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This solo, two player cooperative and two to four player competitive game collects and combines the very best gameplay content from Hoplomachus: The Lost Cities and Hoplomachus: Rise of Rome, as well as several of their expansions.
Hoplomachus: Remastered includes everything that originally made the franchise a hit, with its ease of play, multiple combat modes and subtle variations between factions. We're giving the line a huge production update to make it the kind of game we at Chip Theory have wanted it to be from the beginning. Featuring new original art, more attractive graphic design, streamlined rules, and component compatibility with Victorum, Hoplomachus will now embody the Chip Theory Games premium experience in every sense of the word.
Though both Victorum and Remastered are standalone titles, their gladiator and tactics chips are cross-compatible between both games, allowing players to mix and match chips for even more gameplay options!
—description from the publisher
Part of the Hoplomachus family — see Hoplomachus: Victorum for the combined view.
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Hoplomachus: Remastered - How To Play
Images
- New art is much cleaner
- Condensed components
- Expansions are good
- Solid 1v1 play
- Relies heavily on dice rolls ('roll to resolve')
- Original art was rough
- gladiatorial combat
- Victorum
- Rise of Rome
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Dice combat — Combat resolution relies heavily on dice rolls.
- expansion integration — Expansions add new mechanics like naval battles and crocodiles.
- Set Collection — Collecting items and upgrades.
- Skirmish — Focuses on tactical combat between individual units.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Sky Team is absolutely phenomenal.
- This game is just awesome.
- the gameplay itself is is super fun.
- this was a super big surprise for me because I mean I never played Whistle Stop.
- Second edition because it's just improved in literally every way.
- This one is just absolutely fantastic.
- This one is the simplest of the three games.
- this one does a really cool system of like you actually lose.
- It just they knew they knew the assignment with their writing.
- this was I mean I know you like S. Corey if it wasn't so long. I think we both kind of settle on this one in current state being the best of the three.
- it's a 7.3. I could have sworn this was at like a four at one point, which is fair cuz I think uh Portal Games kind of shat the bed on the game.
- the actual gameplay of this one is one of the best uh cooperative survival games out there.
- Awesome thing of like a good example is oh hey you actually when you're exploring you come across a shack that has some preserved food
- this one remastered, they they condensed it down
- The expansions for it um, Well, because now it's all cross compatible.
- it literally is role to resolve. like you can be as strategic and tactile as you want. If dice if you roll blanks, you roll blanks and [censored] off.
- This one's absolutely fantastic.
- It's actually a digestible campaign game. Like you can finish it and feel satisfied
- My only hiccup with this is its expansion. while as good as an expansion is a continuation of the main campaign story except you don't play with the characters that you were playing with.
- The Cloud Spire one, I think you'll like though.
- This game is literally luck the game
- the Tangle Woods ones, I'm like, do I hate this game?
References (from this video)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- the Skirmish mode of the game is played in turns starting with the first player
- you may choose to either have a unit attack or instead use what is known as its special skill
- the game comes with all kinds of chips stored in these included containers
- this newly remastered Edition returns you to the arena with updated rules and components