Ultimate Warriorz is a revamped version of Mad Arena from the same designer, with enhanced and revised components and rules.
In the game, each player picks one of the included characters, then either individually or in teams they fight it out in the small arena by carefully managing their action cards. After each player picks an action card in secret, players act in order of initiative, counting down from eight to seven to six, etc., with a player calling out their action when their initiative number is called. (In the event of a tie, you refer to values on the individuals cards to see who acts first.) Faster characters tend to be weaker, but ideally they can get their best shots in first, with dice being rolled to determine the results of various attacks.
Each character card is unique with four characteristics important for attacks — melee attack, ranged attack, speed, initiative — and each character has two unique actions to inflict on others!
- Loads of variety in wrestlers and special abilities
- The box turns into the board
- Unique sports game
- Flew under the radar
- Wrestling / UFC
- King of Tokyo
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Playing cards and rolling dice trying to beat up the opposition.
- Dice Rolling — Playing cards and rolling dice trying to beat up the opposition.
- Modular Board — The box turns into the board which is another nice touch.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Remember if your favorite sports theme game ain't on this list that's because A we haven't played it or B we think it's completely an utter dog [censored]
- If your favorite sports game ain't on this list right so number 10 on this list [censored] is the list is a lump of plastic [censored]
- if you can find aan Tennis then it is [censored] awesome.
- Basically a UFC type thing
- And I bet you ain't [censored] played it have you?
- tip kick is [censored] awesome
- it's better than suboo and I don't give a [censored] what you think
- it's just a Zen like experience flicking this disc between each player
- Even got that German Geer Lucas podowski
- it's a proper Euro game that implements a kick around on five side pitch pretty well
- Blitz ball took away all of the [censored] nonsense it condensed it down into a manageable game that didn't take [censored] 80 years to play
- probably the game that took me by the most