BattleCON: Devastation of Indines

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Ante Phase — A phase where players can spend 'force' to activate buffs like speed up, power up, or defense up.
• Card Play — Players select one base card and one style card each turn to form attacks and combos.
• character abilities — Each character has unique bases, styles, and special abilities that impact gameplay.
• Combo System — Attacks are determined by combining a base card and a style card, with their stats influencing the outcome.
• Dungeon Crawl — The reviewed mode involves progressing through a series of floors with enemies and objectives.
• hand management — Players manage a hand of cards to choose their base and style for each attack.
• Multi-attack — Some attacks can hit multiple enemies within range, useful for clearing groups of weaker foes.
• Positioning — Movement and positioning on the board are crucial, especially for characters with abilities tied to adjacent spaces or specific formations.
• Resource Management (Force) — Players utilize 'force' for special actions in the ante-phase, such as speed, power, or defense buffs.
• Stun — If an opponent's attack power exceeds the defender's guard, the defender becomes stunned, potentially canceling their own attack.

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Quotes (from this video)

• So, Devastation of Indians comes with a whole bunch of extra modes. And one of the coolest ones that I have somehow never covered on the channel before because when I initially covered the game, I just focused on my own uh variant solo mode, unofficial solo mode, uh is this battle quest dungeons mode for solo and multiplayer.
• Because the key thing of this mode is that you're generally not going to get to heal much. Like each uh combat you do is just going to whittle down your life.
• If you haven't seen BattleCon in action before, this is a 1v1 fighter in its main play. Again, not counting this mode I'm playing.
• Because usually when you do an attack uh that could it theoretically include multiple people, only the first one in range gets hit. But here I could like blast a bunch of these zombies on the first floor altogether.
• And just to keep things simpler, instead of using the life tokens, I borrowed a dice thrones spinner. So I've got 40 health right there.
• This is the easiest dungeon of all with using all the gold because they said to make this one harder, don't use as much gold.
• This is only in Devastation, although you can use characters from other sets. And then here's a two fighter. I'll just kind of show you the other options. You got a two fighter tag team thing where you switch between two characters. This one's a three fighter tag team where you switch between three and then eventually they like split up and it's a lot more complicated.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Area movement — The game involves moving figures along spaces on a battle line, with mechanics like advance, retreat, push, and pull.
• card-driven — The game is described as card-riven, implying mechanics are driven by cards.
• Combat — The core of the game involves duels with attacks, damage, and defense.
• Deck building — Players build their deck from character-specific cards and generic cards.
• hand management — Players keep cards in their hand and choose which to discard.
• set collection — Players collect tokens, such as vengeance tokens or chivalry tokens.
• Simultaneous action selection — Players secretly and simultaneously choose cards to discard or play their attack pairs.
• take that — Some effects, like the cancel ability, directly interfere with the opponent's actions.
• Variable player powers — Each character has unique abilities and a specific set of cards.

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Quotes (from this video)

• In this video, we're going to learn the battle con system using Devastation of Indians by D. Brad Tolton Jr. and published by Level 99 Games.
• So, join me at the table and let's learn how to play.
• The goal of the game is to win matches.
• But during a beat, both players are actively doing things. So there's not really a strict breakdown into player turns.
• If a legal move cannot be made, then the entire move is ignored.
• And that's everything you need to know to play a one-on-one BattleCON duel.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Area movement — Characters can advance or retreat spaces on the board, affecting engagement range.
• Clash resolution — When players pick the same base card, it results in a 'clash' requiring new base card selections.
• Combat — Players engage in direct conflict, with mechanics for range, power, damage, soaking, and stunning.
• hand management — Players select cards from their hand to form attack pairs each round.
• Priority system — Determines the order of actions within a beat, with higher priority allowing earlier effects.
• token management — Vengeance tokens and Concentration counters are used to power up abilities, grant stun guard, or adjust attack ranges.

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Quotes (from this video)

• So basically as I'm hitting you I'm powering you up correct?
• So you're powered up again which isn't so great
• The other one though lets me Retreat one space and I do want to do this so I'm going to move back one space.
• I was really hoping you were going to hit me so I could use some retribution here but uh it's not going to do anything for me.
• Well I did play kind of aggressively in that first turn. Maral is kind of a sit back and wait character so I don't know I felt like maybe it was time for me to just take it down a notch before I started hitting again.
• I'm going to gain a concentration counter so I'm starting to load up here as well.
• I think for once you've got the priority.
• I need to clear out of here I am going to retreat I'm going to retreat the full three spaces I can go.
• I get three Vengeance tokens.
• I feel like we were pretty quick both of us in picking our attack pairs I don't know if that means we both really know what we're doing or we just kind of flattering at this point.
• I'm going to discard all three of these to pull you three spaces closer.

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