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This War of Mine: the board game

BGG Rank: 207

Players: 1 - 6, Recommended: 6+, Best: 6+

Playing Time: 120 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.33 / 5

Mechanisms: Action Points, Cooperative Game, Dice Rolling, Events, Grid Movement, Narrative Choice / Paragraph, Push Your Luck, Role Playing, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Simulation, Solo / Solitaire Game, Storytelling, Variable Player Powers, Worker Placement

Category: Adventure, Exploration, Mature / Adult, Modern Warfare, Video Game Theme

Family: Components: Miniatures, Crowdfunding: Kickstarter, Game: This War of Mine (Awaken Realms), Mechanism: Campaign Games, Players: Games with Solitaire Rules, Theme: Survival

Designer: Michał Oracz, Jakub Wiśniewski

Artist: Piotr Gacek, Maszrum, Paweł Niziołek, Michał Oracz, Jakub Wiśniewski

Publisher: Awaken Realms, 11 bit studios, Albi, Ares Games, asmodee, CrowD Games, Edge Entertainment, Elznir Games, Galakta, Galápagos Jogos, MYBG Co., Ltd., Pendragon Game Studio, Summon Games, Ігромаг

Category: Storytelling

This War Of Mine: The Board Game is the tabletop adaptation of the award-winning video game that pictures the drama of civilians trapped in a war-torn city. You will enter this experience as a group of civilians trapped in a besieged and conflict-ridden city, enduring many hardships that often test the essence of humanity. During your struggle as the survivors, you will experience dramas connected with making extremely difficult decisions and choices and have to face the consequences of your actions sooner or later. TWOM: The Board Game features a multiplayer experience for up to 6 players, as well as a solo variant. You will be able to personify one of the well-known characters from video game and face hundreds of new challenges and difficult choices. The boardgame significantly broadens the original game’s universe and emphasizes the depth of plot, yet its main focus will be on human interactions driven by survival instinct and group decision-making. TWOM: The Board Game is an instant play game, with no need for reading the manual before starting the adventure. During day time you will take shelter in a ruined tenement house, which you will care about and manage by: removing rubble, searching through various rooms (often behind barricaded doors), you will build beds, improvised workshops, stoves, tools, water filters, small animal traps, you will cultivate an improvised vegetable garden, fix the tenements’ shelled facilities, reinforce the security of your shelter and should winter come, you’ll try to keep it warm. Upon nightfall your main duties will consist of guarding your shelter and what little possessions you can accumulate against bandits and raiders. Those in your group fit for such a task will use the cover of the night to carefully explore dozens of the ever-changing locations scattered throughout the dangerous city in search of all the things that a person needs to survive (materials, food, meds, equipment, etc.). On your way you will meet tens of characters, each with a unique story (residents of the locations you visit, thieves, bandits, soldiers, war victims, refugees, neighbors, traders and members of local communities), each encounter is a potential, unique adventure. To guide you through all these events you will have the special SCRIPTS mechanism, responsible for implementing the deep and complex story and a coherent plot (each game will be unique and different than the previous). Your goal is to survive until the cessation of war hostilities. However, survival itself will often prove not to be enough. The price each of you will decide to pay, might be too high in the final outcome. So the goal is really to survive in a way that will let you live on with the decisions you made. The EPILOGUES mechanism will kick in here.

Average Playing Time	2-4 hours
Best Player Count	Solo Best
Collection	Kevin
Difficulty	Standard
Played	Played
Recommended Player Count	Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players

Players: 1 - 6, Recommended: 3, Best: 4

Playing Time: 120 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.36 / 5

It seems this horrible siege is a natural way of life for us now. With no help coming from outside Pogoren, we focus solely on everyday survival. Often in this struggle we forget we are not the most vulnerable. We forget there are the young ones who have lost their mothers and fathers, and it is up to us to give them a chance for future. Any future. The question is – how much will it cost us? As time passes, old grudges and grievances resurface among city inhabitants. There are people ready to play on such hatred that can be found only among long-time neighbors. Grazni soldiers are more numerous these days, while rumors about Vyseni freedom fighters infiltrating the city can be heard on the streets almost every day. With Pogoren’s resources already stretched so deadly thin, shall we survive another outbreak of hostilities? Days of the Siege is the second expansion for This War of Mine: The Board Game, a story-rich game of survival in a war-torn city. Inside the box you will find: Forlorn Hope, a story-driven, 3-act War Campaign featuring: over 750 new scripts; a new board with the Map of Pogoren; a set of completely new rules; over 50 new tokens. Choose your strategy and make dramatic choices affecting the future of the city; learn new rules and face challenges of survival, with your group caught in between Vyseni rebels and Grazni soldiers New cards featuring unique content for the War Campaign, as well as new Locations that can be added to the base Location deck to give you more Scavenging options in every playthrough Orphans of War module with 2 miniatures, Kid Action cards and Fittings to offer you a unique perspective on the well-being of children in a war-torn city 4 Soldier miniatures to use during the War Campaign Dog miniature and card so that you may add an animal companion to your group or use the components with dedicated scripts Days of the Siege will give you a unique opportunity to experience a truly epic narrative and choose you role in events that are about to change the fate of Pogoren forever. Winds of war are blowing your way. Will you weather them? —description from the publisher

Players: 1 - 6, Recommended: 4, Best: 6

Playing Time: 120 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 3.41 / 5

War knows no end. Its victims are counted in thousands and each day we lose hope, little by little. Food is becoming scarce and our shelter is falling apart — yet we keep struggling. New faces can be seen around the city: the friendly ones at the makeshift market or in neighboring houses, the hostile ones in the night with blinding flashlights and clubs and knives. We seek new paths to travel through the ruins — sometimes even underground — just to avoid sniper fire and loot anything of value. It's never much, yet we keep struggling. We have no other choice. Tales from the Ruined City is the first expansion for This War of Mine: The Board Game, a story-rich game of survival in a war-torn city. The expansion introduces a range of game modules to enrich the base game: - Emira is the 13th Character complete with a personal background; you may introduce her in any playthrough - Desperate Measures cards empower you whenever you lose anyone from your group - Farmers module features the Market, where your choices affect the way people perceive you; it also gives you a chance to interact with people from outside the city - Sewers are full of unknown dangers and thrilling narrative, providing you with options for additional Scavenging runs - Five Scenarios offer many hours of thrilling gameplay; each features unique rules and components and winning one of them gives you access to a reward envelope with special legacy content Face atrocities of war and prove that from horrible desperation comes great courage. —description from the publisher