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Many heroes go forth to battle, but some never return; leaving behind their prized possessions. You'll be part of the bidding war for the vaults they left behind to gain valuable items -- each providing Gold, Victory Points or new abilities. Outbid your opponents, equip artifacts to gain new abilities and find the gear your up-and-coming heroes are looking for to be victorious in Vault Wars.
Players will take turns as an Auction Master, leading a cut-throat bidding war to selling off Vaults full of items to the other players.
Each Vault provides a unique experience, introducing new ways for the players to bid.
No player quite knows everything that's in a Vault, and there's lots of junk to fool your opponents into bidding on.
Between auctions, players may sell off their items to gain Gold, or save them for Victory Points -- paying storage fees to keep them around.
Collect gems for massive Victory Points, Weapons to gain lots of Gold, or rare Artifacts to gain powerful abilities.
Each player has up-and-coming heroes who are looking specific items, giving out bonus victory points (but try to keep that a secret from your opponents).
The player with the most victory points after all the auctions will be the winner!
Vault Wars is a bidding and bluffing game for 3-5 player that plays in less than an hour.
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- hey everyone welcome back to watch it played
- this is going to be a quick news and updates video and we're also going to do the draw to give away this copy of Vault Wars
- I love Periscope this is an app that allows me to create content live on the fly
- so although it's a closed event you can join me vicariously
- so let's draw for that right now and the winner drawn randomly from our contest app is Kevin Maloney congratulations Kevin
- anyone who donated at the $15 level or higher is going to be automatically entered into any contest we have during season 5
- there's only one of me and many many many of you so please don't write me until October 22nd
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- it's taking me forever I'm going so slow
- Age of Sigmar
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- We're going to do some more content over there finally I have no idea how it's going to go it could be a total train wreck but we'd love to have you there to sort of help us figure it out
- it feels like all of my time is being taken up with creating hopefully useful tutorials for you but we haven't done a gameplay for a while and this might be a way for us to fit one of those in
- this is an area you would not normally see on the channel but I've got all my paint supplies here and I've got Miniatures that I'm assembling and cleaning up and getting ready
- Ty congratulations you just won a brand new copy of the NECA underhive box
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- clever auction dynamics
- family-friendly entry into heavier games
- thematic cohesion can be loose
- not as deep as other heavy titles
- vaults, survival, competition
- post-apocalyptic vault-clearing and competition
- competitive with a light, humorous tone
- Bohnanza
- Munchkin
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- auction/bidding — players bid to claim valuable vault pieces
- set collection — collect vault pieces to complete sets and score points
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- Spirit Island not Spirit Away mind you it's a great movie if we were giving away Badges of approval for movies Spirited Away a batch of approval but Spirit Island also and this is greater than games
- Spirit Island is a fabulous game... it's fantastic
- Terraforming Mars yes it's our favorite ugly game terrifying Mars is amazing
- I would play that anytime you brought it out
- it's so freaking cool
- we're giving away four copies of Sagrada to four different people