In addition to an Attack Value, each Threat also has a Life Total. This Attack Value can be used in several ways: defeating Threats, improving hunts, and even attacking other vampires. In addition to the speed value and abilities you’d expect from the base game’s starting cards, most of these new cards also include an Attack Value (denoted by an icon that resembles an open mouth with fangs revealed). In the High Stakes expansion, each player’s starting card deck has been replaced by an entirely new one. Threats are defeated using Attack Value, the High Stakes expansion’s final offering. Even better, all of those human cards get added to the player’s Digested area where they will count for end-of-game scoring purposes. Upon defeating the Werewolf, the player will earn victory points based on how many humans were beneath the card. For instance, the humans eaten by a Werewolf are stored beneath the card. A small sampling of the expansion’s many Threats.Įach Threat has a special ability that will grant the person that defeats it a number of victory points. Thereafter, whenever the player shuffles their deck to form a new draw pile, each Threat in their play area will inflict further wounds.
They immediately receive a number of wounds equal to the Threat’s power. If a player hunts from a row which contains a Threat, then they must take that Threat into their play area. Werewolves will eat any humans that wind up in the 1 column of the Hunting track row they have been assigned to. Threats come in the form of entities which traditionally give vampires a lot of headaches: vampire hunters and werewolves. The player with the fewest victory points draws the Threat card and places it, along with the Spawn Location card, to the right of a row of their choosing, as long as that row doesn’t already have a Threat already assigned to it. If the card matching the seal isn’t already in use, then a Threat is revealed. The color of this seal corresponds to a ‘Spawn Location’ card that will have been drawn during setup (one per row on the Hunt track). Regular events, on the other hand, are typically negative in nature and are how the Threats are spawned.Īt the bottom of most of the Regular event cards is a colored seal. Game events will present a unique benefit that all players can enjoy over the entire course of the game. There are two flavors of events: Game events (which last the entire game) and Regular events that arrive, one per round, beginning with round two. EventsĮvents are the second item this expansion brings to the table. Because sometimes, you might find yourself going up against a Threat.īut, before we talk about Threats, let’s talk about Events. That being said, burning through your deck in a card drawing frenzy with this expansion isn’t always preferable. And, unlike the junk cards in other games, which only serve to clutter your deck and make your hand less efficient during turns in which they are drawn, each wound played from your hand allows you to draw a card to replace it. Using your speed to hunt is very easy to do, so they’re relatively easy to get rid of. Wounds can be healed by hunting humans during a turn in which one or more wounds were played from the player’s hand.įor the most part, wounds aren’t as harmful as they sound. Furthermore, if wounds aren’t healed (removed from their deck) by the end of the game, the player will lose two victory points per wound remaining in their deck during end-of-game scoring. Once a player is tasked with drawing a wound but doesn’t have one in their supply, they start losing victory points for each wound they can no longer take.
Certain things which take place in the game may result in a player receiving one or more wounds. At the start of a game where this expansion is included, each player receives eight ‘Wound’ cards which lie on top of a single “You are injured” card. What’s New? Woundsįirst, there is the concept of ‘wounds’. If you’re not, go check out my review of The Hunger and then come back. Note: this review assumes you’re familiar with the base game. When I saw there was an expansion being released for it, I pounced on it like a hungry Louis de Pointe du Lac would a particularly plump rat. Last year, I sung the praises of the ridiculously fun, don’t get caught out in the sun, game The Hunger. What is it? What does it bring to the table? And can you live without it? Join David as he attempts to answer these questions.
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