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Wildlands
30m - 60m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
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19.50€
19.50€
The great evil has fallen, and has taken the capital with it. Where once there was a kingdom, there is now only the Wildlands. In a lawless fantasy world, you must band together for survival, treasure, or maybe even glory. Players control rival factions, each with a unique deck of cards dictating their abilities across the battlefield. Some focus on ranged prowess, some on raw strength, and others on the bond between characters, offering a wide range of playstyles to explore.
Created by award-winning game designer Martin Wallace, this miniatures board game contains everything you need to dive straight into the dynamic fantasy world of Wildlands. Simple enough to pick up and play, but packed with tactical nuances that will keep you coming back for more, it is the perfect approachable skirmish game with endless replayability.
—description from the publisher
| Ages | 14+ |
|---|---|
| Mechanics | Area Movement, Hand Management, Miniatures, Secret Unit Deployment, Variable Player Powers, Versus |
| Play Time | 30m – 60m |
| Designer | Martin Wallace |
| Publisher | Osprey Games |
| Players | 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Theme | Fighting, Miniatures, Fantasy |
buckbagr
Very quick game even the first game was under an hour. Lots of fun, but light. Not complaining about this at all. Great components and fun for a quick game that will leave you wanting more plays.
Andy Parsons
My one game of Wildlands was two-player. That really isn't the ideal player count as the game makes no effort to scale down its large board for lower numbers. My characters were mostly free to wander the board and were fortunate in setting up closer to the five crystals needed for the win than my opponent's. I won this skirmish game while making not a single attack. That was dull. With a more crowded board, the game would not be so free of incident. However, there is another reason to believe that Wildlands will remain an unexciting experience. The joy of a game like Summoner Wars is the wide variety of different factions and the very different abilities of each character. Wildlands offers three forms of attack - melee, ranged and a magical blatt. None of them has a very dramatic effect, particularly if the defender has a hand of cards with which to counter them. There just isn't very much you can do by way of variations on those three plus movement and hit points to give each faction a distinctive feel, let alone create drama and surprise. The miniatures are quite nicely sculpted, though it would have helped if they had looked more like the illustrations on their character cards. Production quality is good. In harmony with the game itself, the artwork is generic and bland.
cfarrell
So, I usually avoid Martin Wallace games like the plague, but every so often I get roped into one because of reasons. And there is always Hit Z Road at the back of my mind, which I played against my will but turned out to actually be pretty great (if you like that sort of thing) and very unusual for a Wallace game - although at this point I’ve become kind of convinced the Space Cowboys development team should get most of the credit for that one. This sadly is no Hit Z Road; it’s the typical dry, empty, burner-y solely for the sake of being burner-y, doesn’t-really-work Wallace affair. I really am not sure what’s going on with this guy. His games are almost always just so creatively bankrupt, even after 20+ years in the industry, that I’m not sure why he’s still doing it. It pays the bills, but surely there are easier ways? Tinner’s Trail was ok I guess. But in fairness I haven’t played a ton of his recent stuff. AuZtralia looked like it might have been ok.