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The Dead of Winter: Warring Colonies expansion includes 15 new survivors, 50 new crossroad cards, 43 new items, and 11 new crisis cards, many of which can be used with either Dead of Winter base set. However, to play either the warring colonies variant or the lone wolf module, you need both Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game and Dead of Winter: The Long Night.
In the warring colonies variant, which is for 4-11 players, unique main objectives set two colonies against each other as they battle for territory with a new fighting system that includes tactics cards, bullet tokens, and 12-sided combat dice. New and terrible joint-colony crisis cards force cooperation and coercion every round. New simultaneous turn mechanisms and a sand timer keep things moving at a brisk pace.
With the lone wolf module, which can be used with the warring colonies variant or on its own, one player is on a team all by themselves, hiding out in their lone wolf den and carrying out missions that affect both teams.
Part of the Dead of Winter series.
- Keeps turns moving fast, doesn't drag
- Engaging for up to 10 players
- Epic battles for power and survival
- Survival, Clans warring against each other
- Apocalypse
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Player vs. Player — two clans that kind of warned against each other
- Turn timer — there's even a timer that people have to worry a go on turns fast so it doesn't it doesn't drag
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Wow this episode is packed I better get started
- Hey everybody guess what Gen Con is coming up soon Oh more stress more stress I don't need stress in my life
- I'm a loner come on people people like underdogs I'm the underdog here not that it matters because it's not like I'm on Twitter and I
- Basically take two dead of winters and you got two clans that kind of warned against each other
- Timothy Meier and Kobe took me on this project and they did a phenomenal job of really trying to create this awesome experience or 10 up to 10 players can go ahead and play around with these epic battle in which they're they're constantly trying to vie for power and win the game of surviving through the apocalypse and there's lots of fun stuff going on there there's even a timer that people have to worry a go on turns fast so it doesn't it doesn't drag
- Crossfire what's really neat about crossfire is that it phase in three minutes so it's super major quick
- That really creates a lot of interesting chaos and a lot of fun during that three minute time period
- The game actually turned out super beautiful we had an artist named Jen Z and she's actually well known for doing video games like transistor and bashing and she's doing a lot of cool stuff so to have her work with us on that project is an absolute blast
- This game is a race up the mountain where you are trying to we played it now competitively yes there are actually two modes that to most of this game there's competitive and co-op in the the co-op actually has a solo player mode so there's actually three modes to this game solo co-op competitive but we all said yeah we're going to do some little bit of backstabbing we decide to play competitive tonight and with this crew it's a good thing that we did
- My favorite mechanic definitely is the player board and and what that does that tracks your food your oxygen your weight and your health and ultimately your speed
- The flavor texture is really good yeah takes on the Karma card my favorite my favorite was there was a card called cheat codes yeah or gave you a bunch of stuff in the flavor text at the bottom was the cheat code for the contra which is a be a no be a oh
- If he hits $100,000 he has promised after one year of badgering and pestering he will do a Star Wars rebellion how to play video