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- Creators
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Mostly playthroughs and reviews
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Encounters: Shattered Wastes
2024Ryan Farmer
- Videos
- 17
- Creators
- 11
Mainly reviews and how-to-play. Encounters: Shattered Wastes is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 6 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 4 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 1 other video.
1 - 4 players
60 - 100 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
From BoardGameGeek
Encounters: Shattered Wastes is a cooperative board game. Each player chooses one or more characters (for a total of 2-4 characters being used in a single game) to explore the land of untamed magic known as The Shattered Wastes. Players will fight an enemy in a battle known as an Encounter. Players win an encounter when both sides of an Enemy Card are defeated by reducing the enemy's Strength and inflicting Wounds. Players and their characters will need to work together to weaken the enemy using their own attacks, which shifts the enemy's Strength from Stamina to Fatigue. This will Stagger the enemy, giving players the opportunity to inflict Wounds upon it. Enemies will harm characters by using both Strength and Rage cards. Players lose an encounter if all characters have been removed from the Encounter by having their Health Points (HP) reduced to 0 or have fully succumbed to corruption. -description from the designer
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Which Encounters: Shattered Wastes video should I watch?
Encounters: Shattered Wastes has 17 videos from 11 creators: 6 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 4 playthroughs, 2 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2023 to August 2024.
To learn the rules, start with "Encounters Shattered Wastes Board Game - How to Play Board Game, with Tarrant and Stella" by The Dice Tower, which runs 22 min. For a quicker teach, "Encounters: Shattered Wastes Setup" by Agent Solo Runthroughs runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Encounters: Shattered Wastes Review - Stagger, Beat Down, Rinse, Repeat" by BoardGameCo. 5 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Encounters: Shattered Wastes | Kickstarter Preview Playthrough & Impressions | with Peter & Mike" by Co-op Guild, one of 4 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Star Realms: Frontiers, Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, Wizards of the Grimoire or Space Marine Adventures: Labyrinth of the Necrons, which share several of its mechanics.
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About Encounters: Shattered Wastes
From BoardGameGeek:
Encounters: Shattered Wastes is a cooperative board game. Each player chooses one or more characters (for a total of 2-4 characters being used in a single game) to explore the land of untamed magic known as The Shattered Wastes. Players will fight an enemy in a battle known as an Encounter. Players win an encounter when both sides of an Enemy Card are defeated by reducing the enemy's Strength and inflicting Wounds. Players and their characters will need to work together to weaken the enemy using their own attacks, which shifts the enemy's Strength from Stamina to Fatigue. This will Stagger the enemy, giving players the opportunity to inflict Wounds upon it. Enemies will harm characters by using both Strength and Rage cards. Players lose an encounter if all characters have been removed from the Encounter by having their Health Points (HP) reduced to 0 or have fully succumbed to corruption. -description from the designer
Designer
Ryan Farmer
Publisher
Almanac Games
Categories
Mechanics