mechanic that grants different abilities and/or paths to victory to the players.
Variable Player Powers
This mechanism requires players to select individual actions from a set of actions available to all players. Players generally select actions one-at-a-time and in turn order. There is usually(*) a limit on the number of times a single action may be taken. Actions are commonly selected by the placement of game pieces or tokens on the selected actions. Each player usually has a limited number of pieces with which to participate in the process.
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  1. Kickstarter Project http://kck.st/2EqEnX2 -Backed: 10/18/2018 -Funded: 11/09/2018 -Pledge Level: Pledge $89 or more: "Deluxe Edition - Kickstarter Exclusive One physical copy of Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef Deluxe Edition, which includes 1 copy of the Retail edition and 1 copy of the Deluxe Edition Box. (Kickstarter Exclusive) All unlocked retail & deluxe edition stretch goals included. Shipping added at the time of pledging. Want more than one copy? Just add an additional $89 to your current pledge amount plus shipping and handling to your region of the world for each copy. Please refer to our shipping section for the costs of shipping and add that to your pledge. INCLUDES: Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef - Retail Edition Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef - Deluxe Edition Box All unlocked Deluxe & Retail Edition Stretch Goals" -Payment: $101 -Survey 01/04/2019 pledgemanager -Projected Delivery: 10/2019 -Shipped: Status: DELIVERED 11/08/2020

  2. 7 out of 10

    I like having this extra board that lets you take a smuggler to get big rewards for a turn, I've played every game so far with it and I doubt I'll play a game of this without it.

  3. 7 out of 10

    This expansions allows for 5 players, which is ridiculous, but also adds an alternative character and a new spot on the board. The new board has extra powerful actions but award outcast tokens that may award negative points at the end. This mechanism we recognize from the Lords of Waterdeep expansion, but it's well-loved there and works well here. I however have two problems with it. The actions spaces are probably a bit too good. The negative points don't really compensate enough for 2 reasons. The first is that only the player with the highest value is guaranteed to lose points, which kind of takes the edge off. If you get high random numbers early, you might as well go all-in to compensate your 5 points and it's always best to try to stay in second place, which doesn't have any penalty while still getting the great actions, which may happen randomly and feels unfair. LoW did it so well - the more people took the bigger the penalty. That also allows for a no-corruption strategy, which is actively dissuaded here because if someone else goes hard you want to find the tokens that make the tokens lose points. The second reason is that the Angler's Cove location allows you to do any challenge, which is just incredibly flexible. It lets you draw a challenge and attempt it immediately, or get a bunch of resources and then complete a challenge using those resources. It's that one extra bonus that just makes these spots too good. I realize that if you couldn't do anything here it would be too bad, but that's what the Angler's Cove specific challenges are supposed to be. Speaking of those challenges, that's my other issue. The setup instructions means that there's always a special challenge available, but since these don't cycle they may get stuck and then you get none of the fun challenges. It seems like a weird extra rule that causes more problems than it solves.

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This expansion adds a 5th character and a new island to the base game. This new island offers new tough choices and works at any player count, adding even more replayability to the game

Contents:
1 Player Board
1 Character Standee
3 Goal Cards
8 Character Cards (+all Special Unlocks)
4 Energy Discs
14 Dice (4 Novice, 4 Initiate, 2 Elite, 4 Guild)
15 Hit Tokens
1 Island Board
30 Outcast Tokens
10 Fruit
10 Shells
8 Market Cards
9 Challenge Cards
3 Stunt Cards
2 Monster Cards

Ages

14+
Players

Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players, 5 Players
Play Time

60m – 90m
Designer

Ben Eisner, Tim Eisner
Mechanics

Card Drafting, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Set Collection, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement
Theme

Expansion for Base-game
Publisher

Druid City Games
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