Every card is placed with no shortage of tension as you wonder whether you’re over-dedicating to a fight, or spreading yourself too thin, or going after the wrong planets, or setting yourself up for a clever play that will rout your best units and hammer the rest with ranged attacks before the rest of your guys can even get in range to respond.īest of all, it’s fantastically simple. This forges Conquest’s central dichotomy: you need to spread out in order to win the economic game, but cluster around contested planets in order to win the actual game. Not only are they crucial to victory, as the first player to assemble a match-three of their icons wins, but they’re also one of your major sources of extra cards and resources. Moreover, these planets are important in more ways than one. There’s a strong sense of geography to the whole affair, especially if you’re playing as one of the factions that can jump between adjacent planets after being deployed. And of course, you’ve got plenty of troops to deploy and attachments to beef them up - after all, as Hemingway wrote near the end of his life, “The only thing better than a Goff Nob Ork is a Goff Nob Ork with a Rokkit Launcha.” You’ve got support locations for long-term bonuses, events that do pretty much anything, from wiping out entire stacks of units to blocking damage to blocking that previous blocking of damage.
You’re presented with a central row of locations to conquer - planets, in this case - and then you drop troops onto them, struggling back and forth with your opponent as you strive to be the first to claim them.įrom there, the differences become more pronounced, forcing us to discard the comparison altogether (which is probably fine with most people, since Omen is such a niche title). And really, although it’s now apparent they’re very different games, the broad strokes are largely the same. My interest in Conquest began when the very earliest teasers from Fantasy Flight Games made it look like a Warhammer 40,000-themed take on one of my all-time favorites, Omen: A Reign of War.
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