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In Conquest of the Fallen Lands, you and your fellow players have a task to free a land invaded by vile hordes of monsters, and win back the treasures they plundered.
The game board is composed of hex tiles representing orc scouting parties, encampments, fortifications, dragons, etc. Each tile has a difficulty level.
Players take turns conquering these tiles by playing troop cards on them. Each conquered tile creates new opportunities to tackle tougher tiles around it, both for you and your opponents (so you have to be careful!).
Conquering a tile gets you a reward equal to its difficulty level. This money is used in the game to purchase assets and abilities, and it is also used to determine who has won this game, once it's over.
A number of magic cards introduce a variety of special effects and abilities that can greatly benefit the players.
The game includes two rule sets, Normal and Advanced, that play very differently:
The Normal game is very accessible; it is a lighter game that plays with little downtime and yet has a lot of strategic depth.
The Advanced rules lead to a more complex game that can sometimes be a bit of a brain burner. It also moves at a much slower pace.
Fallen Lands l Solo Scenario Mission Playthrough
- Huge variety of play styles (solo, co-op, PvP, campaigns)
- Massive card and component pool providing high replayability
- Descendants expansion adds deep new content and town events
- Powerful tools and equipment options (vehicles and master characters)
- Scenario book and campaign structure create evolving narratives within the game
- Very heavy setup and steep learning curve
- Long play sessions per game and per player
- Potential rule ambiguities and errors; reliance on pinned comments for errata
- High risk in some encounters (party can die if checks go poorly)
- survival, community rebuilding, and faction politics in a ruined world
- Post-apocalyptic wasteland with towns, mutations, radiation zones, and factions
- scenario-driven with a campaign book, town management, and player choices
- First Edition Fallen Lands
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Campaigns and Descendants expansion — Two campaigns and a Descendants expansion add factions, starter technologies, and story-driven content.
- Encounters, missions, and town events — Cards drive encounters and missions with rewards and penalties; town events alter phase results and play dynamics.
- Events — Cards drive encounters and missions with rewards and penalties; town events alter phase results and play dynamics.
- Player modes — Supports solo, cooperative (CO-OP), and player-vs-player (PvP) play, with distinct card decks for each mode.
- Point of Interest (POI) tokens and map hexes — A large map with various terrain types and random POI placements that drive encounters and objectives.
- Skill checks — Ten-sided dice are rolled to resolve character skill checks, with success thresholds that shape outcomes and rewards.
- Town health and town technologies — Town health is a central resource; technologies upgrade the town and grant ongoing bonuses.
- vehicles and equipment — Vehicles reduce movement costs, unlock special movement, and enable equipment synergies.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- There are so many different ways to be able to play this game
- This scenario book is one of the newest things I like about the second edition
- The Descendants expansion adds depth and campaigns
- This map is absolutely epic
- Absolute blast
- I am super excited to show this to you
- There are so many different ways to play this game
- Gen Con, the creators of Fallen Lands have been at Gen Con for 10 years straight
- It is monstrous in scale and replayability