War Chest

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In addition to tactics (indicated by TACTIC on the Unit Card) some units have special attributes (indicated by ) and/or restrictions (indicated by ).

Choose a coin from your hand and put it facedown into your discard pile (Do not show it to your opponent). Set-up is pretty straight forward. Each player takes six control markers and selects four units. The units can be selected randomly or using the suggested set-ups. Each player then takes all of their chips for their units from the box. Two chips for each unit are added in to the player’s bag along with their faction marker. Gameplay If the matching unit occupies a location controlled by your opponent, return their Control Marker to them and replace it with one of your Control Markers.War Chest is such beautiful game. It’s a heavily abstracted, bag building area control game, a combination that is not seen often, if at all. The production value is amazing with all the units being represented by hefty poker chips. There is a decent amount of variety of units in the box giving the game a lot of replay value. The rulebook also comes with suggested scenarios/units that are inspired by historical battles. Alternatively, the units can be shuffled and dealt to each player for a more random set-up. Deploy - Allows you to place a coin from your hand face-up on the board on a location that you control. You control a location if you have a control marker present on the corresponding space. You have 3 coins available for you to use, a number of coins in your draw bag (in your profile area) and a number of coins in reserve (to the left of your hand) ready to go into your draw bag The tactics on the units are varied and interesting, and can really turn the tide of the game. Players need to be aware of what their opponent’s units can do to ensure they don’t move their own units in to an unfavourable position. This is, again, something that more experienced players might perform better at than new players but all the units have clear to understand tactic cards that can be referenced so shouldn’t a major problem.

If you choose to place the coin on the board this can either be on an empty space with either one of your control markers, or on a space where the same unit is present to bolster it (i.e. make it more difficult to get rid of) The game continues until one player or one team has placed all of their Control Markers on locations. Locations are a special kind of hex, indicated on the board with green knotwork symbols.Each player has a set of coins representing different units, which will be different for each player; each unit behave differently from the others.

To complement the core game, The War Chest – a set of 40 high quality miniatures of the infantry, artillery and mechs in the game. Collectively all actions that involve discarding a coin face-up are known as maneuvers. Maneuvers are at the heart of the game. Maneuvering your units correctly and at the correct time is one of the critical aspects of game play. Move War Chest is an all-new bag-building war game! At the start of the game, raise your banner call (drafting) several various units into your army, which you then use to capture key points on the board. To succeed in War Chest, you must successfully manage not only your armies on the battlefield, but those that are waiting to be deployed. The queen sat down with her child the next day, and together they opened the book. They found that the insides had been carved out and filled with more coins for their game, as well as some letters and wax seals. They took their chest from the shelf, opened it, and began to play… You may discard any coin facedown into your discard pile and pass. If you pass, you are not required to pass with subsequent coins. You may use any remaining coins as normal.To succeed in War Chest, you must successfully manage not only your armies on the battlefield, but those that are waiting to be deployed.

Control a location that you occupy by discarding a coin that matches the a unit on the board on a control space. If the space contains an opponent's control marker, this is returned to the player.Deploy– Allows you to place a coin from your hand face-up on the board on a location that you control. You control a location if you have a control marker present on the corresponding space. The chivalric system was a huge part of medieval warfare. Various offices of state were handed out to the highborn of the land, from Bannermen that surrounded kings and queens, to Earls and Heralds enacting their liege’s will across the realm. Bishoprics had much land and influence associated with them, and were sought after position for nobles. War Chest is such beautiful game. It's a heavily abstracted, bag building area control game, a combination that is not seen often, if at all. The production value is amazing with all the units being represented by hefty poker chips. There is a decent amount of variety of units in the box giving the game a lot of replay value. The rulebook also comes with suggested scenarios/units that are inspired by historical battles. Alternatively, the units can be shuffled and dealt to each player for a more random set-up. Set-up is pretty straight forward. Each player takes six control markers and selects four units. The units can be selected randomly or using the suggested set-ups. Each player then takes all of their chips for their units from the box. Two chips for each unit are added in to the player's bag along with their faction marker. Gameplay The Royal Coin does not have a matching unit. It can only be used to perform facedown actions (or the tactic on the Royal Guard unit).