 Naughty, naughty, naughty, will I naughty in the League of Infamy? Hello Dungeon Crawlers, we are here today to do an unboxing on the League of Infamy. What is it I hear you ask? It is the new game by Mantik. You're out there exploring, levelling up, having fun, but instead of being a barbarian, a wizard and an elf ranger, you are an evil vicious vampire, a terrible dark elf sorceress, or an evil abyssal dwarf. Actually, this time you're down there, you're making sure you and your party achieve your objectives, but you're just going to make sure that you are first among equals. So that's a little overview of the game. Let's dive in and see what it is that you actually get inside the box. A box of goodness, out there, and of course, first things first, you're going to get lots and lots and lots of tiles and all your counters. You'll also be getting your rulebook. You're going to be getting character cards, and because you're all villains, you'll also get the hero cards. Kind of messes with the head of this League of Infamy business. Going on from there, all the cards you need to play, both for the Keep Master, who's the one who's running the goodies, and the villains, which is the Ballylot, and you've got lots and lots of lovely Mantik miniatures, heroes, villains, and heroes and bosses, and all your dice, and lots and more heroes, lots of your elf protectors, defenders, so a whole box full of goodness. We will take it apart and have a look at each one of these individually. Okay, well let's take a look first at the mandatory card, a big pile of it, what do you get? Actually, one of the things we thought was dungeon saga, which is quite nice to just the lovely game, a bit fiddly to set up, we just simplified that game setup. Big tiles, because you've got the doors, which we'll come to later, the way you position them into corridors. You've got lots and lots of playability in here, and there is actually a couple more room tiles, so there's almost infinite, of course, all double-sided, so you can build out the rooms, put it together. Huge, huge members of rooms and adventures, all going on from there. You also get the absolute hordes of tokens that we all need and love in a good dungeon crawler, so all the way through from what I was saying about your doors, there's your doors, and there they are if you've opened them, so you can just remember that. Turn counters, who's going in what order, some of the things you'll pick up along the way. Here's infamy, wound counters, magic spells, effects. What's infamy for? Well infamy is one of the things that makes this game a unique dungeon crawler, a kind of different gaming experience. You as a party have been sent on a mission by the league, they've sent you off to go and get rid of these elves and stop them engineering a huge program of dragons, and therefore swinging the balance of power into the favor of the elves with all of their mounts, heavy cavalry, so they want to make sure that these aren't quite as reproductive as they want. So as a group you've got a mission to do, but throughout that mission because you're a dastardly lot and you're all entirely interested in your own progression up the league, you have to claim infamy and the more infamy you claim, the more powerful you get, the more upgrade skills you get, and you get first pick of the loot cards. So throughout the game there'll always be this dichotomy between doing what's best for the party and doing what's best for you, and if you play too much in one way you won't achieve the mission and you'll all fail and the league will be very upset with you, but similarly there's times that you're going to want to make sure that what happens is entirely for your own benefit. You've got some furniture items and here range ruler, so absolutely everything you need laid up and on the on the tiles so you can get up and get going. And then we have the villain cards which is you dastardly lot that are playing trying to achieve the mission and the defender cards. These are the defender heroes who are being played by the keep master if you're playing versus the keep master but you can actually also play this solo so they'll come out at the relevant times and then these are the villain cards what've you got you've got your evil goblin assassin or your huge ratkin hero or your carzel who's the you your highfalutin gun toting um abyssal dwarf. Each of these will start with a couple of equipment cards this is a one-use flash grenade flash bomb you throw it down it stuns everybody and then you flip it over so you can't use it again for the mission. These are your pistols single or dual shot and they give you upgrades to your dice which we'll talk about later in terms of what how you play your dice but you start it tells you how many you have of each thing how many else is laid up how many wounds you have and there's your you know vampire noble twilight kin sorceress or abyssal priest hunter so there's your hero villain cards and then your heroes at least level up as the mission goes on they're accessing white and the basic dice orange and the next purple super tough so it's going to be an end level boss. The next thing we're going to bring out of the box of doom is of course the rulebook nice clearly laid out lets you know what it is you're going to get in the box all the cards all labeled up and then talk you through the rules moving shooting actions the keep phase this is when the defender plays and the end phase and then just talk briefly through how you get exploring range and cover a few special rules in annexes spells how do larger models work campaign play your characters will level up throughout the game and then picking things up these are upgrade cards how you level up and how you keep stuff from one to the other from one mission to the other and then scenarios lastly for beginners it's just a nice simple get you started introduce you everybody to the moving shooting fighting end phase before you really start scaling up into the missions that start running through here and finally the unseen master if you want to play as a purely cooperative game you can all just there is a card deck which we'll pull out in a second that shows you how you can play not against a keep master but the keep master is an AI change the dynamic slightly but still great fun and allows you all to play on the same side and it just finishes up with a nice list of exactly who's what so that uh if he says bring out the adult dragon dragon you can see there that's the rulebook the penultimate rummage is of course the card decks and a couple of things here we've got disorder cards we'll talk about the keep cards looted upgrades and things you find in the rooms let's fire into each one of these individually to have a look at what each set of cards does when you're setting up the missions it will tell you to put some light cards and some dark cards out these are less bad these are more bad just in terms of um how much damage sometimes i'll tell you exactly the number to put out so it's it's guiding you what's going to be there what's on here this room also contains two elven links and two small obstacles so one of these bigger ones this room also contains two treasure chests so that means that every time you set up you throw these cards down randomly and means that each time there'll be different things in the room so you're finding different things so even if you're playing the same scenario