Stonemaier Games: Expeditions (Base Game) by Jamey Stegmaier | A Competitive Engine Building & Exploration Strategy Board Game Set in an Alternate European History 1920+ | 1-5 Players 90 Mins

- Goal: An expedition led by Dr. Tarkovsky ventures into the taiga to learn about the meteorite and its impact on the land. Itching for adventure, heroes from the war privately fund their own expeditions to Siberia, hoping to find artifacts, overcome challenges, and ultimately achieve glory. - Gameplay: Play cards to gain power, guile, and unique worker abilities; move your mech to mysterious locations and gain cards found among the tiles; use workers, items, meteorites, and quests to enhance your mech; and use power and guile to vanquish corruption. - Straight Forward Actions: Easy to teach and learn with some prior board game knowledge. Get started quickly after watching a short rules video. Many different paths to victory. - Alternate History and World Explorations: Richly developed alternate reality with interesting and beautiful 1920+ artwork done by Jakub Rozalski (Iron Harvest). Game design by Jamey Stegmaier (Viticulture). - For families, solo gamers, and game groups alike: This deck building and worker placement strategy game for 1-5 players has a 60-90 minute playing time with a 10 minute setup time. Great game for couples, solo gamers, 2 players, family, and friends. - High Replayability: There are 5 different mech and characters, each with their own unique abilities, 20 location tiles which vary in placement game to game, and 123 uniquely illustrated and designed cards, all of which create a very replayable game with a lot of variety each playthrough. - Thematically Designed Mechanisms: The mech designs fit the nature of their abilities - Marsh Strider has long legs and can move farther than other mechs, and Odin’s Wrath which looks similar to a Viking ship has an additional exploring bonus.The search for and melding of meteorites give you enhanced benefits that might be explained by the sci-fi nature of the meteorites. Each game, the tiles are placed into a random map allowing you to explore your surroundings in different ways every time, giving you the feeling of following rumors or leads. - Sequel to Scythe: This sequel to Scythe sends players on a new adventure into Siberia, where a massive meteorite crashed near the Tunguska River, awakening ancient corruption. It is not necessary to have played Scythe before playing Expeditions, as this is an entirely new game set in the same world. - Solo Play: Features an Automa to play against in a 1-player game for a fun solitaire experience. The Automa simulates an opponent for you to compete against, while your game as a player remains the same. On the Automa’s turn, flip a card to see what action it takes. - Published by Stonemaier: Stonemaier is a tabletop game publisher based in St. Louis and distributed worldwide. Stonemaier's brands include Viticulture, Euphoria, Between Two Cities, Scythe, Charterstone, My Little Scythe, Between Two Castles, Wingspan, Tapestry, Pendulum, Red Rising, Rolling Realms Collection, Libertalia, Smitten, Expeditions, Apiary, Wyrmspan, Stamp Swap, Finspan, Tokaido, Vantage, and Origin Story.

Product description

Expeditions

Designed by Jamey Stegmaier | Art by Jakub Rozalski

Itching for adventure, heroes privately fund expeditions to Siberia, hoping to find artifacts, overcome challenges, and ultimately achieve glory.

Expeditions is a competitive, card-driven, engine-building game of exploration. Play cards to gain power, guile, and unique worker abilities; move your mech to mysterious locations and gain cards found among the tiles; use workers, items, meteorites, and quests to enhance your mech; and use power and guile to vanquish corruption.

Expeditions is a competitive, card-driven, engine-building game of exploration.

Move your mech 1, 2, or 3 spaces to an empty space. If you move to an unexplored tile, flip that tile and gain the benefits of exploring for the first time.

Gather allows you to receive the benefits of the tile where your mech currently stands.

Play cards from your hand to your active row. You immediately gain the card benefit and may activate the benefit on the bottom of the card as well, if you choose to do so.

You can refresh at any time to move all cards and workers from your active row back to your hand and mech mat.

When a player places their 4th star, this triggers the end game. Everyone gets one more turn, and then scoring begins. You gain points for coins, stars placed, upgraded items, and any corruption tokens.