Ironwood

Ironwood is a rules-light, highly asymmetrical, short-drive tactical game for 1-2 players. Each round, you and your opponent take turns playing a total of 3 of your faction-specific cards to perform their action effects. These effects include:

• Positioning your warbands
• Initiating battles
• Extracting crystals
• Granting temporary passive effects
• And much more!

When combat occurs, you use the same cards for their combat values, making a simultaneous bid to gain combat bonuses, inflict and avert losses, and increase the Dominance value of your warbands to win the battle.

Gameplay and Objectives

The two factions are completely asymmetrical in their playstyles, decks, and victory conditions – even in which parts of the map they can reach.

• Ironclad Commander: Your primary goal is to establish foundations for your forges in the outer mountains. Once you've collected enough crystals, you can build forges on these foundations.
• Woodwalkers Chieftain: Your mission is to locate your people's ancient totems through Vision cards, clear the way to them by defeating Ironclad warbands, and finally secure them in the outer forests, beyond the Ironclad's reach.

Once you have recovered the third totem as the Chieftain or built the third forge as the Commander, you immediately win the game.

Solo Mode and Challenges

Ironwood also features a low-maintenance solo mode against the Ironclad or Woodwalkers. While both solo opponents operate on the same main principles, they have unique aspects and features from their respective factions.