Nemesis: Retaliation – Sangrevores Expansion Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Sangrevores Are Intruders
• Components
  • Standard-Sized Cards
  • Small Cards
  • Other
  • Tokens
  • Models
• Setup
  • Intruder Setup
  • Additional Setup
• Main Rules
  • Movement
  • Shadow Markers
  • Movement Sequence
  • Exploration Sequence
  • Shadow Cards
• Intruders
• Infections
  • Gaining Infections
  • Rest
• Tainted Blood
  • Gaining Tainted Blood
• End of the Game

Sangrevores Are Intruders

When using this expansion, consider the terms Intruder (Intruder icon) and Sangrevore as being equivalent.

Components

Standard-Sized Cards

• 13 Tainted Blood cards
• 18 Infection cards
• 20 Sangrevore Attack cards
• 12 Sangrevore Exploration cards
• 20 Sangrevore Event cards
• 13 Shadow cards

The card faces shown in the component illustrations are not transcribed; only the printed component names and counts are.

Small Cards

• 12 Sangrevore King Health cards

Other

• 1 Sangrevore Help sheet

Tokens

• 33 Sangrevore tokens

Models

• 1 King
• 8 Blood Specters in 4 poses
• 36 Ghouls in 6 poses

Setup

The Sections Setup, Remaining Components Setup, and the Player Setup are performed using the base rulebook – they remain the same.

Only the Intruder Setup is resolved using this rulebook.

Intruder Setup

1. Take the Sangrevore Exploration deck, shuffle it and place it face down. Leave space for a discard pile.

2. Take all Sangrevore Intruder tokens and separate them into piles by their Intruder type. Shuffle each pile separately and place it model icon side up.

3. Take the Intruder bag and place the following inside:

   • 1 Blank token
   • 2 Blood Specter tokens
   • 3 random Ghoul tokens
   • 1 additional random Ghoul token for each Character taking part in the game

   Place the bag by the remaining Intruder token piles.

4. Take all Sangrevore models and place them nearby.

5. Take the Sangrevore Attack and the Sangrevore Event decks, shuffle them separately, and place them face down. Leave space for their discard piles.

6. Shuffle all Sangrevore King Health cards and place them numbers-side down, on the Queen Health cards space of the Section "C" border piece. Place a Universal marker on the "0" space of the Queen's Hits track.

7. Take the Sangrevore Help sheet and place it with "The King is Alive" side up near the bag.

As printed, steps 6 and the Hits track refer to the "Queen". In this expansion the King is the Queen equivalent.

Additional Setup

1. Take the Shadow deck, shuffle it and place it face down near the Exploration deck. Leave space for a discard pile.
2. Take the Infection deck, shuffle it and place it on the right side of the Facility instead of a Contamination deck. The Shadow deck replaces the Contamination deck in this expansion.
3. Take the Tainted Blood deck, shuffle it and place it near the Serious Wound deck.

Main Rules

Movement

Movement is the main change in this Expansion. Characters follow a slightly modified Movement sequence – most importantly NOT making Noise rolls after movement.

Additionally, Noise markers are rethemed into Shadow markers with their own rules.

Shadow Markers

Noise markers in Sangrevores are called Shadow markers and they use the same component. Shadow markers represent Sangrevores lurking in the dark and setting up traps.

SHADOW MARKERS ARE (Shadow marker icon)

Any effects (on Items, Rooms, etc.) that interact with (Shadow marker icon) can apply to Shadow markers.

Shadow markers are resolved differently and follow a few important changes:

1. There may only be up to 3 Shadow markers in any Corridor.

   SHADOW MARKERS LIMIT

   If, at any point, you would place a 4th (and any further) Shadow marker in a Corridor, instead replace them all with 1 Blood Specter.

2. Shadow markers and Intruders may exist in the same Corridor. Shadow markers (regardless of their number) take 1 space in the Corridor, leaving 5 for Intruders.

   For Example: In a Corridor there may be the King (taking 4 spaces), 2 Shadow markers (taking 1 space) and a Ghoul (taking 1 space). At that point there is not enough space for any other entity.

A Character may interact with Shadow markers in 3 ways:

• They may Move through them – and resolve them as a result – see Movement Sequence.
• They may Move Cautiously through them – without resolving them. Shadow markers are then left in the Corridor without any effect.
• They may Burst at them (and/or apply Hits to them in other ways) – removing them from the map with no consequences, but wasting precious ammo.

Movement Sequence

The Movement Sequence is slightly modified accounting for the existence of Shadow markers. Each Hit in a Corridor may be applied to any 1 Shadow marker, removing it in the process. Grayed out text denotes rules unchanged between the standard version of the game.

Steps 1, 2 and 3b below are the unchanged base-game steps; the original prints them grayed out.

