Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-4
Age
8+
Playtime
30 min
Complexity
1.8/5
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Description
Playful tabletop skirmish game where tiny plastic soldiers battle between household items like plates glasses and coffee cups
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Board Gaming Ramblings Discussion at 4:24 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Interesting because you can play with whatever you've got laying around on table
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Introduction to war games
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Wargaming — An introduction to war games.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And the size of the box is yeah enormous.
- This is not a game for me.
- We are sitting on the floor in hall three. This is where we usually end up trying to organize this suitcase so we can get more games.
- And the people are great. like I love the games but I like the people more because without the people it wouldn't be games and you know it it would be solo games but then again you nobody would have make the game because you need the people for the games to make sense and that is like why when you hear people say oh we're looking forward to the people I think it means more than just like sitting down or seeing people you know because for me the thing about spiel is being with all the people that love board games and you see all the happy faces all the games everyone Just being there for that one thing is what makes it so special.
- It's very random and luck based, but it was fun.
- It's about trying to not have to pay the bill at the restaurants.
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Board Gaming Ramblings Other at 12:32 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- It is a nice introductory into this genre of games.
- You can play this on a crowded tabletop and just use whatever as components.
- That was fun.
- Has an evolving gameplay where you can introduce more and more.
- Going to be good for a family style.
Cons
- Nothing that I need to play again.
Thematic elements
- Kids war game
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Wargame — A kids war game with figurines and shoelace strings to attack each other.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- The most fun I think was when you trade with another player and then you forgot that you just traded with that player and you get the same cards back.
- It felt like a boring tug of war kind of mechanism.
- This is mind sweeper the board game.
- The cake is a lie.
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Our Family Plays Games Discussion at 37:01 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- creative use of household items
- fun thematic concept
Cons
- potential fragility of improvised components
Thematic elements
- imaginative skirmish with improvised terrain
- living room battlefield using toy soldiers
- family-friendly, toy army aesthetic
Comparison games
- Descent (miniatures aesthetic)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- environmental obstacles — use household items to create battlefield obstacles
- Mini-Games — play with toy soldiers as the game components
- miniatures play — play with toy soldiers as the game components
- spatial/dexterity elements — cup and string-based setups (spoon catapult referenced later in convo)
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- Lunch is served with a side of panic.
- Time Bomb is a quick and fun bluffing and deduction game
- Fantasy Flight losing their mind again.
- Descent: Legends of the Dark. They're discontinuing it.
- We are live y'all.
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Adam in Wales - Board Game Design Analysis at 20:08
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Pros
- Contains DNA of kid-focused epic plastic adventures
Cons
- Not epic
Thematic elements
- Toy soldier combat
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- When I was a child, the board game industry was also dominated by huge hulking giants, epic, violent, plastic adventures aimed squarely at children.
- Unlike the dinosaurs before them, this entire genre of games which felt like everything to children like me went extinct.
- What they shared wasn't mechanisms, it was ambition. They were huge, packed with toyetic miniatures and terrain and aimed squarely at kids.
- Meaningful decisions. And this is where the genre struggles.
- The reality is that epic plastic adventure games for kids represented a very specific cultural moment, and one which we can never get back.
- Grab a block of amber, extract a little dino DNA, and rewild the board game ecosystem with new epic adventures for kids.
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Review at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Cool and unique idea of using household items for terrain.
- Feels like being a kid again with toy soldiers.
- Silly but very fun.
- Good rules that work.
- Low rules overhead and very fast gameplay.
- Accessible for families with young children.
- Infinitely replayable due to modules and missions.
- Nailed the theme.
- Snappy gameplay with no player elimination in the base game.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Playing with toy soldiers.
Comparison games
- King of Tokyo
- Warhammer
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Activation tokens — Tokens are added each round, granting players more activations, with "round one, you get to activate one thing, round two two things, round three three things."
- Army building — Players build their army by arranging "cards in front of you, by putting the guys out on the battlefield."
- cooperative play — A mode called "Another New Threat" is cooperative, where players work together against an AI threat.
- Deck Building — Players draw and play "tactics cards" which can have requirements like needing "two command tokens on them."
- Dice Rolling — Used for attacks where players try to "get as much damage as you can."
- Line of Sight — Determined by the height of terrain objects, where "four objects have to be taller than the figures because they are effectively going to be blocking line of sight."
- missions — Specific scenarios and objectives are provided in a mission book, such as "King of the Hill" or "Battle Royale."
- Modular rules — Advanced rules are introduced through modules that add complexity and new gameplay elements.
- Movement — Utilizes "little ropes that look like shoelaces" to define movement range and allow players to "go anywhere on that line."
- Variable player powers — Different soldiers have unique abilities, such as a grenadier with a "grenade dice" or a sniper with a "special ability."
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's like a game you wish as a kid you could have come up with the good rules that they've come up with because it's like adults finally said, "Hey, you know, when we thought it would have been cool to come up with ways of really truly fighting with our toy soldiers, this is what they've done."
- If you've got little kids at home, this is practically a guaranteed hit.
- Well, they nailed the theme. I'm just going to say like they 100% nailed the theme and it feels so thematic and so much fun just when you start when you pitch this game to me and you're like well you play with toy soldiers and the battlefield is just objects around your house. I was I'm like I'm in like I didn't even know how the game played at that point but I was like that seems like so much fun. Who doesn't love playing with toy soldiers like that is something ingrained in me from a young age.
- It has that kind of vibe like this and it's it's just it's fun. It's infinitely replayable.
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Dice Tower Review at 0:09 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- humor and playful aesthetic
- accessible weight for family play
- flexible modules that can add variety
Cons
- could feel vanilla or limited in depth
- rules overhead can increase with modules
- action economy starts light and remains constrained
Thematic elements
- toy soldiers, lighthearted combat
- family-friendly tabletop skirmish on a table using household objects as terrain
- humorous and playful
Comparison games
- Toy Battle
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Points — spend order tokens to activate troops and perform actions or special actions
- Activation tokens — spend order tokens to activate troops and perform actions or special actions
- Dice-based combat — roll dice to generate hits; health and shields track damage and defense
- height/elevation — Elevation grants additional bonuses to attack rolls when higher than the target
- Line of Sight — attack within a defined range measured by red strings; visibility required between heads
- Line of sight and range — attack within a defined range measured by red strings; visibility required between heads
- modules and terrain features — module books introduce alternative backsides and powers; elevation and terrain can alter outcomes
- Movement — move one figure per turn with defined distances, cannot move through obstacles
- Simultaneous Actions — units have unique actions (grenadier, sniper, operator), sometimes affecting allies/enemies
- spawn points and reinforcements — randomized spawn points; knocked-out units respawn at different locations
- special actions — units have unique actions (grenadier, sniper, operator), sometimes affecting allies/enemies
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I like the look of it. I like the aesthetic of it. I like that humorous touch. I wish that it shown through in the gameplay a little bit more.
- Five out of ten. I don't think it's bad.
- It's just a very simple kind of skirmish game.
- There are a lot of good games that offer tactical richness with simplicity of the rule set.
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