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04-20-2011, 01:44 AM
For those not in the know, it's a board game that cost a mint and has a crapton of pieces. A modular puzzle tile board, minis (zombies, robots) and a post apocalyptic setting. Scenario 1 was designed to teach moving and close combat as well as be a session of the game.
The NORAD forces has one lady was was in prisoner, and the (sp)Samelite faction (which I played) had 4 guys, a mad scientist, 2 zombies and a guy with a buzzsaw for a hand. Seriously. Oh, and the NORAD person had some help in the form of he played one figure from the Samelite faction which was a traitor and trying to free her. So it was his 1 figure to my 4 until he could free her from one of three rooms she "might" be in (I put a token upside down and 2 decoy tokens in the other rooms)
Combat was interesting, a mix of Heroscape with the "hit" markers and defense dice. There was a weird mechanic where you got to roll more dice depending on which side of the mini you had pointed at which side of their mini.
Also, you moved based on this cards you drew with different actions on them, each character card could activate and do one action on a action card (of which you had 5) for a certain amount of points or "CP"; like one card might have Move (3) and Close Combat (1), and it took 1 point to close combat and 3 to move..which moved you three spaces. I think. That's the first part I wasn't clear on, the exact amount you move.
The problem was, I had 10 of those "CP" tokens plus 2 extra each round as a bonus for one of the characters; and he had 10. Since each character could activate in each round (and then you could even re-use them once you did something with everyone once, including activating them and doing nothing), and each character had a max "CP" I could easily get two guys up in his face before he found the girl. Possibly he could have run better; I don't know the action tiles he got.
But it seemed like a pretty rough scenario for the one guy. Otherwise, interesting and I'm looking forward to finding out what else the game does. Anyone tried this one before who can maybe answer some questions?
The NORAD forces has one lady was was in prisoner, and the (sp)Samelite faction (which I played) had 4 guys, a mad scientist, 2 zombies and a guy with a buzzsaw for a hand. Seriously. Oh, and the NORAD person had some help in the form of he played one figure from the Samelite faction which was a traitor and trying to free her. So it was his 1 figure to my 4 until he could free her from one of three rooms she "might" be in (I put a token upside down and 2 decoy tokens in the other rooms)
Combat was interesting, a mix of Heroscape with the "hit" markers and defense dice. There was a weird mechanic where you got to roll more dice depending on which side of the mini you had pointed at which side of their mini.
Also, you moved based on this cards you drew with different actions on them, each character card could activate and do one action on a action card (of which you had 5) for a certain amount of points or "CP"; like one card might have Move (3) and Close Combat (1), and it took 1 point to close combat and 3 to move..which moved you three spaces. I think. That's the first part I wasn't clear on, the exact amount you move.
The problem was, I had 10 of those "CP" tokens plus 2 extra each round as a bonus for one of the characters; and he had 10. Since each character could activate in each round (and then you could even re-use them once you did something with everyone once, including activating them and doing nothing), and each character had a max "CP" I could easily get two guys up in his face before he found the girl. Possibly he could have run better; I don't know the action tiles he got.
But it seemed like a pretty rough scenario for the one guy. Otherwise, interesting and I'm looking forward to finding out what else the game does. Anyone tried this one before who can maybe answer some questions?