Widlands - The great Darkness has fallen, and the Empire with it.

Got us a new favourite boardgame at home, Wildlands by Osprey games was indeed a little gem, not so little as the game box was quite heavy.

First some basic facts

Wildlands
Designer: Martin Wallace
Publication Date: 18 Oct 2018
Players: 2-4
Ages: 14+
Playing Time: 30-60 minutes
Contents: 20 Unique Miniatures, 20 Character Cards, 120 Action Cards, 42 Battlefield Cards, Double-Sided Playing Board, Counters & Tokens

The basic concept of the game are that each player have a group of 5 adventurers that are on a mission to find "The arcane crystals". Each  group have 5 crystals in their own special colour randomly placed on the gaming table that they need to collect to win the game, you can also gain victory by taking out minis from the other players groups, so in total you need to reach 5 crystals or eliminated enemies to win.

Each of the different adventure groups have their own pros and cons that is illustrated by the thier unique Action Cards, 40 for each group. To learn to use these action cards in on the right mini at the right time are essential to master the game and also give the diferent gangs their own flavoure and chalanges.

The game mecanism are easy to learn, even if i had to rerad the rules twice to understand it all, thought they was writen in a complicated way, but probably me not used to boardgame rules writen in english, but when we had our first game it was no problem, not even for David that is 9 to understand the game and really enjoy playing it.

When I write this we have played about 6 or 7 games trying out 3 of the adventure gangs so far, we have had really fun and easy going gaming session. The game component in general are of good quality and the lastic minis included look wery good, at first I considered painting them, but I really like the black ink style of them.

It seems like Osprey will support the game with additional expanssions, at least 2 new adventure groups and a new doublesided gaming board have already been announced.

The cost of the game are £60 which was quite much to me but considering the quality of the minis and component and that we liked the game very much I now consider it well spent money.

Osprey have a 10% disscount on the Wildland box at the moment.