World of Warcraft Board Game

One of my grade school friends brought home an $80.00 gem in the form of World of Warcraft the Board Game. For WoW Online players, WoW:TBG is basically another way to enjoy the WoW gaming experience offline (like we haven’t had enough!).

WoW Board Game

So my friends have transformed ourselves into 5 year olds once more and we’ve been trying to figure out how this game is actually played. As WoW Online players, we’ve kinda gotten the gist of the whole thing as a lot of the references from lore to mechanics stem from the game. A game lasts roughly four to five hours.

In the meantime, what I’ve done was to post photos instead after the jump!

Inside the Box

Character Sheet

World Map

Heroes are in Grey

WoW Heroes on the map

Bad guys

From what I gather, there are two possible ways to win the game - the first is to go the PvE route and slay either Nefarian, Kel ‘ Thuzad or Lord Kazaak. If after 30 turns a boss is not slain, players get to duke it out on PvP.

Character sheet for leveling up

Starting zone at Brill for Horde

It is quite interesting to note how the Horde start at the town of Brill and not Undercity while the Alliance start at Southshore. The game map is composed of the upper part of Kalimdor only which means that the Horde capital of Orgrimaar isn’t even seen.

Alliance start at Southshore

40 page manual

Items Galore!

Deck for items and for events

Ogre

Party of four

You may proceed here to read a quick overview of the game as well as a review.

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  1. I do hope you do not mean that board games are for five years old. :)

    Because they are not. Five hours is not so bad. It is said that one of the tests of truly good board game or any game for that matter is that you know the mechanics and goals of the game within five minutes.

  2. Juned on February 3rd, 2008 at 6:03 am
  3. Wooooow! :) How many players can play the game at the same time?

  4. egarayblas on February 3rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
  5. @juned: ah yes juned silly me. tabletops are for grown men like us :)

    @eric: i think pwede 6 players max!

  6. Jayvee on February 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
  7. … aaannd half the fun is actually painting the figurines!

  8. Jayvee on February 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 am
  9. I’m so jealous. I want the small figurines. :(

    Can somebody make a chess set with like Warcraft characters???

  10. Ria Jose on February 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
  11. Geez, I loooove painting stuff! :)

  12. egarayblas on February 5th, 2008 at 9:43 am
  13. WoW back to world of warcraft! hehe been wow free for a year na. wawa naman mga accounts at 70s ko lolz

  14. Kiven on February 5th, 2008 at 11:20 am
  15. that board is the upper portion of the eastern kingdoms, not kalimdor, which is why orgrimmar is not present.

  16. elko on April 21st, 2008 at 12:52 pm

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