STEPS

1. Choose Direction – Choose an adjacent Corridor your Character is going to Move through.
2. Resolve Opportunity Attacks – If there are any Intruders in the same Room as the Character OR in the Corridor the Character wants to Move through, resolve an Intruder Attack for each Intruder starting with the largest Intruders (but no more than 3 Attacks).
3. See the impact of your Movement:
   • a. If you are Moving to an already Discovered Room:
     • Move your Character there.
     • If you are Moving Cautiously place a Secure token there.
     • Do NOT make a Noise roll and instead place 1 Shadow marker in each Corridor adjacent to your new Room, except the Corridor you have just Moved through.
   • b. If you are Moving through an Unexplored Corridor to an Undiscovered Room, resolve the Exploration Sequence.
4. If you have Moved through any number of Shadow markers – Draw 1 random Shadow card and resolve it according to the number of Shadow markers you have moved through, discarding the markers in the process. Then, discard the Shadow card. Ignore this step if you have Moved Cautiously.

Exploration Sequence

Exploration cards are resolved largely the same, but feature Shadow markers in Corridors instead of Noise markers.

Whenever an Exploration card shows a number of markers in the Corridor, place that many Shadow markers there, but never place Shadow markers in the Corridor you have just Moved through.

Shadow Cards

Shadow markers are resolved through Shadow cards. Shadow cards always have 3 different effects depending on the number of Shadow markers resolved. Whenever a Shadow card is resolved, look at the number of Shadow tokens the Character has moved through and resolve the appropriate effect on the card.

Example Shadow card, "Adrenaline Boost":

• 1 (Shadow marker icon): Draw 1 Action card.
• 2 (Shadow marker icon): Draw 1 Action card. Place 2 Ghouls in the Corridor.
• 3 (Shadow marker icon): Draw 1 Action card. Resolve (yellow swirl icon).
• Remove this card from the game.

They may also feature an additional effect that is resolved regardless of the number of Shadow markers.

After resolving a Shadow card, discard it to its own discard pile (unless it was instructed to be removed from the game).

EMPTY SHADOW DECK

If a Shadow card should be drawn and the Shadow deck is empty, take all discarded Shadow cards, reshuffle them, form a new Shadow deck, and draw the required card.

Intruders

The race of Sangrevores follow the same hierarchy as standard Intruders, but does not feature Larvae.

• King
• Specter
• Ghoul

Ghouls are Adult Sangrevores, Blood Specters are Drones, and the King is the Queen equivalent.

Even though Sangrevore Intruders do not come with rules changes, they feature new Attack patterns and Events.

Infections

Infection cards are one of the possible results of being attacked by Sangrevores. Very rarely as a result of being bitten by Ghouls, but more frequently when coming in contact with Blood Specters and the King.

Example Infection card, "Terrifying Audience":

• When you Pass: You may lose 1 Health to discard all Infection cards in your hand.
• "The King awaits you. Accept the escort."
• A [Character icon] of your choice in your Room resolves (yellow swirl icon).
• Return this card to the Infection deck.

At the End of the Game, Infections are used in the Eclosion Procedure, instead of Contamination cards.

Infections are counted as Contaminations cards for effects that allow to remove or discard Contamination cards from the deck/hand.

During the game Characters may, if they wish:

• Play Infections for their bottom effect in order to remove them from their deck – this counts as an Action.
• Discard Infections onto the Character's discard pile when Passing, losing 1 Health in the process (regardless of the number of Infections discarded).

Infections CANNOT be discarded from hand freely in other ways, and cannot be discarded to pay a cost of another Action.

Gaining Infections

When gained, Infection cards are always shuffled into the Action deck. The discard pile is not shuffled into the deck at this point.

Rest

Rest Action cards may be played to discard any number of Infection cards from hand into the discard pile without any additional cost.

Tainted Blood

Infection is not the only thing that can be gained as a result of coming in contact with Sangrevores. Sangrevores may also leave Characters with a gift, called Tainted Blood, which allows you to control special Abilities.

Tainted Blood cards feature additonal Abilities that may be used once per Round. They always have a cost and count as an Action.

Gaining Tainted Blood

Whenever a Character gains a Tainted Blood card, they place it face up near their Character board as the Active Tainted Blood.

If they had at least 1 Tainted Blood card already, they must choose between the 2 Tainted Bloods which to keep as the Active one. The Active Tainted Blood is kept face up, while the Inactive Tainted Blood is placed on the bottom of the Active one.

Non-active Tainted Blood cards cannot be used for their Ability, but may be discarded as a result of Sangrevore Attacks. When instructed to discard a Tainted Blood card always discard the very bottom Tainted Blood card (which sometimes may be the Active one).

Example Tainted Blood card, "Familiar Scent":

• "The monstrosities and nightmares recognize me as their own... it feels right."
• Action (discard 1 Action card): Flip this card to Move. During that Movement, Prevent all Ghoul Attacks.

End of the Game

The End of the Game sequence is modified in the Sangrevores expansion.

At the end of the game Characters who are still alive, and have Escaped/Hibernated perform the following sequence in order:

1. Each Character with any Infection cards (in the deck, hand, or discard pile) – Performs the Eclosion Procedure treating Infection cards as Contamination cards. A Character dies if they draw an Infection card during that Eclosion Procedure.

2. Each Character who is still alive – Reveals and checks their Objective.

   Note: If a Character has not chosen an Objective until that point, they simply do so now (before other players reveal their Objectives).

3. Each remaining Character who succeeded in completing their Objective wins the game!