The Great Wall (Dragon Pledge Kickstarter)

The Great Wall is a competitive strategy game for 1-4 players, set in medieval China that blends historical themes with a pinch of fantasy flavor. The game includes cooperative and solo modes.

The Great Wall is a new asymmetric worker/soldier placement game with engine building themes and a twist in form of a constantly attacking AI (Mongolian Horde) that requires players to sometimes cooperate in order to defeat it.

The Great Wall is a new major board game from Awaken Realms (creators of Nemesis, Tainted Grail, Etherfields, and many other acclaimed products) and our fresh take on Euro / Worker placement type of Board Games! 

Players will take the roles of generals of an ancient Chinese empire who lead the defense against ruthless hordes. You will need to gather allied advisors, manage your workers, recruit armies and, together with other players, raise and defend the Great Wall! As the game progresses, you will often need to negotiate and interact with other players, but make no mistake – there can be only one winner

Players will control ancient clans in China trying to defend invading Mongolian hordes and build a Great Wall. While every player will want to win (by earning VP = Honor) they also need to sometimes cooperate to defend against the hordes. Each clan will be asymmetric through its chosen Leader (resource production/starting resources/starting workers and units) and this asymmetry will increase as the game progresses (players will hire Advisors with unique skills, often creating unique engines).

What’s in the box:

Base Game

• Miniatures for 4 clans (snake - yellow, dragon - red, monkey - blue, turtle green):
  • 8 x clerks
  • 10 x spearman
  • 4 x archer
  • 2 x cavalry

• Board (double-sided)
• THE WALL:
• 3 x First Part of the Wall
• 3 x Second Part of the Wall
• 3 x Third Part of the Wall
• 9 x Fortifications
• Cards:
• 24 x Horde
• 8 x General (+5 new)
• 20 x Tactic
• 24 x Command
• 34 x Advisor (+10 new)
• 5 x Artifact
• Other components:
• 4 x Player's Screen
• 2 x Plastic Insert
• 8 x Acrylic Player Tokens
• 4 x Acrylic Honor Token
• Rulebook
• 1 postmaster office (cardboard)
• 50 x wooden gold token
• 50 x wooden wood token
• 50 x wooden stone token
• 50 x acrylic meditation token
• 30 x acrylic wound token

Stretch Goals

• Cooperative Mode:
• 6 new general cards
• 24 x new horde cards
• 12 x event cards
• 12 x tactics cards
• 12 x emperor's request
• marketplace

• Genghis Khan Expansion:
• manual
• 4 miniatures soldier with banner (1 for each clan)
• 4 help cards
• 6 x new advisor cards
• 6 x emperor awards cards
• emperor award model
• 8 x new horde cards
• genghis khan card
• genghis khan miniature

• 5th Player Expansion:
• Miniatures (orange):
• 8 x clerks
• 10 x spearman
• 4 x archer
• 2 x cavalry
• 1 x soldier with banner
• 4 x tactic cards
• 4 general cards
• 4 x advisor cards
• 6 x command cards
• 1 player screen
• 1 tea token
• 1 honor token
• 1 command token

• Special gift - The Rat:
• rat model
• 10 artifact cards
• wooden resource tokens

• Special gift - Ancient Chronicles Expansion:
• 4 x general cards
• 10 x advisors card
• 10 x artifact cards
• 8 x tactics cards
• 6 x scenarios

• Surprise box