While empires rise and fall in Eastern Europa, the rest of the world takes notice. Two distant factions, Albion and Togawa, send emissaries to scout the land and employ their own distinct styles of conquering.
Components
This expansion to Scythe, Invaders from Afar, adds 2 new factions. Each faction contains the following:
- 5 miniatures
- 31 custom wooden tokens
- 1 faction mat
- 4 cardboard tokens
It also includes these components, which allow for Scythe to be played with as many as 7 players:
- 2 new player mats
- 2 Automa cards
- 1 custom plastic insert designed to fit into the expansion box or the original Scythe box.
- 2 cardboard tokens to replace the Wayfare and Meander abilities in 6-7 player games
- 1 rulebook
- 7 cardboard coins ($50)
Download the Invaders from Afar rulebook (many languages available) or download the extended achievement sheet (created by Rick Goodrow).
Media
- Watch It Played rules replacement video
- Man vs. Meeple video review
- Tantrum House unboxing video and review
- Analog Games article about the design process for the expansion
- Tom Vasel’s Dice Tower review
- The Cardboard Herald Review
- Bower’s Game Corner review
- Geeks Under Grace
- Father Geek
- Zatu Games
- Just Push Start
- Game Boy Geek
- Jon Alexson (and Instagram)
- Tabletop Gaming Guild (and Instagram)
- GrAlutka (Polish)
- Spellenwijs (Dutch)
- What Board Game
- The Boardgame Mechanics
- Tryb Solo (also English and Polish videos)
- Lotte Speelt (and Instagram)
- Gamingblog SpinLi
- Just Let Terence Explain It
- BeardandDice
- Legendary Tactics (how to play and reboxing)
The expansion works seamlessly with any version of Scythe (i.e., if you have special resource tokens, that’s fine–the expansion doesn’t have any resource tokens).
Originally the game was to be capped at 5 players, but I wanted to include 2 new player mats in the expansion. I realized that some people were going to use the mats to play 6-7 player games no matter the what the box says, so I needed to make sure the game worked for them! To scale up, the expansion includes alternate abilities for some of the original factions.
Invaders from Afar became available in November 2016. You can request it from your preferred retailer (stock code STM615). We’ll post teasers on BGG and the Scythe Facebook group.