The Great Wall: Ancient Beasts

Product Description The Great Wall: Ancient Beasts

12 new advisors
Four of the new Advisors are based on mythical beasts and come with meeples/miniatures depicting these fantastic creatures. Players who purchase one can place the miniature in a special spot on the board to gain new, powerful benefits. Its placement is crucial, so you'll need to plan carefully!

With Qilin, a symbol of prosperity, you can collect extra wood, gold, stones, or Meditation at a chosen location. Qilin is like an extraordinary servant – it doesn't require an empty space, and if it's removed from the board, you can replace it with a regular servant for free.

Yinglong, a mighty winged dragon, will inspire your soldiers. Place Yinglong on a chosen wall section and you can immediately assemble your troops there. Soldiers under Yinglong's presence fight with great zeal and count as two when earning honor for defeated hordes!

Spirit Turtle, a sacred turtle animal, blesses your army with resilience and reduces your losses on one of the Wall Sections. How? Your soldiers won't die here!

Finally, Fenghuang, a blessed bird, is a symbol of virtue. Trade all your Overseers for Fenghuang and place him in a chosen Location. He acts as a triple Overseer of the maximum level in that Location. Furthermore, your former Overseers will return to your inventory, allowing you to recruit them again in the Barracks!

The other 8 Advisors are similar to the Advisors from the base game, but when it comes to the core mechanics, the more the better – more choice and more replayability (but the base game offers a lot of options).
Here are some examples:
Let your cavalry move freely between walls!

Gain more precious honor as a leader!
Take 1 Artifact and make it your own!
Ignore the Honor penalty if you activate Location yourself!

8 new tactical cards
2 new types of Tactical cards (4 copies of each) will change your strategy.

These are your new options during battle:
Hold the line! – Cooperation is rewarded: all players defending the wall get extra credit. But of course, you'll benefit the most 😉
Wipeout – Raise the stakes! If you win, your soldiers get to attack again this turn! If not, they die.
“Game Modes” Old Chronicle
Six new "Ancient Chronicle" game modes bring even more challenges to your gameplay. Figure out how to gain an advantage against other clans using new rules introduced each year.
More themes and backstories, exciting new special rules, buildings, layout changes, and so on.
10 Relics
Players get a new way to score – they can use a new type of card: Relics. Relics are similar to artifacts, but:
You can upgrade them to provide better benefits for everyone (but you also signal to your opponents that you are interested in this Relic),