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Welcome to the biggest sport of the future – GIANT KILLER ROBOTS : HEAVY HITTERS!
GKR: HEAVY HITTERS is an advertising-driven, televised combat sport where mega corporations fight for lucrative salvage rights and advertising dominance in Earth’s abandoned cities. But more importantly, they need you! Your skills as a pilot and tactician are needed to win, gaining your Faction more fans, and more importantly, loyal consumers.
You will be piloting a Heavy Hitter, the name given to the largest fighting mechs in the battle zone. Flanking your Heavy Hitter in these high stakes sport matches are 3 unmanned robotic support units, consisting of Combat, Repair and Recon. Fighting head-to-head using your Heavy Hitter, you control your entire team of GKRs, strategizing your way to victory. Any dumb mech-jockey can shoot, but can you STRAT? Guess we’re gonna find out!
GKR: Heavy Hitters - A new boardgame set in the world of Giant killer Robots!
The solo rules are included in the updated rulebook which comes with the game.
Contents:
4 x Giant Heavy Hitters (139mm)
12 x Support Units (47mm)
10 x Buildings
317 x Cards
1 x Unique Hex-based Gameboard
8 x Pilots & Achievements Boards
4 x Energy Tracker Tokens & Dashboards
80 x Holo-board Tags
2 x Attack Dice
8 x Defense Dice
1 x Glory Hound Token
- wonderful cutthroat game with a lot of action mixed in with thoughtful planning and maneuvering
- has a lot of the strengths of a good miniatures skirmish game But with more accessible and friendly rules
- looks wonderful on the table and the pre painted figures are of a very high standard
- the giant killer robots they look really good and you just feel like you are piloting a giant death machine
- Lining up flanking shots of your massive laser cannon is just great fun
- game is not cheap
- bound to get a lot more content
- exceptionally cut throat and very easy for someone to be ganged up on
- people who do not enjoy high levels of player conflict should avoid this
- mega-corporations put on spectacles of giant killer robots fighting each other
- dystopian future
- King of Tokyo
- War Machine
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — tagging buildings in the game games you sponsor cards which are powerful one-off abilities.
- card management — each player has a set of cards of represent the abilities they can use. cards also represent your heavy hitters health pool.
- competitive — players play against each other either in an all on all Melee or in teams.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Hello and welcome to GKR heavy hitters
- it is a game for two to four players
- playing time is approximately two to three hours (shorter with more experience)
- This is a moderately complex game
- in a dystopian future mega-corporations put on spectacles of giant killer robots fighting each other to act as the bread and roses for the common people.
- each player is a pilot representing one of these sinister mega corporations and piloting a heavy hitter into the arena.
- Only one team can win and a lot of collateral damage is expected.
- When you take damage you must discard cards and once you run out of cards you are defeated
- Secondly you can win by being the first player to demolish four buildings in the game
References (from this video)
- Excellent table presence with 3D city board
- Pre-painted miniatures look exceptional
- Great competitive combat game
- Fun theme with movie-like sponsorship bonuses
- Quality component production
- Giant killer robots competing in televised combat
- Future where cities are demolished for sport
- Commercial entertainment backdrop
- The Hunger Games
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 3D City Destruction — Physical 3D buildings on board are destroyed during gameplay
- Competitive Victory — Last robot standing or reaching point threshold wins
- Robot Control — Each team controls one giant robot competing in arena combat
- Sponsorship System — Players receive bonuses from sponsors during play
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- if you enjoy deck combat games like like Magic the Gathering or anything like that but you don't want the effort of building your own custom deck each time and you just want to kind of level the playing field try out key Forge
- tapestry is one of the newer games on the list and honestly it made it on the list as soon as I played it
- I love the theme I loved having these giant robots going through this 3d city the table presence is amazing
- it's like reverse settlers of catan because basically you're the spirits of these of the island
- we have yet to lose but it always feels like you're gonna lose it's always one of those like it starts off well we're doing great then all things are going really bad
- the story in this game is just amazing
- anything these two do you tell Ian is just gold
- we're getting into the part of the list where like every game is my favorite
- do not judge a game by its box cover
- I'll play mysterium any time of the day