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2025
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Description
SMOL TACTICS is a card game of clever timing and strategy, playable in about 20 minutes. Players take turns playing cards onto the stacks. On your turn, you can place one or more colored cards on two out of three central stacks. The game uses a unique color-matching system, making every choice important. Your goal? Complete stack missions to claim the pile. But act quickly—hesitate, and an opponent could snatch that stack!
In this game you build up and wait for the right moment. The special cards (jokers and wildcards) help with this, which provides exciting twists. You take tricks, play tactically and it remains exciting until the last card. Perfect for fast, competitive fun.
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Pros
- Satisfying chain reactions and combos
- Can be very efficient
- Story-based challenges and scenarios
Cons
- Nasty guards can be worth lots of negative points if not under control
- Need to assess actions to minimize negative consequences
Thematic elements
- The Yellow Turban Rebellion
- story-based challenges and scenarios
Comparison games
- Hadrian's Wall
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action selection — Each round you get three of these six printed cards to use and you choose two top halves which give you four small actions or orders and one bottom half which gives you a special action or effect called a scheme.
- Area Movement — Order for ease travel. Move to a new circle on the map and gain any bonuses you completely surround.
- Polyamino — The game is of medium complexity, with mechanics such as rolling, polyamino and story-based. You need to unlock polyamino shapes or tactics by gaining soldiers or traveling.
- Roll and Write — Solo campaign roll and ride game where you're trying to destroy as many boxers in front of the castle. The orders are all about crossing off boxes on your tracks.
- Set Collection — The council mostly about scoring points but restrictive as you can only cross off from track of this round's weather.
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- hi graduates it's stella from meeple university and this is stella's short and sweet review for Shoe Tactics from Leviathan Caves
- The Yellow Turban Rebellion has started creating havoc and devastation
- The game plays solo but can also be played with a few players simultaneously playing their own games
- The components featured in this video are prototype so rules and my work are not final
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- I also share my board games jenny on instagram hopefully i will see you there too see you next time
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