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Warcraft: The Board Game box art
2003 Ranked #4,208

Warcraft: The Board Game

This fantasy strategy game brings the computer classic to the tabletop. Factions battle across a world of warcraft and conquest.

Thematic Games City Building Fantasy Modular Board Variable Player Powers

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.76/5

Rating

6.12

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

The computer classic comes to your table.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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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.

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All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
120 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Kevin Wilson

Artists

4
John Goodenough Scott Nicely Brian Schomburg Kevin Wilson

Publishers

2
Blizzard Entertainment Fantasy Flight Games

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