2025Adam Kwapiński
- Videos
- 159
- Creators
- 75
1 - 5 players120 - 180 minHeavy weight

2022Przemysław Fornal, Adam Kwapiński
Mainly reviews. Terracotta Army is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 34 reviews, 8 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, 9 unboxings, and 3 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Emperor Qin Shi Huang has passed away. To protect him in the afterlife, a great army in the form of statues of faithful warriors must be assembled to stand guard in the Emperor's tomb. You will be among those tasked with building this magnificent army. In Terracotta Army, you represent talented craftsmen and artists laboring to build the wondrous assembly of statues. During the game, you collect resources, upgrade your workers, and seek favor with the Emperor's advisors. Your goal is to play a crucial role in the process of creating the terracotta army, and your success is measured in victory points (VPs). During the game, you and your fellow players build the army together, but after the fifth round of the game is over, only one of you - the one with the most points - will stand as the winner. During the game, you place warrior miniatures within the mausoleum, forming groups. A group's miniatures may belong to multiple players as denoted by the player bases on those miniatures. Multiple separate groups consisting of the same type of miniature may exist within the mausoleum. You will have many opportunities to score points based on domination and presence. To achieve domination, you must be the only player with the most of the specific resource or type of statue currently being scored. (If you are the only player, you have domination.) To have presence, you must have at least one of the specific resource or type of statue currently being scored. At the end of the fifth round, the player with the most VPs wins.
Terracotta Army has 57 videos from 49 creators: 34 reviews, 8 how-to-play guides, 3 playthroughs, 9 unboxings and 3 other videos. They date from 2022 to June 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Terracotta Army - Learn While Playing!" by Getting Games, which runs 59 min. For a quicker teach, "Terracotta Army Board Game How to Play" by JestaThaRogue runs 11 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Terracotta Army ~ An Instant (Euro) Classic. A Contender for Game of 2022? | Board Game Review" by ThinkerThemer. 32 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Live play of Terracotta Army" by Board&Dice, one of 3 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Nemesis: Retaliation, Frostpunk: The Board Game, Nemesis and Nemesis: Lockdown, also by Adam Kwapiński. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2022.
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2025Adam Kwapiński
1 - 5 players120 - 180 minHeavy weight
2022Adam Kwapiński
1 - 4 players120 - 150 minVery heavy weight
2018Adam Kwapiński
1 - 5 players90 - 180 minHeavy weight
2022Adam Kwapiński
1 - 5 players90 - 180 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Emperor Qin Shi Huang has passed away. To protect him in the afterlife, a great army in the form of statues of faithful warriors must be assembled to stand guard in the Emperor's tomb. You will be among those tasked with building this magnificent army. In Terracotta Army, you represent talented craftsmen and artists laboring to build the wondrous assembly of statues. During the game, you collect resources, upgrade your workers, and seek favor with the Emperor's advisors. Your goal is to play a crucial role in the process of creating the terracotta army, and your success is measured in victory points (VPs). During the game, you and your fellow players build the army together, but after the fifth round of the game is over, only one of you - the one with the most points - will stand as the winner. During the game, you place warrior miniatures within the mausoleum, forming groups. A group's miniatures may belong to multiple players as denoted by the player bases on those miniatures. Multiple separate groups consisting of the same type of miniature may exist within the mausoleum. You will have many opportunities to score points based on domination and presence. To achieve domination, you must be the only player with the most of the specific resource or type of statue currently being scored. (If you are the only player, you have domination.) To have presence, you must have at least one of the specific resource or type of statue currently being scored. At the end of the fifth round, the player with the most VPs wins.
Designers
Przemysław Fornal, Adam Kwapiński
Artists
Zuzanna Kołakowska, Jan Lipiński, Aleksander Zawada
Publisher
Board&Dice
Categories
Mechanics