Gale Force Nine Tyrants of The Underdark (Updated Edition) - English

Fun area control plus deck building type game. It comes with a great variety of cards that really appeal to fans of the franchise. Best with 3-4 players. Rules are Intuitive.

My wife and I love deck building games. We got hooked on "Dominion" back in the day. I loved "Risk" as a kid. "Trains" was the closest I've seen to this combination of both deck building and board control, but my wife didn't care for it. She felt something was off with the game mechanics of "Trains". Not so with "Tyrants of the Underdark"! The gameplay is fluid, and easy to understand. The turns are fast, and the game is exciting. For the last year, every morning over coffee, we'd been playing a 3-game series of "Race For The Galaxy" because we love that deck builder so much. But we learned this game in our inaugural playthrough last week, and now we're hooked. Each morning for the last seven days, we've played a complete game of "Tyrants of the Underdark" in about an hour each time, and we love it! This is a second printing of the game, and with it, the publishers have made the game less expensive to own, fit in a smaller box, and included all of the game's separate expansions within this one set! The supply deck is made by combining your choice of 2 out of 6 sets of differently themed half-decks, giving players 30 possible different combinations for a game. If you crave the deluxe experience you could try to track down a copy of the original printing which came with plastic figures for all of the spies and troops, and buy the expansion decks separately, but I feel it unnecessary with this set. The only downside is this set is all cardboard punch out tokens, and the playing cards feel a bit on the cheap side. I imagine if they ever got wet they would be instantly ruined. But in exchange you get a fantastic compete and deep game that is easy to play. You can complete the game with great satisfaction in about an hour with 2 people. I'm sure it's even more fun with 3 or 4. We hope to find out soon with our gaming friends. Perhaps if this game becomes popular enough, they might consider a third printing with better quality linen cards. The punch out tokens are plenty thick and work just fine. I wholeheartedly recommend this game to any nerd board gaming enthusiast. It is just so much fun.

My friends and I have now played two complete games of this with four players, so far we are all in agreement that this is even better than the Castle Ravenloft D&D board game. The gameplay is a combination of deck building with Risk-like site management and an overall point system to determine the winner. The premise is: you take control of a drow household and use your power to place your troops or assasinate your enemy's troops and use influence to recruit new minions (drawn as cards). Different decks have different minions with different abilities and after you get the hang of things it becomes much more strategic in how you build your deck and what actions you take. The only downsides worth mentioning are that it is only playable with up to four people and some of the rules are a bit ambiguous, but anyone with board game/RPG experience should be able to adjust accordingly without much difficulty. Then the card stock and rule book are a little on the cheap/flimsy side, but would only become an issue after heavy use. All-in-all, the games detractors aren't worth dropping the rating a star, it's lots of fun.

Great game! Second edition includes the expansion, so extra gameplay out of the box. Lacks the miniatures the first edition has, but those weren't that exciting, so I prefer the extra content. Cards are a bit flimsy and the insert doesn't fit sleeved cards, so that's an unfortunate combination. I tossed the insert and put the cards in deck boxes. Would have been five stars if the card quality was better.

I do not know about this but my son LOVED it! He loved the quality of the product and said everything was exactly as he wanted. Great!

So much fun and so many ways to achieve victory. Can be a quick game or a long game. The multiple decks that come with the game (and available as add-ons) make a little different each time. I get the feeling this game was very well play tested. The few times we've come across a rules question in game, it's addressed in the rule book clearly and concisely. No going online needed.

Root is one of our family most played board games, and Tyrants of The Underdark took partial of the area control spirit to work with star realm style of resource and power from desk build rule. Our family likes D&D topic, and it takes most D&D adventure pictures from Out of Abyss, Princes of the Apocalypse, and Curse of Shard, which my family got exciting while getting red dragon, death knight (Lord Soth), Demogorgon, and what else strong D&D monster cards, which has nothing related D&D data, but provides better resource, power, and some special card effects. Anyway, it's a fun game, you could select 2 decks from 6 decks to create your market, and it will decide incoming playing focus. The game is similar as star realm to use resource purchasing more cards, and discard those basic one for easier to get better one. Plus root style area control to decide where you setup troops for obtaining more resource from famous underdark cities. While doing that, you could also kill your enemy and natural armies for more VP. Overall, it's a game worth to spend time to play if you like a game including D&D topic, deck build, and area control features to create the most power drow house in the underdark.

At first time, little confused to learn about the rules. But once familiar with some terms of keywords, I found the rule isn't complex. Main goal of this game is to control the sites of the Underdark in many ways. (I think it's not necessary being a tyrant...) Through taking various actions, you'll get VPs by your minions, sites, enemy trophies. Game's pace is pretty fast, so it's very funny.

Super nice pvp cardbuilding boardgame for up to 4 players. Only downside: unlike original version (2016), this re-release comes with cardboard tokens instead of plastic minis

Damaged, missing parts

Un juego con mucha variedad, no hay 2 partidas iguales

Jogo pra quem gosta de war e deckbuild super recomendo. É inglês, se inglês não for problema pra vc , 👍 top.

Highly recommended. Easy to pick up and varied winning strategies.