The carousel
Since Set 18The carousel is back. It was gone for the set you last played; it is in the game again now.
Catch up on the new set
Learn what changed using the sets you already played as your reference.
2Changes to the game
1Things that changed
This is the update from the last set only
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How the game works now
2Start here. These are changes to the game itself, not to this set, so they apply to every board you build.
Targeting after crowd control
Since Set 18A unit used to pick a new target after recovering from crowd control, and it picked the nearest enemy. It now keeps the target it already had.
How much of this guide speaks your language
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Economy and tempo
1Wisps
✨ New to youSet 18's mechanic. A wisp sits in your shop covering the unit behind it, and you can only buy one during the planning phase; once combat starts it is removed and the unit underneath is revealed. Wisps appear in alternating shops, and there are seven kinds, each with its own colour and icon: Champion, Combat, Diversity, Shop, Gold/EXP, Risk and Item. The icon shows next to the tactician health bar of whoever bought it. After stage 5, one in every two wisps is a Combat wisp. The part that changes how you play: a wisp occupies a shop slot, so buying it frees that slot for the next roll. If you are about to roll down, buy the wisp whatever it is. Across every two rolls you skip one, you are throwing away about ten percent of what your gold could have shown you.
Nothing in the sets you played is a close comparison, so here it is from scratch.