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Game Info
Year
2018
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
90 min
Collection
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Description
Across the far reaches of the Lotus Galaxy, a civil war is waged by massive machines piloted by skilled warriors. Take your place as daimyo of one of the major clans and fight for your right to the title of Galactic Emperor in Starship Samurai, an epic new game of warring clans for two to four players.
In this war, you must use diplomacy to bring honor to your clan, earn the support of the lesser clans, and cement your claim to the throne. But when negotiation is not enough, you can launch massive fleets or deploy the most fearsome weapons the galaxy has ever known — the terrifying Samurai Mechs — to crush your enemies and seize key locations. Exert your influence and bring order out of chaos!
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Pros
- Gaining influence over minor clans and moving their tokens up and down columns.
- The strategic placement of order tokens and the ability to boost actions with wealth.
- Playing action cards from hand.
- The combat phase where players use battle cards.
- The victor of a battle gaining honor and claiming the location card.
- The resolution phase where players gain rewards based on their influence on the allegiance board.
- The final scoring based on collected location cards and their symbols.
Cons
- If a location has no space for a mech, it destroys a ship with the lowest power there, potentially your own.
Thematic elements
- Players are heads of prominent clans trying to vie for control of the throne.
- The galaxy after it has been explored, where humanity turned on itself until the Galactic Emperor restored order through careful diplomacy and giant samurai mechs.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- area majority / influence — Players gain influence over minor clans by having more power at locations. This is tracked on an allegiance board.
- Combat — Players engage in combat at locations by playing battle cards, with the highest total power winning. Ships can be destroyed.
- hand management — Players draw and play action cards, with a hand limit.
- Resource management — Players manage wealth tokens and honor points.
- set collection — Players collect location cards, which provide honor at the end of the game based on having different symbols.
- Variable player powers — Players choose a samurai mech, which has a unique power and miniature.
- Worker placement / action selection — Players use order tokens to select actions from a limited set of action spaces. The value of the token can be modified by spending wealth.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The galaxy have been finally explored, humanity turned on itself until the Galactic Emperor restored order through careful diplomacy and giant samurai mechs.
- Now you're the head of an important prominent clan trying to buy for control of the throne but so are the other players.
- Players will be engaging in combat with one another as they try to control the various planets of the Lotus galaxy and exert influence over the minor clans so that they can earn the most honor and be crowned the new emperor.
- The victor in the battle will always gain 5 honor then they collect the rewards showing on that location card and claim it placing it facedown next to their board.
- The player with the highest honor now wins but in the case of a tie the tied player with the most wealth wins.
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