Game Info
Year
2021
Players
2-4
Age
14+
Playtime
52 min
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Description
Miniatures-agnostic demonic skirmish wargame where players lead customizable cabals of demons to claim dominion over the ruins of Hell
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Drive Thru Games Review at 0:25 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Unique and engaging activation system (D12).
- Meaningful choices offered by the soul dice mechanic.
- Tactical and engaging melee combat.
- Objective-based scenarios that encourage tactical play.
- Open-ended miniature agnostic approach with thematic grounding.
- Good balance between strategic and tactical gameplay.
- Relatively quick playtime per scenario (under an hour).
- Not a lot of bookkeeping.
Cons
- No dedicated spot on the character sheet to track experience.
- Tracking titles can be difficult without a separate sheet.
- Lack of a clear conclusion or 'win' state for the campaign.
Thematic elements
- Conquering hell, returning hell to its former state, or achieving oblivion.
- A personal hell or a hell that is not necessarily familiar to religious texts.
Comparison games
- Warcry
- Frostgrave
- Necromunda
- Kill Team
- Age of Sigmar
- Warmachine
- Hero Escape
- Duel of Ages
- Kings of War Vanguard
- Star Breach
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- action system — On activation, a demon can move and attack in any order. Actions include Charge (move and fight with a combat bonus), Running Skirmish (move, attack, use remaining movement, no combat bonus), and Focus (forgo movement for combat/defense bonus).
- Campaign play — The game features a campaign mode where warbands can be leveled up, gain artifacts, and grow over time through a series of scenarios.
- combat resolution — Combat involves rolling dice equal to a combat score. Hits are determined by comparing combat scores and rolling against specific numbers (2s for attacker with charge bonus, 3s for equal scores, 4s for defender with lower score). Defense rolls look for 6s to block hits.
- D12 Activation System — Each figure rolls a D12 at the start of the round to determine activation order, from highest to lowest, with tie-breakers resolved by dice rolls.
- Miniature agnostic — Players can use any miniatures they wish to represent their warbands.
- Objective-based scenarios — All 12 scenarios are objective-driven, requiring players to complete specific tasks like capturing points, controlling terrain, or retrieving relics.
- Post-Game Effects — After scenarios, players roll for effects of death, can retire demons for souls, gain rewards like essences and relics, and earn experience.
- Soul dice — Killing demons allows players to collect 'soul dice' which can be spent to enhance movement, change combat/defense rolls, or reroll death effects.
- Titles — Players can earn titles through achievements or scenario awards, which provide benefits.
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Quotes (from this video)
- this thing is a work a little piece of genius there
- all of that choice wrapped into that one decision is really really neat
- the system's really neat the theme is really fresh
- i definitely recommend it's like 10 or 15 bucks for the pdf
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Tabletop Minions Analysis at 1:37 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
- Two new scenarios
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Snarl will be a year periodical that will be available as a PDF only and it's designed with a classic Zen aesthetic but with our Twist on it
- July 1945 nuclear bomb test has done what the scientists hoped it wouldn't ignite the atmosphere and kill most living things on the planet
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:50:13
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Pros
none
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none
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Friends don't let friends Buy HP printers
- Wizards of the Coast would really rather that you just buy Magic by the case directly from them it seems
- They've been making a lot of really bad decisions in my opinion and if they go to business I will laugh and point
- I just don't understand why they don't want to do that
- I mean the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot
- The print books like the vast majority of people are buying the printed versions as opposed to just PDF only
- I don't know what the fourth dimension is
- I don't really pay attention to that stuff too much
- Most new Morheim players I talk to seem happy to download the PDFs for free from broheim these days and when I mention paper Printing and hard copies they think I'm crazy
- One odd thing about cyber punk red starter doesn't come with with gonks which I feel is like an essential mechanic
- Monac is a great game and the minis for the main monsters are beautiful and fun as heck to pain
- I attended a one-day charity Horus heresy event yesterday called Pride of the Legion a good day for a great cause but now I'm horse and this can be and need at least a day to recover
- If you want some great plastic modern soldiers look at the April issue of War Games Illustrated with the free sprew of warlord games special ops Troopers
- what's your favorite Warhammer mini does that mean which one that I own the most of because it's probably then going to be I don't know what they call them anymore they used to call them nurgle chaos Lord but nowadays he's that guy
- I think I have like six or seven of them it's great for kid bashing
- Does snarl not have a physical book to buy it doesn't
- the machines that do the saddle stitching are a real pain to maintain they have a tendency to break down a lot so some years ago they got rid of Saddle Stitch
- The newest Kill Team box set, 'Germination', is discussed.
