Game Info
Year
2014
Players
2
Age
13+
Playtime
90 min
Complexity
2.6/5
Collection
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Description
Two players compete head-to-head in this light 4X game exploring colonizing and battling for control of limited resources in the far future
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The Discriminating Gamer Top List at 9:07 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- New edition is quite a bit better and bigger
- Beautiful version
- Really fun counters and boards and cards
- So well done
- Fantastic science fiction war game
- Love it
- So much fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Space war, conflict between factions
- Space
Comparison games
- Imperial Stars 2
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Playing cards can grant technologies.
- Chit Draw — Drawing chits determines the number of actions per round.
- Combat — Involves fighters and beam weapons.
- hex grid — It is a hex encounter war game.
- Technology Acquisition — Players can get technologies that help them.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Every game on this this section of 10 here at 191, every game on it with one exception is a game that was not on my uh two was it 2021?
- Star Realms is probably the most game I have ever I've probably played this game more than any other single game I have if you count the the the digital version because I play it on my phone a lot. It's my go-to bathroom game.
- This is a game that you and your friends will be laughing throughout at the difficult choices you have to make.
- It is really a fun game. It's really a smart thinking game.
- This is just this version is beautiful. It's a big beautiful version and really fun counters and boards and and and cards.
- It's this great horror game of of kind of be movie tropes.
- This is a solitary horror board game and it's a game that I played for the first time not that long ago.
- So, please leave a comment here in YouTube, on Facebook, on X at Board Gamegeeek. Love to hear from you.
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Zilla Blitz Other at 26:22 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Includes all previous expansions
- High-quality, updated components
- Potentially deep and strategic gameplay
- Visually appealing maps and counters
Cons
- Rulebook is described as basic
Thematic elements
- Space Combat / 4X
- Space
- Head-to-head space combat
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate) — Players are trying to expand, explore, colonize, and combat.
- event cards — Used to change the nature of combat.
- Hex and counter — Implied by the mention of space hex to hex encounters and counters on maps.
- space combat — A core mechanic for the head-to-head gameplay.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this G I will say this is a this is a type of game that immediately captures my attention
- it's got everything in here and if we look at the uh rule book here and let's just move this up a little bit to get a better look at it here if we dig into the rule book um it's 22 pages long which is not very long I mean the text is kind of small I was expecting it to be bigger but looking through it we can again see a lot of the elements of gameplay that are the things that I would be looking for to see so it's checking off all the buttons right
- this looks really cool I I'm very curious I will also it's again it's not to me it's a genre that I think has really struggled to capture the essence so while there has been often games that have had this Vision I think there's been very few games that have come close to pulling it off to capture that magic especially in a soliter format of letting you live the pirates life I hope golden age of piracy is that game
- this I now I don't know the original 2014 game that this was based on but basically it seems like they've taken every taken everything from Imperial stars that this two and built it into the game thrown all the uh the expansions in as well and and in essence what you've got here is a two-player head to-head game of space combat in the year of 4096 or something like that it's an epic 4X game
- these uh these Maps here look fantastic the counters look really sharp as well we've got updated cards it looks like there is event driven elements that are going to kind of change the nature of this head-to-head combat that you're facing
- I really like the potential and I think there's still a lot of untapped potential for space hex to heex hex encounters Space games and board games that take the combination of space and war game basically let's put it simply in there I think there's a ton of potential here to kind of expand off of this so when I see these colorful maps and see all these spaceships flying around I think oh this looks really this looks pretty juicy
- I'm working on a video called the 10 tabletop war games with the best Art and Design basically the 10 most beautiful tabletop war games and I've if you're familiar with the channel you know that I was gone from tabletop War gaming for over 20 years I've been back for 3 years so I'm catching up on a lot of stuff right I'm trying to catch up on 30 years worth of War games and the time that I've got left and so uh I I there's gaps and those gaps are things that I don't know and so I'm curious what you as a viewer would consider your most beautiful war games
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Zilla Blitz Other at 22:32 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- Includes original game and all expansions.
- Very high production values with mounted maps.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- 4X Space Exploration
- Space
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 4X — kind of a 4X space exploration game. you know, extermination, combat, exploration as you're moving your way through space.
- legacy — Legacy. So, this has the original edition of the game, plus the expansions
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Quotes (from this video)
- Got it. Off the line. Another man-to-man combat game. Each counter is a single man, just like in combat 3, but uh combat is a solo game. This is uh it's got solo guidance for it, but it's designed as a two-player game, although it's I think it's going to be very solo friendly.
- I feel like that sort of it's easy for me to sit down when I've got 20 minutes and just cruise through my phone and look at social media, but instead I can play a whole game. And so I think these games offer me an opportunity to do something more interesting than Doomcroll
- when talk about companies that have high production values with their stuff, I mean, of course, we've got the big ones, you know, GMT, Compass Games, and things. Worthington Publishing is right up there with Bua Sims in terms of the quality of their content. The boxes are good, the counters are good, materials are good, the cards are all vinyl. I mean, just really they don't they they make good stuff, too, which is always really nice to see some durability.
- It's going to be something different, right? I mean, it's always good to throw different things in the channel. Something a little bit different, but I think there's enough overlap with it with Wargaming that and and I know there's a lot of football fans on the channel as well.
- 49% no, 51% yes. So roughly 50% half of the people watching this video play miniatures wargaming as well as tabletop board gaming or or play and don't play anything else which was I thought it's more than I thought.
- Miniatures games for me represent the extension of a childhood hobby of mine, which was building and painting model airplane kits. Totally can see that. So you're building the miniatures, painting the miniatures, playing the games. These can all go together into one big hobby.
- The other thing would be PC Hex Encounters kind of like we did with the Panzer Core 2. The nice thing about that is that it's very easy to play in a live stream format because the rules are all managed for you in the background.
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Rob's Tabletop World Discussion at 12:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- very underrated
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Space
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Undaunted 2200 which is a very good game. Tactics II, very very good.
- I've got all the Killforths.
- Nemo's War, great game.
- Defenders of the Realm, love that game. Love it.
- I got some BattleTech on painting. Going to start painting again.
- Ogre, great game.
- We're going to be back in business, folks. We're going to be back in business.
- We're going to be back to full strength again. Just like the old days.
- People that want to work with me, great. People that don't want to work with me, great. Don't care.
- Getting hacked, man. It was very It took a lot of wind out of my sails.
- I'll get us there. All right, we got the other cable coming within the next month or so. Uh, they're going to be running that up here, so we're going to have fiber.
- I got 10 videos I got to get done. I got more stuff coming.
- We're turning the old game around.
- I don't think I've ever been this busy. And I'm pretty happy about it.
- We'll come back and uh, next week we'll start we'll start doing nice little short live play. Maybe we'll do uh, Val Petra.
- Everything feels better. You know, everything feels good.
- It is your old pal Earl.
- This has been a long time coming and it's showing the subscriptions have gone up.
- It's been a rough 2 days. But don't worry about it. I'll shake it off. I'll come back stronger than ever.
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