2012Alessio Cavatore, Rick Priestley
- Videos
- 71
- Creators
- 21
2 - 6 players120 minMedium weight

2023William Burgos, Tamsin Caesar, Alessio Cavatore
Mainly reviews. Dragonbond: Lords of Vaala is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 18 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 1 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 9 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
A game of power based in the universe of Dragonbond. Raid as a dragon or raise armies as a general, destroy your enemies, and cast mighty spells, all to collect power. The player who collects 10 Power tokens, wins. In a world without gods, only you may claim your destiny. During the game, a general and a dragon entering to the same region peacefully, have a chance of becoming Dragonbonded to unlock a unique ability that interacts with each other, and playing as a team for the rest of the game. In the planning phase players secretly play action cards in a face-down pile to program their actions across the board until one player passes; in the resolution phase, actions are resolved in order. Through these actions, players move to different regions, attack, collect power or cast spells by spending the Power collected. Combat has a wargame feel into it due to the dice-based resolution with critical hits, counterattacks and retreats. If Power is scarce on the board, you can steal a Power token from another player entering into combat and dealing more hits than they can take. Dragons and generals play entirely different in strategy and actions. Generals raise armies and customize them in different regions around the board to control them and harvest Power. Dragons can gain Power by devouring units, they also have a health track and must rest and recover if they get wounded too much. All characters in the game have a unique Vaala deck of spells. -description from developer
Dragonbond: Lords of Vaala has 39 videos from 24 creators: 18 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 1 playthrough, 4 unboxings and 9 other videos. They date from 2021 to March 2024.
To learn the rules, start with "Dragonbond: Lords of Vaala - BGG How to Play" by BoardGameGeek, which runs 15 min. For a quicker teach, "Lords of Vaala | BoLS" by Bell of Lost Souls runs 8 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Lords of Vaala - Review" by NinjaGeek Games. 13 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Dragonbond: Lords of Vaala- 5th player expansion - Demo play with Riverhorse games!" by Draco Studios.
If you like it, try Worms: The Board Game and Terminator: Dark Fate – The Card Game, also by Tamsin Caesar, or Bolt Action and Mordheim: City of the Damned, also by Alessio Cavatore. It appears in convention videos from GAMA Expo 2023.
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2012Alessio Cavatore, Rick Priestley
2 - 6 players120 minMedium weight
2024Tamsin Caesar, Matt Gilbert
2 - 6 players45 minMedium weight
1999Alessio Cavatore, Tuomas Pirinen, Rick Priestley
2 - 6 players60 minHeavy weight
2020Tamsin Caesar
1 - 4 players30 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
A game of power based in the universe of Dragonbond. Raid as a dragon or raise armies as a general, destroy your enemies, and cast mighty spells, all to collect power. The player who collects 10 Power tokens, wins. In a world without gods, only you may claim your destiny. During the game, a general and a dragon entering to the same region peacefully, have a chance of becoming Dragonbonded to unlock a unique ability that interacts with each other, and playing as a team for the rest of the game. In the planning phase players secretly play action cards in a face-down pile to program their actions across the board until one player passes; in the resolution phase, actions are resolved in order. Through these actions, players move to different regions, attack, collect power or cast spells by spending the Power collected. Combat has a wargame feel into it due to the dice-based resolution with critical hits, counterattacks and retreats. If Power is scarce on the board, you can steal a Power token from another player entering into combat and dealing more hits than they can take. Dragons and generals play entirely different in strategy and actions. Generals raise armies and customize them in different regions around the board to control them and harvest Power. Dragons can gain Power by devouring units, they also have a health track and must rest and recover if they get wounded too much. All characters in the game have a unique Vaala deck of spells. -description from developer
Designers
William Burgos, Tamsin Caesar, Alessio Cavatore
Artists
Irene Aretia, Tom Babbey, Aldo Domínguez (Eyari), Steve Prescott, Todd Ulrich, Tyler Walpole, Adam Wesierski
Publisher
Draco Studios
Categories
Mechanics