- It's been a minute since I've liked both sets of models in a kill Team box.
- Kill team germination is coming this week can't wait
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:12:06
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Pros
none
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none
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Solo/Co-op add-on — Did not originally have solo/co-op rules but a downloadable add-on was available.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I don't not every game needs to have deep lore Some people just want to play fun games Some people want to take the lore from game a and bring it into a game B where they like the rules better
- lore is interchangeable so you know one of my favorite games out there is space weirdos it has literally no lore it's fine I make up lore on the Fly
- I like the fact that they're giving you options to play with the models you already have without having to go through and go geez I don't know what are they trying to get a point like what is this again you're like well these guys are supposed to be tyranids oh well it didn't come across as tyranids or whatever I have a whole bunch of tyranids and so I should use this
- the rules are generic not the lore
- Are they officially model agnostic I mean sure yeah you can use whatever ever models you want I mean to be fair every game is officially model agnostic even if they don't say it is it is
- I just don't like moving them in a chunk I like being able to move them separately I don't like that that just here's a thing and the the type of play where it's like well this part has to wheel over and do this and then then you're attacking from a flank
- rivenstone is the game that you're talking about
- the problem is this well it's not the problem here's the most recent answer they still haven't produced the stuff yet but the most recent email I got from them which I think was in July was them saying another company is basically buying the game from us and they will do the production and the the Fulfillment
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 34:35 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Designed as a complete game without the need for expansions.
- Always available through print-on-demand.
- Includes solo and co-op scenarios that tell a story.
- Has been available and selling for almost five years.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Demons, Angels, and War
- Hell
- Scenario-based storytelling
Comparison games
- Oculus Spear
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Print-on-Demand — Available as a PDF and print book through Wargame Vault.
- scenario-based gameplay — Features a three-part scenario that tells a story when played in sequence.
- Solo/Co-op play — The scenarios are designed for solo or cooperative play.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The idea behind 3D printing is that I can go onto my minifactory and find a really weird specific interesting to me type of model that probably wouldn't sell well out in the real world if it was made in plastic
- We're not constantly line goes up up because not only do we have no shareholders we have to make happy we also don't have to do this this isn't our day job
- it's the more Choice um I don't really think it's actually about saving money
- the point of the game is to try and crawl to the highest spot so there's a lot of rules for pushing people off of things and falling off of things and stuff like that and climbing and things like that
- but they were a lot of fun to paint and they were very interesting and whatnot
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 33:39 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- ranged combat rules — A question is posed about the possibility of optional ranged combat rules for 'Rain in Hell' in a future issue of Snarl.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's so over complicated a lot of good ideas but terrible to play
- the models look really good but um it's also not cheap I swear to God I saw the retail on it for that starter box was like 150 bucks
- because you can now get a pretty decent looking print we can make more stuff like that
- I used to play silent death back in the day which was a game made by a company called iron Crown Enterprises we used to play the heck out of that
- it was definitely very kind of complicated as well but at the time being a younger person I enjoyed it quite a bit
- I don't know if I'm not sure if Vince has played ship combat games I have
- I use an iada uh Eclipse uh iada hpcs I think is the technical uh model name or whatever and I've always loved that thing it works great
- why you wouldn't have Federation versus Klingon AR Romulan as the starter factions in any Star Trek game it makes no logical sense to me
- so I was really hoping they were going to do something different with um with the new version and when they sent me like the copy and I was started reading the rules and stuff I was just like oh this is pretty much just the same
- there's a zillion charts in that game
- it was a little fiddly but not too fiddly
- I do wonder if making Star Trek games fairly complicated is part of knowing Their audience as a trekky I can safely say we tend to like that kind of crunch and the complexity
- I don't want to play too much crunch these days you know what I mean
- CPS speed paint through the airbrush on the bottom terrain is the goat indeed
- I made a video about how to make it so your airbrush never clogs again and I'm 98% sure I made that video
- I have never had a clog in my airbrush in a decade at this point
- hard to believe silent death was from the same company I mean probably different people obviously you know but yeah silent death sheets a bit like hero clicks whereas you take damage
- the tabletop minions Awards will be coming out on Friday so less than a week away tabletop minions awards for 2024
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 1:23:48 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Positive
Pros
- High quality battle reports available.
