It’s what stands between every piece mattering and none of the pieces mattering. In a game where you’ll be counting battle strengths as often as you’ll be slapping down pieces onto the battlefield, visual cues are an absolute necessity. This tells you important things about where and who to fight.
That dragon belongs to the yellow player, while the demon belongs to the red team. You know those plastic rings you snap onto the bases of your pieces in a game like Rising Sun? They’re there to create a who’s who of the monsters and soldiers littering the board. See the problem? It’s one of visual clarity. Go ahead, take a peek at the image above. Even a glance at the board will reveal the first issue. The issue is both physical and mechanical. They become characters.įor a game about gigantic mechs slugging each other in outer space, Starship Samurai has a character problem. And that, by being different, they become more than bits and bobs moving around on a table. That it’s what they do on the table, not what it tells you in the fluff, that marks two sides as recognizably different. Whether it was the vibrant not-summoners of Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn, the hunters and agents chasing each other in circles in Specter Ops, or the fact that my band of survivors was nothing like your band of survivors in Dead of Winter, Plaid Hat has always known how to give its player avatars that extra pound of punch. Also the pleasantly unique warbands of Crystal Clans. After all, this is the creative team that produced sixteen totally distinct factions in Summoner Wars. Coming from Plaid Hat Games, you’d expect a certain level of distinctiveness between, well, everything that Starship Samurai has to offer.
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