Warhammer: Invasion

Publication date	2009
Players	2
Age range	13 and up
Playing time	~ 1 hour
Random chance	Some
Skill(s) required	Card playing, Logic, Strategy

Warhammer: Invasion is a Living Card Game (LCG) (variant of collectible card game) designed by Eric M. Lang and produced by Fantasy Flight Games in 2009, set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe. Like Fantasy Flight's other LCGs, Invasion is sold as a core set, which can be played on its own, or built upon with expansion packs. Each pack has a fixed set of 3 copies each of 20 cards. There are six factions in Invasion: Dwarves, Empire, Orcs, Chaos, High Elves, and Dark Elves. The first four have decks in the core set, while the elves' decks are available in the Assault on Ulthuan expansion.

Each player has a board called a "capital", which is divided into 3 zones: Battlefield, Quest, and Kingdom. The Battlefield is the area where attacks are launched, Quest determines how many cards are drawn each turn, and Kingdom determines how many resources are gathered each turn. Resources are spent to play cards. Each unit has a power rating that adds to the zone they are played into. For example, a unit with a power of 2 would add 2 damage to attacks when played into the Battlefield, 2 additional resources per turn if played into the Kingdom, or 2 additional cards drawn if played into the Quest zone.

Each zone has a base defense of 8, which may be modified with cards. A zone's defense may be lowered by damaging it, usually by attacking from the Battlefield. Once a zone's defense is at or below zero, that zone is destroyed. (The player can still use it as normal, but it is marked with a "burning" token.) The player who succeeds at destroying at least two of their opponent's zones wins the game.

The Cataclysm expansion added a multiplayer mode to the game, and the Hidden Kingdoms expansion introduced four new factions, with their own capitals: Lizardmen, Wood Elves, Skaven, and Undead. Fantasy Flight has announced that Hidden Kingdoms will be the last expansion for the game.

List of Expansions

Battle Packs

Battle packs are released in "cycles" of six. Each pack contains three copies of 20 cards. (The Corruption Cycle, however, was printed under a different format, so each pack has three copies of 10 cards and one copy of 10 other cards.)

The Corruption Cycle

Expansion Name	Release Date
The Skavenblight Threat	November 2009
Path of the Zealot	December 2009
Tooth and Claw	February 2010
The Deathmaster's Dance	March 2010
The Warpstone Chronicles	April 2010
Arcane Fire	May 2010

The Enemy Cycle

Expansion Name	Release Date
The Burning of Derricksburg	June 2010
The Fall of Karak Grimaz	July 2010
The Silent Forge	September 2010
Redemption of a Mage	October 2010
The Fourth Waystone	November 2010
Bleeding Sun	December 2010

The Morrslieb Cycle

Expansion Name	Release Date
Omens of Ruin	March 2011
The Chaos Moon	March 2011
The Twin Tailed Comet	April 2011
Signs in the Stars	June 2011
The Eclipse of Hope	July 2011
Fiery Dawn	August 2011

The Capital Cycle

Expansion Name	Release Date
The Inevitable City	September 2011
Realm of the Phoenix King	November 2011
The Iron Rock	November 2011
Karaz-a-Karak	December 2011
City of Winter	Jan 2012
The Imperial Throne	Feb 2012

The Bloodquest Cycle

Expansion Name	Release Date
Rising Dawn	April 2012
Fragments of Power	May 2012
The Accursed Dead	June 2012
Vessel of the Winds	July 2012
Portent of Doom	August 2012
Shield of the Gods	September 2012

The Eternal War Cycle

Expansion Name	Release Date
Days of Blood	November 2012
Oaths of Vengeance	December 2012
Battle for the Old World	January 2013
Glory of Days Past	February 2013
The Ruinous Hordes	March 2013
Faith and Steel	April 2013

Deluxe Expansions

Deluxe expansions add new elements to the game, including new card types, rules, etc. All deluxe expansion provide three copies of each unique card, except for Assault on Ulthuan, which contains 1, 2, or 3 copies of each card, similar to the core set.

Expansion Name	Release Date
Assault on Ulthuan	2010
March of the Damned	2010
Legends	2011
Cataclysm	May 2013
Hidden Kingdoms	November 2013