During Grounds, the Invader resolves effects for activated Marshes and Graveyards. During Activations, the Invader may trigger any tiles. The Defender receives Hourglasses for each Mana spent. During Casting Spells, the Invader may Cast or skip each spell from the Spell Tome in order from left to right, paying the cost of each used, and turning each card used to indicate it has been cast. The Preparations Phase consists of 4 Steps: Casting Spells, Activations, Grounds, and Maneuvers. During Defender’s Time, the Defender spends all gained Hourglasses. During Council’s Deliberations (only used if playing with the Highest Power expansion), the Defender rolls the Councilman’s die and gains the number of Council Markers shown, and then must choose to allocate them between the six Council cards in front of them.
If the Necromancer’s Library is activated, the Defender gains 1 Hourglass. During Necromancer’s Library, the Invader decides which Spell Tome cards to remove from the game, replacing them with cards from the Necromancer’s Library, and may then exchange cards between the two. During Altar of Death, the Invader may spend any number of Units for Mana, gaining 1 for every 2 spent.
During Mana Cards, the Invader may choose to draw a single card from the Mana deck Mana cards provide 1-3 Mana, but may also give the Defender additional Hourglasses.
The Defender gains 2 Hourglasses, plus 1 for every Mana the Invader must spend but chooses not to.
They may choose to spend some, all, or none of the Mana. During Gather Resources, the Invader gains (or in later rounds, spends) the number of Mana Crystals shown beneath the Round Marker. The Supplies Phase consists of 6 Steps: Gather Resources, Mana Cards, Altar of Death, Necromancer’s Library, Councils’ Deliberations, and Defender’s Time. Rounds are comprised of 4 Phases: Supplies, Preparations, Assault, and Cleanup. Breaching the Stronghold means the Invader kills all of the Defender’s units on a wall section and can still deal further damage.
If the Invader Breaches the Stronghold before the end of the 8th Round, the Invader wins. If the Defender can hold back the invading forces until the end of the 8th Round, the Defender wins. How It Works: Stronghold: Undead is played over a maximum of 8 Rounds. What It’s About: A second edition of Stronghold’s Undead expansion as a standalone game, Stronghold: Undead is an epic battle of tower defense between two players. In fact, pledges currently total more than 3x the initial funding goal with 3 days to go on the campaign. Genre/Mechanisms: 2 players, action points, area majority/influence, fighting, point to point movement, tower defense, variable player powersįunding Status: At the time of this posting, Stronghold: Undead is already fully-funded. Publisher: Portal Games (51st State: Master Set, Aeon’s End, Aeon’s End: War Eternal, Among the Stars, Architects of the West Kingdom, The Big Book of Madness, Blood Rage, Cry Havoc, Decrypto, Detective: A Modern Board Game, Diamant, Downforce, Ethnos, Ex Libris, For Sale, FUSE, Gizmos, The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire, Heroes of Normandie, Imperial Settlers, Inis, Istanbul, Istanbul: The Dice Game, Kanagawa, Legacy: The Testament of Duke de Crecy, Neuroshima Hex! 3.0, The Others, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Photosynthesis, Pret-a-Porter, The Resistance, The Resistance: Avalon, Rising Sun, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Roll for the Galaxy, Root, Sentient, Stronghold, Stronghold 2nd Edition, Tajemnicze Domostwo, Tales & Games: The Hare & the Tortoise, Teotihuacan: City of Gods, Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization, Tides of Time, Underwater Cities, Welcome to the Dungeon, World’s Fair 1893, Zombicide: Black Plague, Zombicide: Green Horde) Designer: Ignacy Trzewiczek (51st State: Master Set, Detective: A Modern Board Game, Imperial Settlers, Pret-a-Porter, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Stronghold, Stronghold 2nd Edition)Īrtist: Tomasz Jedruszek (Battles of Westeros, Britannia, Citadels, Condottiere, Dominion, Dominion Second Edition, Dominion: Intrigue, Fields of Green, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game Second Edition, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, Imperial Settlers, Magic: The Gathering, Middle-Earth Quest, Neuroshima Hex! 3.0, Pret-a-Porter, Shadows of Brimstone: City of the Ancients, Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death, Stronghold, Stronghold 2nd Edition, Tides of Time)