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Kings & Things

Game ID: GID0180477
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Year
1986
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Description

Kings & Things is a classic Tom Wham game of warring kingdoms in a fantasy world and the legions of things that inhabit them. The board is made from hex tiles, which allows for a different board layout every time. Utilizing an interesting flipped counter element, players attempt to out bluff one another regarding the types of things they have in their armies.

Reimplements:

King of the Tabletop

Description

Kings & Things is a classic Tom Wham game of warring kingdoms in a fantasy world and the legions of things that inhabit them. The board is made from hex tiles, which allows for a different board layout every time. Utilizing an interesting flipped counter element, players attempt to out bluff one another regarding the types of things they have in their armies.

Reimplements:

King of the Tabletop

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Video yDrhIlXcpYE The Dice Tower Analysis at 13:21 sentiment: other
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Nostalgic/Amused
Pros
  • Historically significant for its map style.
Cons
  • Silly game.
Thematic elements
  • Combat with creatures
Comparison games
  • Catan
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Combat — Players attack each other in a combat game.
  • Hexagonal Grid — Features a hexagonal map, possibly the first of its kind.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • I just don't think Planet B. I just think, uh, another Euro style game.
  • Silly balancing dexterity game for kids.
  • It was kind of disappointing to me that you have to go through box by box.
  • This is essentially a Voltron style game where you are fighting for control of different factions, but you each have two of these gigantic robots that will show up at battles and fight.
  • So, I guess I only played the original one. There's some silly fun to it, but it gets old a little quickly.
  • This is a deduction adventure game in medieval Europe.
  • You know he's evil because it's in the name and it's a decent lighter weight cooperative game.
  • When I found you just connecting these different spots with groups of pirates, man, I didn't like this game.
  • It looks bad. It's placing dice on these cards. It's just a mess.
  • It's a smaller deck builder, so and I gave it a seven.
  • Kings and Things. You look at this and there's a bunch of chits of different kinds of creatures on a grid-like map, a hexagonal map. It's one of the first ones to have a peaceable hexagonal map. In fact, it might be the first one.
  • Silly, silly game.
  • This is a a a uh very light deduction game. Maybe a little too light for me.
  • Talk about trying to make a game that no one wants to buy.
  • My favorite of this bunch is probably Starship Samurai.
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Video UlcTI0Yx-A8 UndeadVikingVideos Discussion at 2:16
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  • the games that made us or whatever
  • leave me a comment about something you would like me to talk about
  • it comes down to two games uh and those would be access and allies and survive
  • this looks super cool
  • I don't know how you play I don't know how it works I don't know anything about it but I got to own that game
  • there's all kinds of mechanisms in in survive that are evident in the games that I enjoy now
  • what's the game that made you what's the game that you played when you were uh young that you still play today
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Video 8bXlgthmuMw BoardGameBollocks Top List at 4:53 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
  • early modular-board concept
  • replayable via changing layouts
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • fantasy warfare with modular board
  • warfare bluffing with army tiles
  • light, humorous
Comparison games
  • Car Wars
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • bluffing/negotiation — players attempt to misrepresent army strength
  • dynamic board layout — board changes with each playthrough
  • modular board with revealed tiles — counters/tiles are flipped to reveal your army and terrain
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Railway Rivals is not going to win any prizes for its aesthetic beauty.
  • it's an ugly pig of a game
  • This is a really bizarre game.
  • you don't know what you were drawing. It's going to be a completely random affair.
  • insta death.
  • the game would change every time you played it.
  • Dark Future could have been a fantastic game had it been released a couple of years earlier.
  • I still enjoy playing it today.
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