Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Playing The Outcast Heroes, you will become a commander of a Polish underground military unit and you will fight against Communism. The USSR wants to include Poland in its influence zone, but there are still people who resist and stand up for independence.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Action Points
Spend a limited allowance of points across several possible actions each turn.
Auction/Bidding
Bid against other players to determine who receives an item, action, or priority.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Team-Based Game
Players compete in fixed teams and coordinate toward a shared team result.
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Playing The Outcast Heroes, you will become a commander of a Polish underground military unit and you will fight against Communism. The USSR wants to include Poland in its influence zone, but there are still people who resist and stand up for independence. Will you manage to stop the red plague? The Outcast Heroes presents the story of the so-called Cursed Soldiers, the units that fought against Soviet invaders at the end of World War II and did not lay down their arms even after the War was officially over. The players send their soldiers on missions and must cooperate in order to beat a mission's Difficulty Level (but please note that it's not a truly cooperative game, it just employs some elements of the co-op mechanics, you do not play "against the game"). They earn Glory Points for successful missions as well as for achieving their Secret Goals. In the Secret Goals deck there are also Traitor cards (traitors earn points when missions fail). The game mechanisms also involve an element of bidding (to determinine the first player) and secret Order cards given to the soldiers to enhance their power. The game is divided into three stages and each stage consists of four rounds. Whoever gathers the most points after the third stage wins. Latem 1944 r. Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, czyli nielegalna w?adza wykonawcza w Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej ustanowiona przez Józefa Stalina, przywódce Zwi?zku Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich, wyda? dyrektyw? “O rozwi?zaniu tajnych organizacji wojskowych na terenach wyzwolonych”. Tym samym Polskie Pa?stwo Podziemne, reprezentacja legalnych w?adz Rzeczypospolitej, a w nim najwi?ksze organizacje wojskowe, czyli Armia Krajowa i Narodowe Si?y Zbrojne, zosta?y nara?one na represje ze strony nowo powsta?ej w?adzy komunistycznej, która sukcesywnie przejmowa?a kontrole nad Polsk?. Kilka miesi?cy po og?oszeniu tej dyrektywy gen. Leopold Okulicki, ps. Nied?wiadek, ostatni dowódca Armii Krajowej, wyda? rozkaz o rozwi?zaniu tej organizacji i zwolni? ?o?nierzy z przysi?gi. Inne oddzia?y zbrojne nadal podejmowa?y walk? z radzieckim okupantem. Sta? na czele takiego oddzia?u i walcz o “Woln?, Niepodleg?a, Szcz??liw? Polsk?!” W "Bohaterach Wykl?tych" gracze wciel? si? w dowódców oddzia?ów walcz?cych z nielegaln? w?adz? komunistyczn?. Ich zadaniem b?dzie walka z okupantem poprzez wykonywanie misji skierowanych przeciwko W?adzy Ludowej oraz realizacja tajnych celów. Za swoje dzia?ania gracze otrzymuj? punkty chwa?y - kto zbierze ich najwi?cej, wygrywa gr?.