World of Warcraft to get a new board game

The new board game being produced will be based on the original Small World game, but unlike the other recent releases, the WOW version aptly name Small World of Warcraft will be a standalone, re-skinned version of the game.

More about the board game

The game’s designer is Phillippe Keyaerts. He is a Belgian designer of German-style board games. The first two games he designed are Vinci and Evo, which use the mechanics of allowing the players to spend victory points to improve the characteristics of their play. He is also known for inventing a small space battle game called Space Blast. Phillipe Keyaerts is best known as the designer of Small World, a 2009 fantasy-themed board game based upon a remake of Vinci. In his personal “about” section on the Daysofwonder website he has this to say about his process:

“The creation of a game always comes from the desire to play a game that doesn’t exist. I turn and kick it around in my head for some time, then I draft a first game prototype, which I play test alone by myself. Then I play test the game with friends – I always try to give them a game prototype that works. Then, I tweak, and test, and tweak again and again until I get a great game – it is a long and difficult process. However, in the end, a new game sees the light, and seeing new players enjoying it is always a real pleasure!”

This game will be based in the glorious world of Azeroth from the video game universe.

In the game, two to five players will vie for control of several islands in the hostile world — their only only hope being to pick and choose the right combination of races and special powers.

After you have staked your claim to a piece of land, you need to defeat your neighbours and thereby expand your territory.

If you can manage to occupy the legendary places in the game and gain control of powerful magical artifacts, you will then reach new levels of domination.

However, empires must eventually fall, so you need to be ready to put your over-extended race into decline and then lead a new race to glory so you can eventually rule over all of Azeroth.

Inside the box you will get:

• 6 double-sided game boards
• 16 World of Warcraft races with matching banners and tokens
• 20 special power badges
• 7 legendary places and 5 artifacts
• 10 mountains, 15 murlocs, 9 wisp walls, 4 harmony tokens, 12 bombs, 1 champion, 10 forts, 2 military objectives, 5 beasts and 6 watch towers
• 1 game turn track and 1 game turn marker
• 110 victory coins
• 5 summary sheets
• 1 reinforcement die
• 1 rules booklet
• 1 team variant rules sheet

This exciting new board game will be released soon and will have a price tag of $60 or about R1200.

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