Game Info
Year
2001
Players
2-5
Age
12+
Playtime
180 min
Complexity
3.8/5
Collection
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Description
Narrative 54mm-scale skirmish game set in the Warhammer 40000 universe using a percentile-dice system.
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Video EVlt0BQd9M8
Tabletop Minions Discussion at 54:13 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Offers cool concepts and a narrative-driven experience.
- Can be a jumping-off point for other games (e.g., Inquisitor 28).
- The original rulebook can still be found and used.
Cons
- Difficult to play, requiring a Game Master.
- Larger 54mm models were not widely adopted.
- Original models are long gone.
Thematic elements
- Inquisition agents and their missions
- Warhammer 40,000 Universe
- Narrative-focused RPG
Comparison games
- Inquisitor 28
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- 54mm Miniatures — Uses larger scale miniatures compared to typical 28mm games.
- Narrative RPG System — Focuses on role-playing and story-driven scenarios, requiring a Game Master.
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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Video 7bwRAZmqE20
Game Night Picks - Pair Of Dice Paradise Top 10 List at 7:27 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Rich literary source material with atmospheric setup
- Strong cooperative play that scales with difficulty
Cons
- Historical setting may be dense for some players
- Thematic weight may require mature audience
Thematic elements
- Religious persecution, investigation, and the tension between inquisition and belief
- 15th-century Holy Office world of secrecy and suspicion
- cooperative mystery with detective-like deductions
Comparison games
- Elements of co-op deduction games
- Other murder-mystery board games
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative deduction — Players work together to uncover truth while managing conflicting clues
- Deduction — Players work together to uncover truth while managing conflicting clues
- Hidden Information — Secrets and red herrings drive tension and group dynamics
- Hidden Roles — Secrets and red herrings drive tension and group dynamics
- scenario-driven play — Pre-set stories from Jack Akira's world provide structure and mystery
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- "as you play, you are forces of nature molding the planet with competing visions"
- "an economic commodity speculation game set in the Renaissance"
- "in aqua mirabilis you in this game take on the role of a perfumer whose goal is to produce novel and exquisite perfumes to the king and his court"
- "cat cafe is a dice rolling press your luck party game"
- "Inquisitor is a cooperative murder-mystery game based on a novel with a historical religious setting"
- "La Stanza is a fast-paced board game in which players take the role of patrons of the arts"
- "Kingdoms Candy Monsters a take that, press your luck party game"
- "you are a villain eager to accumulate candies to accomplish this"
- "if you don't feed your monsters they'll eat all your candy and run away"
- "you aim to collect loot tiles with your Robin and then sell collections all of the same colour"
- "the game is a cooperative modular tile placement city building game"
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