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Take on the role of 1 of 6 Women Warriors battling for their chance at immortality.
Dice Clash simulates the back and forth of a battle using a clever dice placement system that is simple to learn but offers tactical depth.
Players get unique Warriors with their own 9 space Battle Grids, 6 Black Dice, 2 White Dice, and a Red Die. The Dice form their Die Pool.
Turns consist of playing a single die from your die pool to one of the open spaces on your Battle Grid. The value of the die interacts with the space you play to determines the attack and defense value of your die. Players must defend with a value higher than their opponent's attack. But attacks of 6 or greater can be parried with a Defense of 1.
Playing white dice allows you to re-roll your remaining die pool. Your red die activates your unique Warrior power.
Play continues until a player loses because they can't respond to an attack. The loser flips their warrior and their grid to their damaged side where they have more powerful options for the next round. Play continues until one Warrior wins 2 Battles.
Dice Clash was inspired by and re-implements the dice placement system in Scuttleball by Crossbow Games (Jonathan and Ryan). Art is by Super Snipers artist, Hwa Siang.
—description frpm the publisher
- Shines well at solo or two player.
- Very easy to carry around, very portable.
- Travel solo friendly game.
- samurai battle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- AI Opponent — you are versing an AI opponent. The AI opponent is here. They have their matching battle grid.
- Basic Abilities — Um each of these have a basic ability as well, which will trigger when you use the red die.
- Dice Rolling — The value of the dice ends up being the attack value against the opponent.
- grid placement — You match it by icon. And then we also have our character samurai, which also has its own battle grid that matches its icon.
- Parry — So if you have a value of one, you can defend still. So it would mean it can defend or parry my six attack.
- White Dice Reroll — The purpose of using a white die um at any point when you place it that you reroll everything that's in your pool.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- So this is a very cool game.
- I think it shines well at solo or two player.
- And yeah, I think if you just want to play a quick kind of battle type game, this is probably the game for you.
- So kind of a little, you know, travel solo friendly game, which is something that I always look for when it comes to solo board gaming.