Warcraft: The Board Game

BGG Rank: 4611

Players: 2 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 4

Playing Time: 120 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.76 / 5

Mechanisms: Dice Rolling, Modular Board, Team-Based Game, Variable Player Powers

Category: City Building, Fantasy, Fighting, Video Game Theme, Wargame

Family: Setting: Warcraft

Designer: Kevin Wilson

Artist: John Goodenough, Scott Nicely, Brian Schomburg, Kevin Wilson

Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment, Fantasy Flight Games, Bard Centrum Gier, Beacon Multimedia S.A., Delta Vision Publishing, Devir, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, KADABRA, Nexus Editrice, PS-Games, Smart Ltd, Ubik

Category: Wargame Tag: World of Warcraft

The computer classic comes to your table. From the publishers: "Fantasy Flight Games and Blizzard Entertainment present the official Warcraft boardgame, where players take command of an army of Night Elves, Humans, Orcs, or Undead seeking to harvest gold and wood, build a strong village, and set out to conquer and destroy! The Warcraft boardgame features an adaptable/expandable geomorphic board, exciting components, and the innovative ‘Command/Movement’ system that simulates the real-time action and excitement of Warcraft." Warcraft is based on the computer game series. Each player takes on one of four factions: Humans, Orcs, Night Elves and Undead. It can be played cooperatively, with humans and night elves in one alliance and orcs and undead in the second. The game is set up with a modular board, depicting resources, victory point locations and the players' town halls. Throughout the game, players need to harvest resources, build units and buildings, and use their army to defeat their opponents. Each turn, players move their existing units, harvest gold and lumber with their workers, deploy units onto the board that were built on a previous turn, and finally spend resources on further units, buildings and outposts. Players also have access to a unique deck of Experience Cards, which are drawn during events like battles and can be used later for special effects. A player can win by eliminating all opponents, or by accumulating 15 total victory points.

Average Playing Time	4-8 hours
Best Player Count	4 Best
Collection	Kevin
Difficulty	Standard
Played	Unplayed
Recommended Player Count	2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players

Players: 2 - 4, Recommended: 4, Best: 4

Playing Time: 90 minutes

Weight (Complexity): 2.88 / 5

Only the Ruthless Survive! Warcraft: The Board Game receives its highly-anticipated expansion! The Warcraft Expansion Set includes a multitude of exciting and flavorful new options for your Warcraft board game experience. * New rules and components for the sixteen Warcraft heroes * Random “creep” encounters * New special race decks * New specialized board tiles * New scenarios * New resource system For countless hours of brutal fantasy fun! The Warcraft Expansion Set requires WarCraft: The Board Game to play. Expands: WarCraft: The Board Game

vlad48 rated: N/A/10

The rules indicate some intriguing mechanics to port this PC classic into a board game. The board pieces look promising. However, the visual disappointment has to be Fantasy Flight's decision to use cookie-cutter wooden pieces for all four armies, instead of using cool-looking and indivualized pieces in the style of Age of Mythology (another PC-based game). This is clearly a cost- and price-saving move (and probably shortened production time) but I would be willing to spend a few extra dollars to have actual orcs and black elves. Zug-Zug.

The_Crested_Ones rated: N/A/10

Game looks pretty cool, too bad about the minis but im sure we'll all get over it quite soon...

ljw74us rated: N/A/10

pirtrom rated: N/A/10

Not played yet , there are always 5 or 6 in our group. 4 player games are very limiting

Baines rated: N/A/10

Only a 2 or 4 player game. There is one 3-player scenario provided, and it only shows how much the game does not work with 3 players.

IntvGene rated: N/A/10

Good, fun game with fairly simple rules. The Elves need to be re-balanced, but enjoyable as a nice, semi-light wargame. Also, strategy tends to be limited as it is usually just a race to secure the resources.

igud rated: N/A/10

Complicated setup. Never played

phoeniix rated: N/A/10

Owned it for 2 years ... yet to play.

Geoff rated: N/A/10

Have played this only once and will delay rating until we've played some more. First impressions - I was pleasantly suprised - light, fun, felt like WarCraft =) Update: I've not had a chance to try this again and lack the motivation to do so. For sale.

Salt-Man Z rated: N/A/10

I still can't give this game a rating, having only played it 3 times or so. It's amazing how little playtesting seemed to go into making this game, what with all the broken rules and the errata, and the fact that the expansion has to "fix" half the game. Still, it's not a bad game. But there's no sense playing this if you can play Nexus Ops.

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