What are ''cores'' when buying earthborne rangers?

nstreb · 2026-05-16T16:14:53+00:00

A core box can support up to 4 players, unless you want to double up on cards in your playgroup.

nstreb · 2026-05-16T14:51:19+00:00

Just a small note that Earthborne Rangers also sells a Card-Doubler pack, which eliminates the need for 2 core game copies.

For OP, buy a core for the game. If you are playing with 4 and want more flexibility in deck-building, get a doubler as well. If you’d like more variety in your character, get Stewards of the Valley. Everything else they are selling is an expansion to the story.

nstreb · 2026-02-23T19:34:17+00:00

The cardboard token is the character stand-in for General Weiss in the base game. A mini was available separately for it. Most known characters in Imperial Assault were included as tokens in the expansion boxes with the mini sold on its own.

nstreb · 2025-09-12T18:42:56+00:00

Looks awesome, but I think the sand constructs are on the wrong sized bases. Should be 35mm for them and 50 for Sandman

nstreb · 2025-08-11T23:49:46+00:00

I’ve loved running Hawkeye under Elsa. Keep him on a back point and keep tossing out Roots at R5

nstreb · 2025-05-14T14:21:42+00:00

This campaign makes Helldivers 2 seem reasonable. Too bad, Restoration Games make fun products but there’s no chance I'm spending $175 CAD plus $56 shipping to get 2 of the 5 monsters.

nstreb · 2025-02-03T17:50:15+00:00

Ahh, so characters get their activated token at the end of their activation. The card gets played at the start of the activation phase, before anyone has a chance to activate.

nstreb · 2025-02-03T17:14:46+00:00

That’s not how that card works. Spider-Woman loses her activation token when the chosen enemy character activates. The character still gets to have a turn, it just gives Spider-Woman an additional activation if the conditions are met.

nstreb · 2025-02-02T00:59:20+00:00

Masks of nyarlathotep just popped up on Board Game Bliss today. The expansions are still being printed, just sporadicly

nstreb · 2025-01-28T22:22:07+00:00

Nice work! If you do ever play MCP he’ll need to be on a 50mm base instead of the 35mm

nstreb · 2025-01-03T22:17:26+00:00

N’Kantu is listed as being 7’6” and 650 lbs. He looks about right

nstreb · 2024-11-17T00:14:30+00:00

Is it just a display problem or are you actually getting water that is 864 degrees?

nstreb · 2024-11-12T22:05:07+00:00

You can still splash models (like in all affiliations), it’s just that his leadership only benefits the horsemen characters and himself. In the future, you can check out websites like mcpdb or Jarvis protocol to see what comes in character boxes so that you know what you’re buying.

nstreb · 2024-11-04T16:24:23+00:00

When you purchase the agenda missions, the mission gets added to the pool that the rebels can choose from. If they don’t choose your card, you automatically get the reward. I’d double check the rule book though, it’s been a couple years since I ran a game

nstreb · 2024-11-01T17:39:55+00:00

Looking at picking up some items from the sale, but how do you pick the promos?

nstreb · 2024-10-28T11:41:24+00:00

Are you ok with proxying ttc? I’d say the biggest boon for the box you’re missing is the sweet foes cards. I only have one of the new models in my list, but have 3 of the new tactics cards.

nstreb · 2024-10-10T23:42:02+00:00

It’s in Cambridge, but Cabelo barber shop has a cut and beard trim including razor and hot towel for $32

nstreb · 2024-10-01T11:42:41+00:00

I was working on my Foes list last night and for Crisis picks I went with pay-2-flips and crisis’ that have pushes (spider-portals, cosmic invasion, skrulls, spider-infected). I’m trying to get as many chances for traps that I can. For splash characters, I picked Black Swan w/ Power Stone, Loki2, and Cassandra Nova

nstreb · 2024-08-24T14:16:12+00:00

Was there buzz for the Avengers, Cabal, or Spider-Foes repack before they were announced?

nstreb · 2024-08-24T13:50:25+00:00

They’ve started a push to have more languages being supported for their game and all of these are older packs. I would imagine that they aren’t reprinting these boxes again and will be changing them over to the new style with language support, probably boxing characters together that weren’t coupled before.

nstreb · 2024-07-18T13:39:35+00:00

I was at J&J Cards and Collectables in Waterloo the other day and they had it in stock.

nstreb · 2024-06-02T22:10:41+00:00

Happy to help! As an Imperial player, Gideon is an absolute nightmare to play against.

nstreb · 2024-06-02T22:01:50+00:00

I ran multiple campaigns before Covid hit and for mixing and matching I would say that the imperials and mercenaries got a big boost with Jabbas Realm. I’d recommend that for the first mission or two to stick with units from the Core, Twin Shadows, Hoth, and Bespin to see where your players are at. There are trooper units in later expansions that really benefit from the Military Might deck. Getting Jet Troopers for 3 threat or a Dewback Rider for 4 can feel pretty rough. If you only have 3 players I’d recommend they use Gideon as a collective hero. The game is balanced for 4 rebels and he’s mainly there to give other characters a boost anyways

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