Turns in High Command are broken up into three steps: Capture, Orders, and Battle. The Location deck contains, well, Location cards, representing various regional territories to be captured for effects and / or victory points. The top of the Winds of War deck is revealed each round setting that round’s conditions, with games of High Command lasting between 11 and 15 rounds. The game contains two additional decks: Winds of War and Location. The first player is either determined randomly or is the one who scored the fewest VP in the last session of High Command. Every player begins with six cards. Next to those, players place their decks. The top four cards of each are revealed, referred to as the Reserves, marking that player’s card pool. These detachments are combined together to form individual Reinforcement decks. For each Warcaster, players selects a corresponding detachment set of one of its two listed colors. Each faction contains five epic leaders, called Warcasters, a set of twelve starting resource cards, and six sets of color-coded card stacks representing available army detachments. Players select three Warcasters of their faction to use.Įach Warcaster is printed with a pair of colored bars. To begin, each player chooses of one of four factions in the game: Cygnar, Khador, the Protectorate, or Cryx.
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Namely, players are presented with a series of decisions they must make prior during the setup portion of the game that determines their available card pools.
Players lead and mobilize different factions, bringing to bear their respective warriors and powerful mechanical constructs down upon one another in a brutal quest to control the Iron Kingdoms.Īlthough principally similar to other Deckbuilders, the setup and play of High Command is slightly different. It’s only fitting that players find themselves thrust headlong into the fray.
On the war-torn continent of Immoren, conflict is everywhere. The remainder of the message was never delivered. Caspian, sir, ” the young man finally asked, attempting to break the long pause, “what does it mean?” Sending Rangers of the 2nd Army, 4th Division for further assessment. Badly wounded, but concurs report: Scharde moves. 3 Sentinels and a platoon of Storm Guards caught unawares. Caspian looked down at the hastily scribbled parchment once more, as if staring at the message one more time would reveal an overlooked clue someone hadn’t noticed yet: Only that part of the message was intact before the cables cut out entirely, sir.” He dropped into silence. “Are you sure that was all that was reported?” Lieutenant Caspian turned and looked at the nervous and exhausted runner as he finished his question, but a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach was proof already knew the answer.
Both games are mechanically identical and interchangeable, but their reviews were separated for flavor and future reference purposes. You can see a parallel review with references to the Hordes factions on its own review page. Note: This review pertains to the Warmachine factions of the High Command card game.
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