Some units have swords and must be orthogonally adjacent to an enemy to attack. To attack, you choose up to three different units to attack an enemy. These give you special powers, such as extra movement, increased attack power, and the ability to deploy reinforcements.ĭuring the Movement phase, you can move up to three units up to two spaces each. Next, you can play any event cards (including wall cards) in your hand. A summoned unit must be placed on an empty space next to one of your wall cards. You spend magic points (acquired in the Build Magic phase) to summon new units. Summoning is how you bring new units onto the board. If your draw pile is empty, you no longer have a draw phase, which helps ensure a quick game but also forces you to make some difficult decisions. Once the board is set up (each army has a specific starting layout), the game is played in six phases: Draw, Summon, Play Event Cards, Movement, Attack, and Build Magic.Īt the start of your turn, you draw cards until you’re holding five. But the new Summoner Wars Master Set, due out this month, includes the deluxe board and six all-new armies.) Plaid Hat Games later released a “deluxe” board, which is now sold out. (The original starter sets included “boards” printed on folded, glossy paper. The board is a grid six spaces wide and eight spaces deep. This game is all about attacks there is very little opportunity to hide. Each of the decks has one “summoner,” and the winner is the first to destroy his opponent’s summoner card. In Summoner Wars, each player controls a fantasy army, such as dwarves, elves, goblins or orcs. It is also no surprise that as a huge fan of Heroscape, I also immediately fell in love with Summoner Wars. So it comes as little surprise that his first published game plays like the card game version of Heroscape. Some of you have been following us for over a decade, and we hope that our trajectory is in line with your expectations.I first “met” Colby Dauch, designer of Summoner Wars, at, a fan site he established (and still runs) that’s dedicated to the brilliant Hasbro board game Heroscape. We can’t thank you enough for being a part of Covenant. We’re only able to do something like this because of the amazing support from our customers, viewers, and supporters over the years.
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You can find out more via Plaid Hat’s press release and our live stream announcement (it’s probably stil processing), and we hope it goes without saying that all of us at Covenant, as well as the team at Plaid Hat, would love to have you as a part of this new Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn community.Īs a little proof that this project has been actively in development for months, take a peek at the pending Ashes 1.5 Upgrade Pack design! It isn’t final, but it should provide an idea of what to expect.
Given the unique and impressive art and personas in the game (thanks Fernanda!), how encouraging Nick Conley’s 1.5 development approach has been, and how highly we rate the game, we think that goal is absolutely in reach. One subscription with a quantity of 20 does count as 20 toward the goal of 1000. The only way this happens is if at least 1,000 subscribers are onboard via the Ashes 1.5 Reborn Subscription. Instead of accepting that fate, we’ve partnered with Plaid Hat to pioneer this new Player-Driven Production subscription model and to give dedicated fans – assuming there are enough of us – the ability to make Ashes 1.5 a reality. That’s why these games so often never get made or get lost in the noise after their initial hype dies down. Similarly, a game with smaller, affordable expansions make expandable games a bad fit for Kickstarter. We interviewed Colby Dauch (CEO of Plaid Hat) at GAMA this year where he spoke about the concept of a “minimum viable audience,” and our off-camera discussions quickly shifted to Ashes as a perfect example of this idea.Īn expandable card game from a smaller publisher doesn’t have the volume needed for the traditional three-tier system and demands shelf space from retailers.
If you would like to see Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn return, sign up for our Ashes 1.5 Reborn Subscription! If enough people sign up for our Ashes 1.5 subscription, Plaid Hat will reboot the game – starting with an Ashes 1.5 Upgrade Pack ($29.95) that contains rebalanced and streamlined reprints of ~30% of the Ashes 1.0 card pool – and new expansions will continue to be produced every three months as long as there are enough subscribers to meet the production threshold. Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn, the well-loved expandable card game from Plaid Hat Games, is getting a second chance through a new variation of our Covenant Subscriptions service we’re calling the Player-Driven Production model.
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