Boardgames

20 Strong: Tainted Grail

Craft a flexible hero through tactical combat, shifting enemies, and card-driven combos before an eight-turn race to a brutal boss fight.

60
minutes

1 - 1
player(s)

Medium

20 Strong: Tainted Grail board game cover

About this expansion

20 Strong: Tainted Grail is a solo board game for 1 player, designed to be played in about 60 minutes. In each game, you choose your path as you face four enemy types, each offering a different difficulty level and different rewards.

Combat challenges you to build a well-rounded hero while managing a dial that severely limits the dice you can apply to enemies. Combos are critical, and combat cards can unlock additional options when the available dice are not enough.

The combination of deck-building and combat cards changes your strategy every time you engage an enemy. You must decide when to commit to a battle, when to shift toward another foe, and how to develop your hero for the confrontation ahead.

  • Choose between four enemy types with distinct difficulty levels and rewards.
  • Use combat cards to overcome restrictions on the dice you can apply.
  • Set aside unwanted enemies in the Menhir Stack to scout further down an enemy deck.
  • Prepare for a final boss after eight turns.

If you do not want to face a particular enemy, or you are looking for a different one further down its deck, cast it aside into the Menhir Stack at the end of an engagement. This choice can help shape your route, but the discarded enemies are not gone forever.

After eight turns, an extremely difficult boss enters the fight, bringing one or more Menhir Stack minions along with it. Defeat the boss to win. With its tactical dice restrictions, evolving card combinations, and escalating endgame, 20 Strong: Tainted Grail challenges you to make every engagement count.