Cons
- The creator of a highly-rated battle report has not posted in a year.
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Demonic Combat — A game focused on demonic combat, with suggestions for miniatures including Frostgrave demons and 3D printed models.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- OPR is the GURPS of wargaming.
- 40K rules as deep, I would call it artificially deep.
- Star Wars Legion terrain is almost always the best.
- OPR skirmish is a breath of fresh air compared to Kill Team.
- The damned stuff is supposed to be out, but it's not out yet, unfortunately.
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Review at 12:26 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
neutral
Pros
none
Cons
- The reviewer mentioned issues with print quality and lightness disappearing on certain parts of the print in the past.
Thematic elements
- Demons
- Fantasy
Comparison games
- Death Wizards
- Majestic 13
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- This game was a real fight to the finish line.
- I really enjoy the mini agnostic aspect of these games such a great idea.
- We wanted to make it so that instead of having the game upload on like let say May 1st with trying to get it launched at you know May 24 or whatever we would like to upload the game before Adepticon so that we have plenty of space in there a lot more wiggle room.
- The problem is also you can't make a book two more pages you can make a book four more pages at least in the system that we're using because if you think about it any given like if you're like oh just make the make the book one page longer well you can't just put one page into a book because what about the other side of the page that's technically two pages right.
- We need to build an audience of people who are interested in tabletop gaming and of the type that you're interested in making games for and then eventually you can be like hey that was not our plan.
- The Skirmish PVP mode in Death Wizards feels more thematically right than the last two games their strong points were definitely campaign mode this game is equally strong both ways.
- You start out with seven rating worth of minions so you could go with with seven zombies if you wanted to or you could take a Revenant who's rating two and then five zombies or you know whatever however that combination is going that's basically how you do it.
- If you have a good idea and then you're like doing something else and then you forget about it it's really annoying when you forget a good idea.
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Tabletop Minions Discussion at 9:58
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Pros
none
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- 3D printing has really changed the way that the hobby is is is is accessible to people.
- It's setting yourself up for failure to take a look at the super fancy stuff that you see, you know, from Golden Demon winners on, you know, Instagram or whatever and go, "That's what I want my first group of Space Marines to look like."
- The idea that at some point in my life that Steve Jackson from Steve Jackson Games, who made all the games that I played in college, would email me and say, "Hey, thanks for talking about our game on your YouTube channel." like that was pretty crazy.
- People will forgive bad video, but they won't forgive bad audio, especially in the hobby space...
- Consistency is key.
- You should only ever compare yourself to yourself in the past. You shouldn't compare yourself to stuff you see online or friends or anything like that. Compare yourself to yourself.
- Licensing IPs to use in games can very frequently end in problems because every time you sell a model, you got to pay the licensor.
- My biggest hope is definitely easier and safer 3D printing.
- As far as fears for the future of of wargaming, it's probably AI. I just, you know, just I'm very anti-AI and I don't want that stuff kind of getting into our wargaming.
- If you're interested, give it a try. It, like I said, doesn't cost anything, really.
- In a word, sum up how you feel about 13 years of running this channel. Content.
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