Aeons End The Void by Indie Boards and Cards, Strategy Board Game

War Eternal is an excellent evolution from the already fantastic Aeon's End. As a stand alone game, it largely improves on it's predecessor with better and more challenging nemeses, more interesting mages, and still excellent market cards. It's only relative downside is that a sizable minority of the content is geared towards higher play counts and doesn't scale as well for 1-2 player games. As an expansion to Aeon's End, it elevates the original game, and the combined content eliminates most any deficiency in either stand alone product. Bottom line, buy the game; you won't regret it. Aeon's End is a cooperative deck builder. You and your fellow players are mages, defending Gravehold from the evil Nemeses that are trying to snuff out the last bastion of humanity. You all start the game with relatively similar starting hands and positions, the differences of which won't be as apparent until you've got a few games in. There is a market with nine different cards that you are able to purchase to add to and improve your deck. Each turn, you play cards from your hand to purchase new cards, prepare spells to attack the nemesis and its minions, or use abilities. In an interesting bit of strategy, you (almost) never shuffle your deck, allowing you to plan out future hands and purchases turns in advance. The nemesis serves as your antagonist and is controlled by a combination of its unique mechanics and a semi-random nemesis deck. Player and nemesis turn order is randomized each round. Generally speaking, the game ends when either all players, Gravehold, or the nemesis are reduced to zero life. Indie Boards and Cards has had some endemic production quality issues. Thankfully, if you have any issues with your copy, they respond promptly (within a week or two) and will replace any problematic or missing pieces (within a month or two). As of the AE: Legacy printing (Jan 2019), these quality control issues seen to be resolved, so I wouldn't expect that anyone has this issue unless you're playing an older copy from a smaller retailer. War Eternal is a great starting point for getting in to Aeon's End, and what I'd recommend for most people. Better nemesis replay-ability gets it the nod over the original Aeon's End, but the game really shines once you pick up both stand alone games. If you want a simpler/easier play experience or play exclusively with 1-2 players, then Aeon's End might be the better option. The point is, you should buy one of them. Then the other. Then the small expansions...

Super fun addition to our Aeon’s End collection! Love the new characters to play, and bosses to fight!

Tremendous game! I've been hearing about Aeon's End for a while now among the boardgame community. I was hesitant to buy the game because I was worried about the complexity. My family enjoys complex games but those games are hard to get to the table, thus reducing their return on investment. I also hate having to do a rule check for every game turn/action (I'm looking at you Mage knight). This game does not have that problem. It offers a ton of variety and one you understand the basic set up and mechanics you can throw away the rule book. It really is that intuitive. This game is simply brilliant regardless of player count! I've played it solo and multi player and like it equally as much at all player counts. It's my favorite deck builder and currently my favorite solo experience. It offers so much! It's relatively easy to get to the table and offers a big game experience in about an hour and 15 minutes - that is casually playing at any player count. I highly recommend this game! SO GOOD!

The verdict is still out, but our first game did not go well. It's fun to play, but we had a group of very experienced board gamers, and lost by a huge margin. Like, we never had a chance. Maybe it's better with more players (we had 3)? But it scales, so I can't imagine that making a huge difference. I like the gameplay, but it seems unbalanced.

War Eternal seems great. The cards can be mixed with the base Aeon’s End (2nd Edition) without noticing any difference from the backs of the cards, thus giving endless market and nemesis combinations. There is as much variety and as many cards as the original game (6 mages, 4 nemeses, ****loads of spells and gems...). My main complaint would be that they included Mist again as a mage. However, her charge requirement, ability, and starting card is different. The remainder of her starting hand and deck is the same, as well as her starting breach orientation. The card quality is equivalent to the base game. Pretty good, but some nicks along the edges. Also, the cardboard divider inside the box sucks and came bent, as was the case when I bough the base Aeon’s End. I freaked out because I thought I was short a bunch of the basic nemesis cards, but found them hidden under the crappy, white cardboard divider. My last complaint is that it appears some of the artwork is inconsistent (i.e. the Hollow Crown’s “acolyte” deck seems to have blurry artwork, and Dezmodia does not look like she was drawn by the same artist. It looks as though 3 different artists did the artwork for the mages). Yet to play, but the cards seem to have a similar feel to the base game as I skimmed over them - but not too similar, which is good. Can’t wait to have a new market, new nemeses and new mages - minus Mist ;) -Brant Shalek

Not like other deck builders. Tons of replayability. Each round is different. Interesting mages, cards and nemesis to mix and match. Scalable difficulty. Amazingly interesting mechanics. A very unique game overall. There is nothing like it. Just buy it, you won’t regret it. I haven’t really played a lot of other deck builders, and this is my first delve into Aeons End, period. As far as I have heard, War Eternal is a bit more complicated than the base game, but both are stand alone, and it was not too difficult to learn. A good amount of rules to wrap your head around, but once you do, the strategy and variety makes it SO much fun. Terrific with just 2 players. You really get to work together to synergize your card effects and abilities. And when you finally beat that difficult boss, it’s a really great sense of accomplishment.

All my comments about this game being the best cooperative game and best deckbuilder still apply here. This game comes with a ton more content, in the form of new player characters and cards as well as some awesome nemeses to battle. It really increases the replay value, and even includes a nice three and four player variant for yet more difficulty adjustments. In my mind, it's a wonder how this game isn't more popular, as it takes the winning gameplay of Dominion and adds a ton more content as well as different game win conditions in the form of the different nemeses. If you haven't tried this game, give it a shot! You definitely won't regret it.

A couple months ago, we played “Aeon’s End: The New War” and we loved it! Each nemesis was quite different, and the game offered perfect amount of decisions. Loving this so much, we preordered the new coming “the Legacy of Gravehold.” While still waiting for our late pledge to arrive, we revisited our beloved Aeons End with “War Eternal” expansion. It has interesting mages and items with good synergies! What about nemeses? They didn’t frustrate us either! OK, time to be honest, the first nemesis seemed easy at first, but oh my God, it turned out to be such a challenge! It had another lose condition and the only way to avoid it was receiving damage to our beloved city Gravehold. Luckily one of our mages was incredible in healing the Gravehold! So, we won at the last minute! This game feels so rewarding!

Produit apprécié, livré dans les temps et au bon endroit : un anniversaire réussi.

If you like Aeon's End., this is more of the same. Great cards and fantastic boss monsters and heroes.

O jogo é muito divertido, ele possui algumas camadas de complexidade que só deixam o jogo cada vez mais interessante. Recomendo bastante.

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Arrived in perfect condition. Researched the Aeons end series and decided War Eternal would be the best starting set. Game is easy to learn and there's lots in the box for replayability. Even though War Eternal has harder bosses, you can play on beginner, normal or expert modes. Highly recommended!