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Description provided by Cards and Boards (Game Review) on YouTube:
Hello everyone. I am back with another game I backed on Kickstarter. This one is Covil: The Dark Overlords. It is from Vesuvius Media and designed and illustrated by Luís Brüeh (the designer and illustrator of Dwar7s Fall). While I am mentioning Dwar7s Fall, they are Kickstarting Dwar7s Winter as I post this (there are about 3 days left). The Kickster is over, but you can still late pledge here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vesuviusmedia/dwar7s-winter
In Covil you play a dark overlord vying to be the greatest dark overlord in the land and concur your foes. You send your minions and hire more powerful minions to help you achieve your goals.
The official site for Covil: The Dark Overlords is https://www.vesuviusmedia.com/games/covil-the-dark-overlords
and the boardgamegeek.com page is https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/187976/covil-dark-overlords
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. Covil: The Dark Overlords is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 10 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
1 - 4 players
40 - 90 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About Covil: The Dark Overlords, from BoardGameGeek:
You are the dark Overlord, and the ritual is complete. At your command, the Covil rises. A living and breathing fortress now profaned by the greed crystals. Inside its dungeons lies the gate to the dark lands where countless hordes of chaotic beings were enslaved for so long. This time you will have your revenge.
In Covil: The Dark Overlords, you will struggle for the supremacy of the regions surrounding an isolated town. Each player controls a Dark Overlord with unique powers and countless troops of minions to “defend the world from enemy hordes”, bring “peace and security to the territories” - at a cost, of course!
The game consist of 4 days, each of them is divided in 3 phases:
Phase 1: Morning (Summoning troops)
Phase 2: Afternoon (Performing Actions)
Phase 3: Night (Dominance and Clean-up)
At the end of the fourth night phase, the game ends. The player with most victory points wins.