Game Info
Year
2023
Players
3-4
Age
14+
Playtime
120 min
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Description
Four asymmetric factions compete to shape Earth during the reconstruction after the First Robotech War
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Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 42:36 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Tense interaction and strategic card play
- Asymmetric gameplay with unique factions
- Fast playtime for a COIN game
- Excellent entry-level COIN game
Cons
- Tiny tokens are difficult to see
- Lacks some player interaction compared to other COIN games
- Can feel long for some players
Thematic elements
- Robotech Universe, preparing for future invasion
- Earth, post-alien invasion
- Asymmetric factions with separate goals
Comparison games
- Kuba Libre
- Fire in the Lake
- Root
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance — You get to do two actions on your turn... If you're playing a card to your faction then you get to do the action on the card as well as a normal action.
- Area Control — You have these territories on the board... two are about control.
- Card Drafting — There's option at the beginning of your turn to trade an event card with another player.
- Hand Management — Each of us are dealt four event cards that we choose to play on our turn.
- influence — Two are about trying to influence the population.
- Variable player powers — All totally asymmetric all totally have separate goals for the game.
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- The whole Resource Management mechanic between a blue and red resource.
- This game is played in two hours or less.
- To me this is now my recommended entry level into the coin game system.
- Whiz Kids just knocks it out of the park now don't they? It's like everything they put out is topnotch.
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