Welcome to the mid-week fellow gamers, and I hope that the rest of this week goes well for you as we head into the weekend!  I am pleased to report that I was offered an advanced copy of the upcoming Conquest of Nerath board game from Wizards of the Coast, which is due out at the end of the month, and it gave me an opportunity to play it this past weekend with buddies in Toledo before writing my review for EN World News!

I also got some pics of the unboxing of Conquest of Nerath, and the many components of the game, which you can check out in this blog as well as the pre-release review on EN World.  This board game is packed with quality components and not only looks great, but is a heck of a lot of fun to play!  But for a more detailed review and discussion of play, please click the link below and head over to EN World for all the details:

Pre-Release Review of Conquest of Nerath by Wizards of the Coast

Below is a pic of the unboxing of the Conquest of Nerath game, and farther down is a pic of the play mid-game:

As you can see there is a TON of components – here’s a list of the contents of the box:

1 Game Board

1 Rulebook

1 Storage Tray

5 Reference Cards (one for each realm, plus a Quick reference card)

252 Plastic Figures (63 for each realm)

• 80 Foot Soldiers
• 24 Seige Engines
• 24 Fighters
• 24 Wizards
• 32 Monsters
• 12 Castles
• 16 Storm Elementals
• 16 Dragons
• 24 War Ships

50 Plastic Chips (40 gray, 10 red)

80 control markers (20 for each realm)

2 Alliance Markers

30 Dungeon Guardian tokens

80 Event cards (20 per realm)

30 Treasure Cards

80 Gold Tokens (50 1-gold and 30 5-gold)

16 dice

• 6x 6-sided
• 4x 8-sided
• 3x 10-sided
• 2x 12-sided
• 1x 20-sided

As you can see, a lot of great stuff in this game to really make it a great game experience!  So if you’re in the market for a new board game, check out my review and give some serious consideration to the new Conquest of Nerath game by WotC – due out this month!

So until next blog… I wish you Happy Gaming!

Tags: board game, conquest of nerath, D&D 4e, review, Wizards of the Coast

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