World of Warcraft: Wrath Of The Lich King - How To Play

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00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - Game Setup
05:54 - Game Play Overview
06:24 - Step One: Perform Four Actions
06:33 - Action: Move
06:50 - Travel Cards
07:35 - Action: Fight
08:27 - Fight Cards
08:44 - Taking Damage
09:47 - Becoming Severely Wounded
10:34 - Defend Cards
11:01 - Action: Quest
13:07 - Action: Rest
13:29 - Heal Cards
13:49 - Action: Flight Path
14:20 - Step Two: Draw Two Hero Cards
14:38 - Resolving Stronghold Cards
15:08 - The Scourge Rises Cards
17:02 - Step Three: Spawn Ghouls
17:23 - Resolving An Overrun
17:48 - Step Four: Activate Abominations
18:48 - Winning The Game
19:19 - Reward Cards
19:50 - Unlocking Icecrown Citadel
20:57 - Conclusion

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[TenMinuteGamer]

I worked for Blizzard Entertainment from 2008 - 2013 and Wrath of the Lich King was a huge expansion for World of Warcraft and working their during that time was wonderful. My brother just sent me this game as a belated birthday present. Hopefully this video will help me keep my sanity until the game is delivered later this week. Thanks Rodney!

[beerkenstein]

Amazing presentation, fast, smooth, to the point. The game also sounds enjoyable, I am now convinced to buy one.

[GoodRogue]

This reminds me of the golden age of Warcraft 3 and all these 10 heroes style maps that would spring up then. Good times. I know already I am going to enjoy this board game immensely. Thank you very much for a clear, solid and fluid presentation!

[bccooper]

My family and I just played through this for the first time today this Thanksgiving afternoon.

We got about 90% of the rules correct, however we got it wrong how the symbols on the quest cards work.

In the example used in the book we got confused and thought the fight symbol on cards was how you advance through the quest after using the dice (which meant we was not paying attention to each symbol, fight, shield, heal, etc on the quest board as to how to properly advance the token).

After the game, I then went to YouTube to see a play through. Your channel came up first.

You did an excellent job telling us how to play the game and showing us where we went wrong in the game. I’m even more excited to play again.

Playing through once on our own helped us to figure out the turn order and the basics in how the game works.

Now that we have all the rules sorted out, it will be even better next time around.

Thank you so much. You earned that like and subscribe.

I can’t wait to check out the rest of your videos.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[TerreDiceGames]

Looks so awesome!! The Pandemic system is tried and true, and the reimplementation here looks great - using actual locations/heroes/baddies. Not to mention the amazing components! This is looking like a winner!

[swampsect]

Finally managed to find the time to get into this one, thanks to your video I mastered it pretty quickly, it's now my most favorite tabletop. Thanks again!

[JavierPumarejo]

Absolutely fantastic description.
10/10 Box flip at the end.
Remember to advance that despair marker!

[WWSolitaireBoardGameChannel]

That looks really fun! Going to get it to play this christmas. Last year i got my family to play Small world of Warcraft and we had such a blast.

[nienke]

Thanks for the video, I've never played World of Warcraft, but I love the Pandemic system (I already own the normal pandemic, Iberia, Reign of Cthulhu, Rising Tides, and Fall of Rome😅) and I do think this is a very interesting reimplementation of that system, and might even be the most different use of the system to date, so I'm now seriously considering getting this one as well just for the new interesting way of implementation of the Pandemic system it offers.

[mitsevans]

Love the way pandemic system can fill many lores and be fun all every time. My first board game was pandemic call of cthulhu and i love it.

[Scarring]

I just discovered this game at Target and, before buying, I immediately watched your video as soon as I came home. Excellent video, thank you!

[christopherallen]

Rodney, videos always my first go to. Every game becomes so clear. We use your videos if available to learn new games first before reading the rule book. Makes it easier to understand. Thank you!

Question: all the quest mini bosses seem to possess an action above their damage as you state on Naxaramus example except Malygos. Does this quest mini boss have any ability related to the mage text? Seems odd they made this one boss compared to the other red quests so easy.

[Ellion_vt]

Very well done video - I love Iberia and rapid response. Played WoW so much, mostly during WotLK - this looks like a must have!

[gavinkums]

One of the best game reviews I’ve ever watched! Can’t wait to get my hands on this and play!

[hobbitonpiper]

Got this for my son for Christmas, playing it tomorrow! :)

[JanJanNik]

this is probably so much fun to play with friends and fans of the warcraft universe

[melissahays]

I played this for the first time and had a blast! Even though I was playing by myself, I didn't play the solo game; instead, I just played 3 characters. I have several questions, though.

Questing:
1. When questing with more than 1 player on the quest space, can you use only 1 card to advance the quest track, or can you use 1 card per player on the space? The rules made it sound like the latter.

Fighting:
1. If the Lich King is in the color you're fighting and there are no enemies remaining after the fight, do you still lose 1 health due to the King?
2. Can you fight ghouls and abominations at the same time (i.e. during the same action)?
3. If the Lich King is in the citadel, does he exert his influence on all fights on the board? So, for a fight in any color, do you lose 1 extra health?

Sylvanas Windrunner:
1. When she fights from an adjacent space, do enemies on her space (not the adjacent space) cause damage to her at the end of the fight?


Thanks! I'm planning to post this question to board game geek, too.

[karldoughty]

That was an impressive opening box spin . . . 👏🏼

[DonTinker]

I'll finally try this game today and feel pretty confident with this explanation!

[konanamegakure]

You know at first I was going to say, da heck dude? You are at least ten years late and then I was like its a board game o.o! Didn't know there was a board game. 1:30 remarkably close to hearthstone cards. So glad to see a channel dedicated to great cause.