Warhammer Invasion: The Card Game - March of the Damned Box Expansion

A great addition to an already great card game. My favorite card game going. This only improves it with yet another great expansion.

... unless you plan on playing with a bunch of neutral cards, or the generally pathetic faction specific cards inclued in this set. I have enjoyed most of the other releases for this game, with each one bringing something new and valuable to the game's experience. Not so with this one.The two new "factions" introduced in this set are the Vampire Counts and the Lizardmen, each with their own new keyword. The Vampire Counts have necromancy, which allows you to play units from your discard pile, then put them on the bottom of your deck at the end of the turn. The Lizardmen have "savage" which allows them to deal damage to units in their zone, provided they received damage and survived.These are interesting and useful abilities, but to receive any real benefit from them, you would need to play a deck primarily constructed with these neutral cards. Likewise for the supporting tactics cards of these factions. For instance, the Lizardman tactics and upper tier creatures rely on you having lots of other lizardmen in play.Perhaps this would make sense if these new factions were true factions, rather than being neutral cards. If I recall, the neutral cards were intended to support the faction specific decks and provide a bit of variety. I'm sure there are various strategies that would benefit from some of these cards. Personally, I'm not sure that there are any cards from this set that I would care to use when assembling a deck.I wish that I had read the description on Amazon before picking this up locally. The back of the box does not give specifics as to the contents (two neutral factions, three copies of 55 cards). I'm thankful that I had a 40% off coupon, rather than spending the usual $30. I would recommend picking up a couple battle packs for about what you would spend on this waste of money and deck space.

This expansion is not a stand-alone product. Anyone looking to start playing Warhammer Invasion needs the Core Set first. If you are going to buy 1 other Invasion product, it should be the other expansion (Assault on Ulthuan), which comes with 2 other complete decks and factions. March of the Damned is really just a large battlepack. That said, I think the 2 included factions are a lot of fun, and have enough identity to form the basis of their own decks. I own one of each set and 1 of each battlepack, and I was easily able to make a Lizardmen deck (with some High Elves) and an Undead deck (with some Chaos and Dark Elves). If you only own a Core Set, this expansion is not for you. If you also own a few battlepacks, you will be able to make good use of the cards.

I ordered the standard English version, but the Box I received was Spanish. What a waste of my time and money, as I could have got the set elsewhere at the time. Now it's unavailable with other retailers.