Shasn Presidential Edition

Description

SHASN is a political strategy board game where every player takes on the role of a politician in the midst of a political campaign. With each turn, players must draw an Ideology Card and take stands on divisive and urgent political issues. These choices will help them gather resources to influence voters or purchase strategic powers. Players can build diverse Ideologies with every policy decision, to best reflect their beliefs and play style. As they progress in the game, players must choose between sticking to their ideals or molding them as per their needs. In a game of trading, coercion, and strategy, players must do whatever it takes to survive and dominate.

The map is split into 9 zones with each zone having a different voter-count required to form a majority. The player with the highest majority votes – when all majorities are formed – wins the game. To influence voters, players will need unique combinations of the four resources at their disposal – (campaign) Funds, Media (attention), (public) Trust and (street) Clout. At the beginning of their turn, each player must answer an Ideology Card. Every answer on an Ideology Card belongs to one Ideologue. There are four Ideologues in the game – The Capitalist, The Showstopper, The Supremo, and The Idealist. As players collect more cards belonging to one Ideologue, they will unlock new powers that can help them cement their own positions or destabilize opponents.

Players must constantly juggle with the trade-off of giving answers that grant them the resources they need in that moment or investing in long term strategy with answers that strengthen their Ideologies to unlock greater combos later in the game.

Players must also navigate the effects of Headlines (triggered by placing Vters in volatile zones) and Conspiracy Cards (which can be purchased at any time in the game), providing them with a wide toolset to seize power or throw a spanner in the works of a rival.

Placing you in the shoes of a politician, the gameplay is often aggressive, action-packed and laden with long-term strategy building

Additional Game Content & Campaigns

• Rome 40 BCE Campaign Deck: (“Fall of the Republic”) with extra ideology, conspiracy, and headline cards.
• Earth 2040 Campaign Deck: (“The Future of Humanity”) sci-fi/speculative political scenario.

Regional Campaigns:

• USA 2020 and India 2020 campaign modules.Scenario Book: Narrative scenarios with custom setup rules and variable difficulties.

Component & Card Upgrades

• 540 Extra Ideology Cards
• 100 Extra Conspiracy Cards
• 100 Extra Headline Cards
• 13 Elite Cards & 12 Cost of Victory Cards
• Play Mat for enhanced table layout
• 5 Cloth Bags featuring custom faction symbols