Maniacal: Board Game Plus Finale Promo (Kickstarter Special) Eagle Gryphon Games

Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 9.00
Players: 2 to 5
Published: 2021
Content Notes: Kickstarter Edition of Maniacal Board Game by Eagle Gryphon Games. Includes core game, “Annihilate the D.O.P.E. Squad Finale” Promo Card, and all unlocked stretch goals. Please note: unless otherwise stated paid add ons from the Kickstarter Campaign are not included.

Maniacal, formerly known as Infamous, is a strategy game in which 2-5 aspiring supervillains compete to become the most (in)famous in the world. Choose from one of five villains, each with unique abilities and weaknesses. First, build a secret base by drafting from over seventy different rooms, such as a Robotics Lab, Massage Parlor, or Torture Chamber. These rooms will attract a motley assortment of henchmen to your lair: Beasts, Criminals, Scientists, and Mystics. Want more brainy Scientists around? Build rooms that appeal to them (a Planetarium? or perhaps an Intrinsic Field Chamber?). In this way, each player will construct a unique secret base and recruit a unique crew of henchmen.

DESIGNER:
Hassan Lopez is the designer of the strategy board game, Clockwork Wars, also published by Eagle-Gryphon Games. He has a doctorate in neuroscience and is a professor and research scientist at Skidmore College. Hassan lives in upstate New York with his wife and two daughters.

ARTIST:
Born, raised and currently based in Lafayette, Louisiana, Rob Guillory is best known for his art on Image Comics, long-running series CHEW. Written by John Layman, the book has achieved much success, winning two Harvey Awards (including Best New Talent for Guillory) and two Eisner Awards (Best New Series in 2010 and Best Continuing Series in 2011). 

Then, assign your henchmen to evil contracts posted around the globe. Become a local warlord in Asia. Steal a nuclear warhead in Europe. Build a floating fortress of doom in South America! Time, however, is a critical resource. The farther away a contract is from your secret base, the more weeks you spend and the fewer contracts that you’ll complete in a round. Succeed at contracts to earn infamy and money. Fail, and your henchman might get injured, captured, or serendipitously gain a superpower.

Build your secret base, recruit henchmen, and complete as many missions as you can. Along the way, hire mercenaries, hatch schemes, and chastise your lackey. Do so, and the history books might remember you as the best of the worst!

-from the publisher

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