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2018
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Description
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
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3 Minute Board Games Other at 1:32:00
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none
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Thematic elements
- Piloting heavy hitters into the arena, collateral damage is expected.
- Dystopian future where mega-corporations sponsor giant killer robot fights.
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3 Minute Board Games Top List at 10:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Beautiful pre-painted miniatures
- Fun and easy to teach
- Appeals to fans of giant mechs
- Good for casual play ('beer and pretzels')
Cons
- Can go on a little too long at four players
- Price and availability are barriers
Thematic elements
- Giant mechs fighting
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Mech combat — A competitive mech battling game.
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watch it played Analysis at 4:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- The mechs are outrageous and highly detailed.
- The components are personalized with custom paint.
- The game is a generous gift, showing significant effort from the giver.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- piloting giant mechs
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Component customization — Rob added custom details to the mechs and painted the bases and roofs of the buildings, personalizing the game's components.
- miniatures — The game includes pre-painted mechs, with additional custom painting done by Rob, and smaller mechs also received a wash and custom paint scheme.
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Quotes (from this video)
- hi everyone welcome to watch it played
- this is gonna be a news and updates video where i'm going to be unboxing a box i'm gonna be sharing some updates with you and i'm also gonna be testing up this new camera that i'm using right here
- so I'm sorry if you're looking at the channel and not seeing a lot of content like you normally would that content is being made it will get released probably all in a big storm of content all at once
- I'm gonna be spending most of my time during the dealer hall hours at the BoardGameGeek booth so swing by and say hello
- this is over at the Hyatt and you do need tickets to get in there it's generally after-hours but they have all kinds of tables to play games on and a library of all the hot games at Gen Con
- this will be a $10 ticketed event and limited to 80 people but you'll get a meal when you come the Osby games and giveaways prizes other special guests
- and everyone who comes can participate in the official strike tournament and I call it official because I decided to not because it's sanctioned in any way by ravans burger or the publisher or anything like that
- speaking of pod pledge we have our own pod pledge where you can go and pick up promos that we offered during previous fundraisers and those funds go to help support the show and purchases like this new camera that I'm using here
- so this is the box I received from Rob Orin of Rob's tabletop world a youtube channel that I first discovered because of his painting tutorials there
- so the game that's in here is giant killer robots you almost have to be a power lifter just to lift this thing
- Rob has actually added some of his own painting talent to these as well though adding some additional details to customize and personalize them even further for us I mean these models are already outrageous to begin with but having these additional details added to them is just gonna make the experience of playing it even more special
- Rob this is really what's the word for its pretty outrageous man this is really something else and and thank you thank you for this really generous gift
- you've not just given me and Luke a game to play and to share with other people who come to our house but also a unique production of it unlike anyone else has and that's really special and I'll think of you every time that we play this
- in light of Rob's generous gesture here I think one turn deserves another we should have our own giveaway and we need to do something that's worthy of a powerlifter
- if you donated during our seventh season fundraiser you are automatically entered into this draw but if you haven't don't worry you never have to donate to us to be entered into our contest
- and the code word is gonna be found over at Rob Oren's YouTube channel so if you go to his YouTube channel you'll find in his main youtube banner header there are five words in white the middle word the middle word is the code word for this contest
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Review at 0:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- 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
Cons
- 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
Thematic elements
- mega-corporations put on spectacles of giant killer robots fighting each other
- dystopian future
Comparison games
- 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.
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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
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Board Game Coffee Top List at 4:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- 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
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Giant killer robots competing in televised combat
- Future where cities are demolished for sport
- Commercial entertainment backdrop
Comparison games
- 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
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- 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
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