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XCOM: The Board Game – Evolution
Expansion of: XCOM: The Board GameXCOM: Evolution is an expansion for XCOM: The Board Game that complicates your war effort with new missions, enemies, and invasion plans, as well as mechanics that make your struggles more dangerous than ever.
90m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 14+
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Hello, Commander. The war continues – at great cost. We now believe another force is at work against us. If not dealt with swiftly, it could destroy us…
XCOM: Evolution is an expansion for XCOM: The Board Game that complicates your war effort with new missions, enemies, and invasion plans, as well as mechanics that make your struggles more dangerous than ever. As the alien forces spread and peril increases, the sinister humans of the EXALT seek to take advantage of the chaos to infiltrate and destroy XCOM from within. Their treachery leads to new challenges, and you’ll face new crises, you’ll find your work subverted, and you’ll have to deal with new threats to the very resources you need to win the war.
Fortunately, your team has also made some advances since the war began. The discovery of the mysterious alien substance known as Meld promises to unlock some astonishing breakthroughs in the field of biomechanics. And XCOM: Evolution allows you to pursue some of these advances, potentially bringing formidable new weaponry to the field in the form of MEC Troopers!
| Ages | 14+ |
|---|---|
| Designer | Mark Larson, Samuel Bailey |
| Mechanics | Cooperative Play, Dice Rolling, Hand Management, Press your Luck, Variable Player Powers |
| Play Time | 90m |
| Players | Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players |
| Publisher | Fantasy Flight Games, Galakta, Giochi Uniti, Heidelberger Spieleverlag |
| Theme | Electronic, Expansion for Base-game, Real-time, Video Game Theme, Sci-fi |
Misfiring
Ramps up the difficulty considerably. If you are not yet fully familiar with the base game, you may want to hold off until you do. You should at least be able to beat "Normal" difficulty 90% of the time, and "Hard" difficulty 50% of the time. For veterans, a must have.
Sweetman_uk
Huge increase in difficulty. Now cards can be taken out of the game when the base is damaged and EXALT changes the D8 alien die to a D6. Adds MEC Troopers which makes you think it's a nice trade off but most of the difficulty comes from damage control. If you enjoy the base game I can't recommend it enough.
esac1122
The base X-com board game is hampered by certain roles not having enough to do. After a few playthroughs, the scientist/commander players would usually be pretty bored. The scientist doesn't get to interact with the board state or even the other players outside of funding and giving out techs. The commander has very little to do outside of maintain a steady level of funding. Evolution fixes these problems. The scientist can now directly influence the squad leaders chance of success and has more techs that bolster his own gameplay. The inclusion of the EXALT means the commander now has multiple problems to focus on at the same time. The commander has to make multiple trade-offs; does he spend extra funding to get more soldiers on the field and use his new agent card to kill the EXALT foe hampering the mission, or does he remove the EXALT token in orbit and save funds to afford incoming base damage? Evolution gives a new toy, the MEC, to the squad leader which drastically changes the way the combat game can be played. Only the central officer gets gimped by Evolution (but to be frank, the central officer is usually the only role truly starved for time) outside of some techs from the scientist. Excellent expansion that I highly recommend. Evolution is to the X-com board game as Enemy Within is to Enemy Unknown.