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Commissioned

Game ID: GID0073668
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Year
2016
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Description

Commissioned is a 2-6 player cooperative-style board game with a simple deck-building mechanism that plays in 1 hour. Players are the early Christian Apostles and must work together to mature their faith decks, grow the church, collect the books of the New Testament, and overcome persecution. You do not need to know anything about Christianity to play. The game includes five scenarios that cover the first 150 years of church history, two difficulty levels, and a one-vs-all variation.

Description

Commissioned is a 2-6 player cooperative-style board game with a simple deck-building mechanism that plays in 1 hour. Players are the early Christian Apostles and must work together to mature their faith decks, grow the church, collect the books of the New Testament, and overcome persecution. You do not need to know anything about Christianity to play. The game includes five scenarios that cover the first 150 years of church history, two difficulty levels, and a one-vs-all variation.

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Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 0 · neu 1 · neg 0
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Video 42B2ThAtJQs Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 4:40 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Good co-op deck building game.
  • Enjoyed playing it, would ask for it again.
  • Historical theme is neat and educational.
  • Fairly straightforward to set up.
  • The picking of cards and Elder mechanic brings strategy.
  • Components are good quality.
  • Theme is not overbearing and not offensive.
Cons
  • Might not be in collection, but would play again.
  • Trial deck does not create much anxiety.
  • Map gets crowded, requiring careful management of cubes and movement.
  • Lack of strong deck-clearing mechanics.
  • Not sure if they would add it to their collection without more scenarios or expansions.
Thematic elements
  • Early Apostles spreading the word of Christianity
  • Early centuries, Middle Eastern region
Comparison games
  • Fields of Yl
  • Ascension
  • Legendary
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • action selection — Players select cards for the Elder to choose actions from, contributing to the overall strategy.
  • area control / influence — Players place cubes and missionaries on the board to grow churches and spread their influence.
  • cooperative play — Players work together to accomplish tasks and overcome trials and persecution.
  • Deck Building — Players buy cards to add to their deck, which is essential for strengthening it over time.
  • Dice Rolling (Message Die) — A message die can be rolled to introduce communication challenges or losses.
  • Elder (Rotating Player Role) — One player takes on the role of Elder, making decisions based on cards played by other players.
  • Movement — Two types of movement exist: fellowship move and mission move, used to spread to new regions and set up churches.
  • scenario based — Players play through one of five scenarios, each with specific tasks to accomplish.
  • Set Collection — A goal in some scenarios is to collect all the books of the New Testament.
  • timer deck — A trial deck acts as a built-in game clock; players lose if it runs out.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • you've got to get used to them but what game doesn't have icons you got to get used to
  • It's not a deck builder unless you're buying other cards to put in your deck plain and simple
  • The GM makes the game there's no doubt about it. A good GM will definitely engross you, take I mean he'll bring you into the story and he will make your experience memorable and want you to come back
  • I believe business partners who provide services and Investments that we value relative to others who do not should receive proportional compensation from us so that they may succeed and continue in such activities in comparison to for example the online channel of sales.
  • online people don't bring in new people into the hobby because they don't have a way to test it they don't have a way to play it
  • I don't see how you can say that somebody the whole gist was that if you buy a game discounted for $75 it will have less value to you than if you bought up for a 100 personally I don't work that way at all
  • We're not pen and paper and so they have these nice apps for tracking their stats and everything
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Video k5rABLKEiUM The Dice Tower Other at 7:24 sentiment: neutral
video_pk 81546 · mention_pk 203175
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
  • Did not make radar
  • Don't remember playing it
Thematic elements
  • Christian
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Hens is a game I didn't like at all.
  • Gobblet is a simple game in which you are to stacking pieces and trying to get four in a row, but bigger pieces cover up other pieces.
  • Dice as resources to buy cards, kind of like a Dominion-style game. And it was fine. It just didn't have any kind of air of excitement to it.
  • And it's a big, grandiose Euro-style game that I thought worked pretty well.
  • The biggest problem with Echoes of Time is I think it's almost too short.
  • It's a cool mechanism. This is the game that should have it.
  • It's a very different feeling of Lost Cities. It's not as good as Lost Cities, but it's still pretty cool game.
  • It's very Ameritrashy.
  • It's a lot going on in this game.
  • I think my favorite of those is Pixel Tactics 2.
  • Thanks as always for joining me in my pile of mid games.
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