Ancient Incas
Quick gameplay tips
- As the Ancient Incas, you sculpt the very battlefield to your benefit! You specialise in actions that strengthen your presence on a base, whether that be through raw power or utility like card draw and movement.
- The Incas are also very good at redistributing their actions, through cards like Golden Condor and Ashlar Masonry, allowing you to rebuild at those key bases where your input is most inconvenient.
- As the Incas, you have lots of tutor cards for on-base actions! Use these wisely to get valuable combo pieces, and then go all out with some serious renovations!
Gameplay
Smash Up didn't have nearly enough terraced farms until now...
The Incan Empire was known for its advanced engineering techniques, and that carries on into their Smash Up incarnation. They specialise in bringing ingenious modifications to bases, fortifying their defences and gathering valuable knowledge in the meantime. The Incan gameplan is setting up a load of actions on critical base, while using their strong card draw to search for powerful combo pieces to bring each base to its limit. Armory is the main power unit of the Incas, giving +2 power for each other action at that base which can add up surprisingly quickly. Perhaps the Incas main strength (and what separates them from the other play-on-base factions) is how easily they can shift around their actions on said bases. Golden Condor especially lets them replay ALL of their currently played actions in a single turn, which can get quite silly really. Llama lets them return an action on a base to their hand and then replay it on another base, allowing them to easily pivot to critical bases if they need to. Temple of the Sun and Incan Engineer provide some strong card draw, useful for finding critical combo pieces as quick as possible. The Ancient Incas main struggle is in preventing enemy sabotage, they've got no way to prevent opponents from destroying their carefully built actions or taking out their key minions, and they similarly lack a way to disrupt their plans. To compensate, they've got a fairly reliable way of increasing their minion's power through Fortress Walls, and Quipu Strings lets them recall a discarded on-base action if it gets taken out too early.