Inside Up Games | Earth | Board Game | Ages 13+ | 1-5 Players | 45-90 Minutes Playing Time

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Each Judge has a specific skill. These are illustrated on the card and include survival and diplomacy. Some encounter cards will provide you with knowledge in one of these areas. These cards are then stored in the team area. When knowledge of a particular type is required you can either spend one of the collected encounters, if you have any, or lose one health from the appropriate judge or two health from a different judge. Another new skill is the PSI skill of Judge Anderson. PSI allows you to add encounter cards to the row, the way you do depends on the game mode you are playing. Final Thoughts on Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Draw the first three and place the judge meeple on the first card and give the Perps a head start by placing the meeple on the third location. Take the judge cards and place five health tokens on each and place four ammo tokens and three rations that the team will share. Decide who the first player is and chief judge, set the time marker to dawn and you are ready. The App is very good, provides a ready opponent day or night and takes most of the effort out of book-keeping. Most importantly, it provides an unfolding story as the landscape is revealed around you as you take your hesitant steps forward. Then as you Explore you reveal locations to Search and NPCs to Interact with. Further, what may not be immediately apparent, is if you replay a scenario it will provide a different landscape. This also applies if you buy any of the boxed expansions, either just figures or the two full sized sets Shadowed Paths and Spreading War the app will add new figures, tiles and terrain features into the existing campaigns. The key events in a scenario will still be present but locations, enemies, items and NPCs wil be re-arranged. This dramatically improves replayability. The Board Is Set, The Pieces Are Moving. We Come To It At Last, The Great Battle Of Our Time The component quality in Journeys in Middle Earth: Spreading War Expansion is very good. The game features high-quality materials, including detailed miniatures, cards, and game pieces. The game’s components are sturdy and well-crafted, making the game durable and long-lasting. Conclusion Planting – this action allows you to place flora on your island for their soil cost, after this you take four cards, keep one and compost three

The app is beautifully designed, with every little aspect being thought of. The theme runs throughout, with atmospheric music being used to provide theme to the actual game itself, while the UI and use of the app was easy and pleasant to get along with. I would go as far to say that this app smashes the Mansions of Madness (MoM) app out the water. The MoM app is good, but this takes all the bad bits and spits them out, leaving a superb app and one that most will get on fairly easily with. Pillars follows the same structure each round. Players start by paying for and drafting cards. Craftsfolk cost coins, and they tend to convert goods into points or coins. Meanwhile, you pay for materials themselves using a pool of workers. After that, your three Master Builders get placed in a bag and get drawn blind, one at a time. If your Builder gets pulled out, you can place it on a vacant action spot in traditional worker placement fashion. Veteran players of MoM will sympathise with me when I mention the continuous chore of organising the minis and the bases provided by the game. Unfortunately, for whatever reason still unknown to this day, it is an ongoing struggle to keep the minis served in their bases, so much so, many resort to gluing the minis in. It appears FFG have finally fixed this by providing minis that have the bases moulded to the figure, meaning gone are the days of fiddling abut trying to get a little spur of plastic into an obnoxiously small hole on a base! In my eyes, this is a massive win, so thought it noteworthy for this review. Final Thoughts – Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth is a step up from The Lost Expedition, building on a great co-operative survival game but adding a couple of additional options and mechanics that increase the difficulty and fits the theme. The artwork and card size make this a great looking game on the table and is a steal at this price.Play continues until either the Perps get to the Max Normal location, all your judges die, in-which case you lose, or your judge meeple moves onto the final card and the judges win, finding Max Normal before the Perps.

The core game box itself is good enough and will give many sessions of gameplay, and as I have said it’s easy enough to create your own scenarios. But the game does also have a nice selection of expansions, all of which add to the original game and give you more in-depth gameplay. I didn’t think the game needed anything extra until I got the Zombies with Grave Weapons Expansion and started controlling zombies with machetes or wrapped in barbed wire. Extra add-on rules for sewage tunnels, boarding up windows to keep the zombies out (for a while), special items cards, new heroes, and a whole new town/game board. Phase II is the headline event: worker placement. Everyone puts their three Master Builder pawns into a draw-bag. The first player reveals a pawn. The owner of this Master Builder places this pawn wherever they want. These locations gain you resources, extra Craftsmen, getting cosy with King Stephen, and more. That takes me onto the artwork of the game. IT. IS. BEAUTIFUL! You can guarantee that being an FFG game that the artwork will at least be of a pleasant standard, but this game blows me away. The artwork found across the cards, the tiles and on other elements of the game is simply stunning. So much work has gone into this game to give players a little bit of eye-candy and the artists certainly haven’t disappointed in that department. The Miniatures

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Answer questions correctly to receive cards and move around the board. The player in first place after 8 rounds wins! These really were minor things for me and didn’t take away from the very satisfying feeling of completing my island and fully growing lots of little trees. Since there are soooo many cards, there are lots of different combinations of flora and fauna to explore and the replayability is great. The components are fantastic too, the player boards look great, the card art is vibrant and attractive and I’m obsessed with the tree stumps and canopies (if you couldn’t tell). An all-around beautiful production. Earth is already an excellent game and the solo mode is a great addition to it all. The game’s player interaction is excellent without being dominating. Players must work together to achieve their goals, making communication and teamwork essential. Specifically, the sharing of inspiration – some characters generate it passively, others from actions. The temptation is to hold on to any earned for the next round but one of the keys to success is knowing when to distribute inspiration to others in your fellowship! However, there are some characters who work better alone some of the time! The game also features combat and skill challenges that require players to work together to overcome obstacles and defeat enemies as these tests utilise each characters own stats. Some are better at strength or agility tests for example and it’s often essential to predict what a particular interaction is going to test you on. Component Quality The crux of a round in Pillars is getting materials to maximise output from your Craftsmen. You can’t hoard more than five resources at the end of a round. Your decisions now have a lasting impact on later rounds, none more so than your finances. Money, it would seem, truly is the root of all evil…