The game offers 8 different heroes to choose from, and players can choose who they want to play with. Each hero comes with a special ability written on the bottom of the card. Heroes also have a special Critical Hit ability that comes into play whenever the player uses a die with his Critical Hit number showing. The game has been fairly challenging thus far; I’d guesstimate that we’re winning just over half of the games that we play. We have yet to add the trap cards which are in the box for a more difficult game – we’re pretty happy with the challenge in the base rules (whatever that may or may not say about our cooperative playing abilities or our dice-rolling skillz). For twenty to thirty minutes and a small box, there is a lot of game here!

Take on a gauntlet of terrifying monsters either solo or in a group of up to 4 classic fantasy characters, with a set of 7 included polyhedral dice as your weapons! Can you survive long enough to defeat the mighty dragon Kalterstorm?

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Dice Conquest is designed by Stephen Avery and Eugene Bryant, and features illustrations by Mirco Paganessi. It includes a beautiful set of 7 polyhedral dice, but players are also free to swap in their favorite set of dice instead!

It includes 8 Hero cards to try in different combinations as you attempt to survive to the end. Once you do, you can mix in more and more of the included Trap cards for an added challenge!Items currently discounted by other promotions are also not eligible for additional discounts via discount codes. But it’s not always so simple! Many monsters have special requirements, like the Ogre who must be defeated before you can even target other creatures! Or the Gremlin, who can only be defeated with three damage EXACTLY! Dice Conquest is a 2022 Wizkids release, new to many at SPIEL 2022, that puts the players together on a team of Heroes fighting off creatures, trying to get to Kalterstorm the Dragon. If they are able to defeat this boss monster, they win. If any of the Heroes dies at any point on this quest, the whole team loses! The round continues until all the Creatures have been defeated or all the dice have been used or any player chooses to pass on their turn. If there are creatures left, the players take damage from the remaining creatures; total up the damage values on the creatures, and dole them out, one at a time, starting with the current Start Player and going around the table. Now the players can choose to remove any dice from Creatures that are not yet killed; those dice are added to the Spent Dice area. Manchester City against Liverpool is always an exciting fixture and what a game of football we are hopefully going to see with the tactics between the two managers.

Though the number of cards revealed each round never changes, it does seem like the game gets progressively harder as you just know that you’re going to have three new monsters each round – so the group really needs to prioritize getting at least 2 gone each round. Further, you don’t want to keep too many dice on cards between rounds as you lose the ability to roll them at the start of the next round. Oh, yeah, and you take damage for each monster left alive; that’s not good either. As soon as we end the international break everyone is asking when is that game? City v Liverpool, 12:30, that’s the game. The pressure is on both teams now to get a result. Mark J: Cooperative dice drafting/assignment dungeon crawl… worked fine as a solo but would slow way down with more players. Well, when I first got this small box game in the mail, I didn’t think much off it – the Eurogamer in my being slightly turned off by the traditional 7 polyhedral die set prominently displayed in the box window. So, it sat on the shelf for a few weeks waiting its turn to hit the table. I’m a bit sad that I waited for it – as this has proven to be a fun cooperative game. If the total on the dice exceeds the Health value of the creature, it is slain. If there is a Magic Item on the creature card, give it to any hero. (Magic Items are one-time use abilities that can be done at any time). Otherwise, simply discard the slain Creature. The dice on that card are placed in the Spent Dice area.