3/2/2023 0 Comments Green screen snake strike![]() ![]() If that puts you off, there’s a special starter set, a separate box, that serves as a gentler introduction. As the system has accrued detail over the years, it’s become more complex and now has quite a steep learning curve. But it also has a couple of minor problems. ![]() There are a couple of new card keywords, most interestingly 'domain' cards which affect the whole board until they’re replaced by another 'domain'. Nethermaze doesn’t add much apart from the new boards, figures and cards it contains. But it’s important to emphasise that you don’t need to: you can have a great time with the included cards and pre-built decks, using Nethermaze purely as a straightforward board game for 2 players. If you buy in, you’ll soon have a huge collection of cards to build with. There are some additional cards included in the box that you can do this with, but the real pleasure here is from the wider Underworlds series which features many expansion warbands and other core sets. ![]() Those more interested by long-term strategy can ditch the pre-built “rivals” decks that come with the game and build their own. So you’ll need to spend model activations just as much on achieving objectives as on taking out the enemy. Players draw up at the end of the three, brief turns, so it’s critical you play as many cards as possible to avoid wastage. The latter sometimes have nothing to do with even fighting, let alone winning, but can score you points for taking particular hexes or infiltrating onto the enemy board. You also need to set up situations that let you make the most of power cards or score objective cards. Winning individual fights is only half the battle. You can have a great time with the included cards and pre-built decksĪt the same time, you’ll need to watch your cards closely. So it’s all about jockying for position, trying to get in sudden, card-supported strikes, and ganging up where possible. Worse, another figure might get moved up in support, swinging the odds of each dice roll in their favour. But if you do, that’s essentially the end of that figure’s turn and if their target survives - which is likely on an initial attack - they can strike back repeatedly. Often you’ll want to charge in order to get stuck in to the enemy as quickly as possible. The action and support system intertwine to make manoeuvre on the board full of difficult choices. There is a lot of randomness which may put off more considered players, but even if one side has an absurd run of luck and wipes the other off the board, the half-hour play time makes it easy to re-rack and go again. It’s kept going this long because it is very good indeed, a gleeful mixture of strategy, tactics, and luck packed into a taut setup where mistakes or bad dice rolls can swing things back and forth with astonishing speed. Nethermaze is the latest box in what is now quite a mature series the first set, Shadespire, was released back in 2017. ![]()
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