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A witch named Hester was hung, burned, and buried under a tree. Some time later, the family of Hester come to Harrow County to destroy it, but standing in their way is eighteen-year-old Emmy who mysteriously has powers of her own. In the asymmetric combat game Harrow County: The Game of Gothic Conflict, players can play as one of the Protectors, trying to rescue townsfolk, or as one of the family, trying to destroy Harrow County. You can instead play as a third faction that originates from the surprise return of Emmy's twin sister, Kammi, who wants to rule Harrow County. Players activate mason jars to move their haints (undead creatures) around the hex-based board as they try to accomplish their missions. Combat is resolved using a never-before-seen cube tower that's built into the actual box. Finally, a third player can enter the game: Hester, the dead witch buried under the tree. She controls the roots of the tree and using the cube tower, Hester can infect haints on her roots, which causes a snake to be placed into its ear. That player can still control this haint, but now so can Hester. If Hester comes back to life, then she needs to eat the other legends to gain all her power back to win. In short, Harrow County is a thematic, tactical game of territory control and enemy elimination to determine the fate of Harrow County.

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Why stop at 3 players when 4 players can play together? The Fair Folk expansion allows a player to play as the third or fourth player in any game, or as the second player against Hester.The Fair Folk are minding their own business when someone kidnapped their queen as well as her crown and sword. The other players know where they are, but you do not.You have to locate them during the battles that are going on above ground. To make matters worse, you're not able to do anything on your own due to ancient Fairy rules. Instead you need to make bargains and deals with other players to help you locate the queen and her stolen items.How they playThe Fair Folk take smaller turns after each of the 2 factions take a turn. They place a Fairy nest along with an offer in that nest on any hex on the map.If a player takes the offer and if the Fair Folk have enough silver cubes come out of the tree, the nest stays and the other players are forced to give information about the queen's sword, crown, or the location of the queen herself.If the Fair Folk find their queen, then they win. It's possible that 2 players can win when the Fair Folk are playing. One of the factions could get to 7 points during the same round when the Fair Folk find their queen!  

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The Uprising isn't a typical faction so much as it is a militia, one made up of a hodgepodge of races from the world below Ankar. Led by the vengeance-seeking Netorut, The Uprising has reverse engineered gateport technology to launch an invasion onto the joined islands, hoping to reap plunder from their chaos. Doubling as a faction expansion and gameplay refresher, The Uprising is a faction that is made up primarily of mercenary chips drafted from the market. Each Uprising faction comes with multiple market heroes, minions, spires and equipment that can be utilized by The Uprising or shuffled into the market regardless of which factions are in play. Like the Horizon's Wrath, the Uprising comes with four solo scenarios and two co-op scenarios.

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The Horizon's Wrath is a massive airship that houses the remainder of an Ankarian race whose home island was destroyed in a biological attack. To survive, the Horizon's Wrath crew has adopted a form of aeronautic piracy, raiding other islands and stealing their Source to power the ship. The Horizon's Wrath faction boasts a number of gameplay innovations, including a mobile fortress, a morale-based upgrade system and deadly cannonballs fired from its fortress. It also comes with four solo scenarios and two co-op scenarios, ensuring hours of gameplay no matter your play style.

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Ride into West Fort, a small town in the Wild West overrun with undead and show the inhabitants you are not to be crossed. Gain more Notoriety than your fellow Outlaws, take control of the town and claim it as your own. Plan your actions carefully to maximize their effect and prepare to fight over common goals. Earn, steal and shoot your way to notoriety whether in-game, by controlling unique buildings, or by clearing out the undead plaguing the town. Shoot first, ask never. The Quick and the Undead is played over “days” and each day is broken into 3 rounds of actions. Each round begins with all players simultaneously, and secretly, selecting 1 of the 8 actions by setting the corresponding number on their D8.Players reveal their numbers simultaneously and place an outlaw from their stash onto their chosen action.Players will take their turns in descending numerical order, starting with “hired guns” and continuing from action “8” down to action “2."If two or more players have an outlaw on the same action they will duel.At the end of a player's turn, if they have enough money, and there are no Undead in the street, they may purchase a building to gain it's unique action. If there is already an outlaw in the building those Outlaws will shootout for control.After all players have taken their turn, round 2 of the day will begin, however Outlaws may not return to an action if they already have an Outlaw there.After 3 rounds the current Day is over and all players collect outlaws used on action spaces (not in buildings) and return them to their stash. Outlaws that have been killed are left in the graveyard and are not collected.At the end of a day in which there are less Undead than players the game will end, and players will add up their Notoriety from tokens taken, Undead killed and buildings owned (if that building has been emptied of Undead.)The player with the highest notoriety wins. In the event of a tie, the Outlaw with more money wins. If still tied, the tied Outlaws duel to the death.

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