Wildlands: The Unquiet Dead
Expansion of: WildlandsAcross the Wildlands the word is spreading – the dead are rising, swords in hand. Drawn to the life-giving power of the crystal shards, a gang of undead nightmares have taken to the battlefield.
30m - 60m
2 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
bigmac33070
The first expansion for Wildlands, which adds a new faction, the Undead. I liked this, but not as much as the factions from the base game. The Undead have great advantages (6 of them, only 2 symbols) but a HUGE disadvantage (needing 4 cards to claim a shard). This essentially makes them have to use combat to try to win and since they all have 3 health, they are kind of squishy. Also, their cards have much fewer symbols on them and many of the cards have neither of the 2 symbols needed to claim a shard. There is also the scenario included, which allows a player to add an Undead to the board when their character is killed. The figure can move and fight (using eliminated characters symbols), but cannot pick up shards. I didn't try this, but it sounds kind of meh. So, fun but not necessary. Also, they only included 1 extra base. So, if you want to play the Unquiet Dead, you have to use green. That kind of sucks.
Shady Bits
Received today. Cut the molded plastic down and got it all to fit under the existing Wildlands insert; so it all fits in one box! I did not want another box for this game. Hope the upcoming board will go in also...
PolarDad
First attempt at using was a disaster...although it may not be the fault of the expansion. Probably more due to poor luck of crystal placement and possibly poor strategy on my part. Requiring 4 cards to pick up a crystal instead of the usual 3 is tough though. I'm not giving up after only one attempt though...even though I still prefer playing with Gnomads.