I will admit that in my first game, I got absolutely pasted playing this faction. Of course, the unique spin for this faction is their cannibalize ability. No modules in this army, but plenty of battle tokens.Р”Р„nd that trend continues with the Troglodytes. IРІР‚в„ўve lost track of how many expansion armies weРІР‚в„ўve seen for Neuroshima Hex, but I have a lot of them and IРІР‚в„ўve never failed to be impressed with how clever they always are. ItРІР‚в„ўs always a little hard reviewing expansions for Neuorhsima Hex, because unless the expansion is unbalanced, or drastically different than a standard army (IРІР‚в„ўm looking at you Dancer), you know what you are going to get-a new and unique way to play the game. Some units will have the ability to cannibalize adjacent allies. This opens up some interesting tactical opportunities. The ranged attacks are actually throwers, which can attack only one tile away, but from the point of the thrower, rather than a flat side. Other than that, youРІР‚в„ўll find mostly melee attackers with two unique tiles that can perform ranged attacks. The other one lets the player cannibalize an adjacent enemy unit! Their two special tiles are Avalanche: which inflicts one wound on hexes bordering one side of the map. They also donРІР‚в„ўt feature any modules, instead having a ton of units and 7 battle tiles. A unit with this ability can destroy an adjacent, friendly unit to give themselves a boost: increasing their initiate or strength by one. So whatРІР‚в„ўs the unique feature of the Troglodytes? Cannibalism. Portal Games is never content to just slap on a new theme onto an existing army and call it a day. New armies for Neuorshima Hex always do something unique.

But instead of being big green monsters, itРІР‚в„ўs actually a faction of cannibals that descend down from the north when the frost arrives. At first, I thought that this was going to be a cross over army from PortalРІР‚в„ўs other game, Cry Havoc. And IРІР‚в„ўm always down to check out a new army for this great dueling game. But, as I own Neuroshima Hex and not that one, I was happy to see that was not the case. I figured with the release of Monolith Arena, Portal Games would be focusing on that game instead. I was a little surprised to see a new Neuroshima Hex army come across my review stack.

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