Anyone, Anywhere.
Unmatched is a fast-paced game of tactical combat between unlikely opponents. Pick your favorite hero, choose a location, and use your hero's unique deck and abilities to win the day. You can mix up heroes and maps from any set. Features the innovative art of Oliver Barrett.
Battle of Legends, Vol. 1 includes four legendary heroes, each with a unique hook: King Arthur can sacrifice cards to pump up his attacks. Alice gets big or small, changing her attack and defense. Medusa can strike from range and kill with a single glance. Sinbad dances around the battlefield, getting stronger as the game goes on.
Contents:
• 1 double-sided game board
• 4 hero figures
• 6 printed sidekick tokens
• 7 custom health dials
• 124 cards
• 1 Alice big/small token
• 1 rule book
- Miniatures look really good.
- Component quality is nice.
- Insert is fantastic.
- Character abilities are unique and thematically appropriate.
- Allows for crossover of characters from different genres/epochs, similar to Heroscape.
- Good for thematic matchups.
- Melee characters can be vulnerable if forced to engage.
- Simplicity leads to shallow gameplay with limited strategy/tactics.
- Can suffer from bad card draws with no easy way to mitigate.
- Can result in a 'cat and mouse' game with no clear resolution.
- Skirmish game with unique characters from different genres and epochs fighting each other.
- Heroscape
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play (Attack/Defense) — Players play attack cards and opponents play defense cards to resolve combat. Some cards have special abilities.
- Hand Management — Players draw cards into their hand and must play them for actions like scheming or attacking. Hand size is limited to seven cards.
- Movement — Players can move their miniatures and minions on a zoned map.
- sidekicks — Characters may have sidekicks that assist them in combat and can be targeted.
- Skirmish — A simple Skirmish game where players use unique character abilities to defeat opponents.
- Unique character abilities — Each character has unique special abilities tied to their theme.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The component quality is absolutely outstanding for such a cheap game.
- The fact that each of the characters in the game is thematically sound is a bit of a bonus.
- The fact that you can sort of pretend that you're playing heroscape with this game it's absolutely fantastic.
- The simplicity of the game is Its Own Worst Enemy.
- Sometimes you just end up having bad cards.
- The move attack attack move mechanism is so shallow it makes love Island look like a safe space for refugees.