![]() Portal Mages can easily transport things from one zone to another if there’s enough magic. The special powers, meanwhile, also fill in some extra abilities and cane be mixed and matched with the main race. Every race has certain inherent effects for example, Gnomes can launch aerial assaults of zones once per turn, while Orcs get more victory points for conquering Alliance regions and Night Elves can take Forest regions much more easily. You start by letting both players select a combination of a race and a special power. This world ain’t big enough for the two of you, where “the two of you” means anywhere from two to five players and “this world” means “the collection of islands you pick out from the beginning.” Yes, the irony of the game taking place on islands is not lost upon me, but the point remains that you have your island spaces and your goal is to take as much territory as you can, earning victory points and ultimately seeing who gets the most after a set number of turns. ![]() The principles behind SWoW are very simple. That means any review has to both ask whether or not the game itself works and whether or not the allusions to WoW are actually a net positive. It is, in many ways, a reskinning of the original game Small World with a few extra rules, another variant to help you make the game feel more like WoW, and a lot of different artwork. So here I am with a playtest copy of the game (though a bit later than planned), which by my count is not even the first World of Warcraft board game we’ve gotten.īut SWoW (which will be the acronym used from here on out, because it amuses me) is not really aiming to be a simulation of the MMORPG itself it’s more meant to create the feel of the world of Azeroth. ![]() Seriously, the number of board games I would have expected to review had long sat at a nice round zero, and then Small World of Warcraft was a thing that happened. One of the interesting things about this job is that I am pretty regularly presented with a new set of things to review and try out that I never would have expected before it became a thing. ![]()
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