What I am going to tell you about is the Corruption and Ascension Expansion. And, spoiler alert; it’s so worth adding on! Here…..And Then It’s Gone! With this in mind, if you have landed here on the keyword ‘campaign’ from the empire building likes of ‘Twilight Imperium’ or ‘Through the Ages’. Or you are hoping for an expansion that would substantially up the complexity of the base game. You may find yourself shaking the box wondering where they’ve put the miniatures. The game ends after the fourth round. After all the scoring is finalized, the player with the most victory points wins. Should I Construct the production or the science card next? Game Experience: The small differences in the starting empires can really change up how you progress and what you are looking to build to score points. This gives the game some decent replayability too. I think there is room in a collection for both It’s a Wonderful World and 7 Wonders. I certainly won’t be getting rid of one of them as it stands. There is enough differentiating them to make them their own games.

As soon as you have placed the required cubes, you move the card onto your Empire and any production will be active from then on, the points will be the player who gained the most materials that round will get a blue financier token, these are worth one point, but there are cards that can be used to increase the multiplier on these types of tokens. Thus, each one builds his Heritage over the 5 scenarios. The winner of the campaign is the one who wins the last scenario. The campaign offers 6 scenarios in all because there is a branch, depending on the choice of players in scenario 4.If you have the brain capacity, you can try and hate the draft, I am only able to focus purely on my own game. You will be trying to draft cards that you can build with the resources you are able to produce or drafting cards to get you instant recycle bonuses to help you build cards faster. Each hand of cards you receive poses its own unique puzzle, sometimes you will want all the cards and occasionally it will be the worst of a bad bunch situation. Second Phase It’s a Wonderful World may be one of the strangest names for a game, especially one where the theme doesn’t exactly pop of the cards, but when the game is one of the best drafting games of recent years it doesn’t matter. Draft Phase – Every player starts with 7 cards. Players will draft a card, simultaneously reveal their card, place it in their Draft Area, and then pass the remaining cards to their left (or right in even-numbered rounds). This will continue until every player has 7 cards in their Draft Area.

It's a Wonderful World is played in 4 rounds with three phases each: first Drafting, then Planning, and finally Production. There is no scoring during the game, you save it all up for the end. Looking at people's engines, you might think you can guess who is going to be the winner, but honestly it has always been a surprise to me who wins in the end. You score all the cards you were able to get built, anything that is left unbuilt is discarded and all cubes are returned to the supply. Expand This Game? That said, unlike the first campaign offering from IAWW (War or Peace), I was impressed by how small modular additions to the game mechanics through Leisure and Decadence opened up a ‘thinkier’ version of the game. (I won’t go into detail as they are nice surprises) Story It’s a Wonderful World is an excellent close drafting, set collection, engine building, resource management game set in a dystopian universe. To be fair, the theme isn’t that strong, or even that important. And that is because the game-play is ruddy fantastic. Tight, fast playing, and fun.Some Development cards require Krystallium as a resource and some might even require the red General or blue Financier tokens (which are earned through Supremacy and Construction Bonuses). It’s a Wonderful World is easy to learn, fast to play and incredibly satisfying. Within it’s tight, streamlined gameplay you can build some amazing engines and combos and find various ways to gain points. It’s a Wonderful World is the 8th Wonder! I’d say favourably . 7 Wonders has some advantages, for sure. The higher player count shouldn’t be discounted, (although an expansion to It’s a Wonderful World also takes it up to 7 players). 7 Wonders definitely has more interaction than It’s A Wonderful World. With the war mechanic as well as the neighbour resource trading, you are definitely more invested in what at least some of the table is doing in a game of 7 Wonders. It’s Lonely at the Top