again it will not play the same because different things will come out in a different way when you throwing down loot cards you use these you pick them up what might you get well no dungeon will be a dungeon without a health potion you can use that as you go and it'll heal you back up you know there's also potions of speed or lucky dragonfuss we roll a dice these are all common you also get uncommon items this is a melee weapon and that updates a dice and these are the things that you can keep from scenario to scenario you don't get to keep everything that you find on your mission but if you've got the most in for me you get first pick and so that's where you want to be and making sure that you are the first among equals loot cards we've got upgrade cards what do upgrade cards do as you level up from mission to mission you're fighting tougher bosses tougher heroes the villains are levelling up so you're going to get new skills you might be a gunslinger or the patern you can use a short range weapon at long range useful skill etc etc so you've got your upgrade cards we've already talked about the starting cards which is if you're one of the characters you know you'll have your what you start with you've got your hand axe as it is used up or a tribal totem on top of your small cards which are generally for your upgrades and the omissions you've got two large card decks let's have a look at each one of these and see which one each one does the two main decks or the one deck that you're going to use mostly if you're playing as a keep master you're going to have your disorder cards and your defense cards in every game the disorder cards are these are where your villain can have a few little extra missions for himself to do to get some more infamy points so draw attention play this card during your turn the keep master takes two alarm tokens you make a little bit of noise you get your mate in a little bit of trouble and you go and bag yourself two infamy so you can see not usually in the best interests of the team cut in pick pocket go and help yourself to one of your mates but items of loot so you randomly draw some loot often so slightly naughty steal the kill and look out so there's some really great fun little things that you've done some spice I think these are the cards that decide whether if you're playing with your you know your partner or your kids it's a bit of a lighthearted fun if you're playing with your mates it's absolutely the chance to knife them really badly in the back and get them very very upset with you so if you're a serious gaming group this is where the real spice a lot of hilarity comes in and you know some real back stabbing where you're stealing items off them so that you win the game similarly you can also just have them as a bit of fun and turn them up or turn them down if you're the keep master you'll be running off these defender cards when you're setting up which people which elves or from the elves menagerie are you going to be fighting against that comes out here so each game again it will say this time you're going to be fighting against you know juvenile dragons or the glades stalkers so that gives you the stats that you need for your defenders and then in here you've got keep cards what the keep cards mean is that you can't just do the same actions all the time you'll be playing things in the villain phase play this card when a villain opens the door until an explored room before setting up the room up and it adds a single generic obstacle to the contents of the room or whatever else it is so this is where you can use your keep cards to affect the scenario and affect what you're doing as the keep master and that keeps it fresh okay it keeps it interesting and means that the keep masters engaged in the play as well trying to act and react the other deck we have is the cards that you're going to use if you're going to be playing with no keep master so we call this the unseen master on page 54 that allows you to just all play as a group i think good fun if you're playing with the kids or you're all getting to learn you want to play together you don't want to be playing against is a good way of being able to coach and here you just got a few different cards defense strategy cards so it tells the who who who's going to attack what closest to villain entry before any defenders are activated add three alarm tokens to the defense pool so you can see it's just giving you the instructions and what to do and then these are your alarm cards and what those effects are going to have really great way of playing as a as a family as a group and when you don't want to be having to play versus play a bit that expansion's in the base game allows you to take it on play go to the ai and last but by no means least what do we have last at the box of course we have the miniatures no mounted game would be a mounted game without the minis on the big tray you've got your villains i think you want to say heroes you've got your villains you've got your vampire s and your priest hunter and your twilight kin and racking and you've also got some dracons and an alvin dracon lord so wonderful minis really brings the whole game to life with the 3d visuals lovely stuff bouncing around and then on top of that i've also got the extra box of lots and lots more minis um the dice that we explained earlier white dice basic orange dice a little bit better purple dice totally kick ass so the chances of getting hits and blanks and then the yellow dice is every time you've done an action you know at the end when you've killed somebody do you get loot what did you raise the alarm and then i know you're always there that plays there a couple more heroes you've got your abyssal dwarf gun slinger and goblin assassin so there's your villains there's your pack of six villains there i'm sure there'll be beautiful pictures of those working across the screen right now and then you've got your other defenders so lots of spearmen herders little lynx cats some baby dracons and uh you know elves will be completely without an elven archer and some tree herders you've got a couple of bags of those three bags of those actually three three spearmen three archers six dracons these cats so there's all your minions and to go alongside your big dragon and your real dragon lord you've got a big elven cat and then these are the hero cards that we were looking at earlier so you've got for example your as the minions you've got your master hunter your saber tooth lynx and as we saw a second ago an adult dragon dragon hunter and of course coming out probably last but by certainly my only least of course you've got your elven lord on dragon you can guess when you're going to meet those on the adventure so there we are that is the contents of the leave room free box the the dungeon crawler where it pays to be bad and great fun really series of evenings linked together a lot of fun a lot of giggles you'll see that on some of the gameplay videos if you watch those please dive in but box full of toy soldiers box full of board game all the scenario is laid out and available at manticgames.com had it all good local gaming stores somewhere near you sometime from next week thanks for watching there's loads more coverage all over the mantic website at the moment on our blog so please feel free to dive in any questions ask away if you backed thank you very much if not pop on out there and pick it up