> Great to see a proper board-game of this, too bad they had to go Kickstarter. then you also get the kaiju wrestling and as I've said, it may simply be my favorite game ever. It would be a really good game without the kaiju wrestling, but. It's just exactly the kind of monster wrestling feel that makes the genre so exciting that's backed up by a really solid resource system and an excellent reliance on positioning and board management. The new edition ups this a bit by making 2v2 the default, letting you deal major damage by coordinating things like throwing a monster to your buddy so they can slam them into a couple buildings for a big hit. A body slam will still do one damage, but colliding with a building is another and landing in burning wreckage will tack on a third. Power attacks are where you deal real damage. Throw them across the map, rampage through buildings to crush a line of units (destroyed units go back into the pool to be respawned) and more. Pick up the enemy monster and body slam them into an adjacent space. Power dice are high probability dice that you can spend to do power attacks. Power dice are earned by capturing objectives and buildings (or destroying them) and destroying enemy units. What really makes the game sing is that all your attacks generally just deal one damage, meaning if you stick to the basics, its just going to be a slap fight. You don't have to spend all the dice in one pool though, and efficiently managing how much you put into attacks can often let you take consecutive turns with your monster to keep the pressure on your opponent or avoid retaliation. All the dice you spend on your monster go back to the unit pool to spend their next turn. All the dice you spend on the units go over to your monster pool so that on your next turn you can use those dice to move your monster around and make attacks. A group of units can even combine their attacks and hurt the enemy monster if they're lucky. There's just a great feeling both when you start looking over this dynamic looking city and end the game with your monster standing alone amongst little more than burning tiles.Ī quick overview you spend dice as a resource, initially on the unit side to spawn tanks and things and use them to go out and hold objective points or capture buildings.

Its just a fantastic blend of resource management and positioning coupled with a great set of wrestling mechanics that result in attacks moving monsters all over the board and reducing the city to rubble. People who like or dislike this game - could you elaborate more as to why? Daedalus81 wrote: So, my kid is totally into Godzilla and kaiju in general at the moment.

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