So the first high-quality prototype arrived today! It looks so cool, I'm really stoked. Link to full album here (http://imgur.com/a/45FFq), hopefully the images embedded below will work.




Pretty sure that the fact these are super off center is on the production side, I'm going to contact the company to ask about a reprint or refund.






Design challenges that still exist: damage calculation, buried underlings, hit points. A new design challenge is apparent: in order to have fully interchangeable terrain hexes the board itself is not that stable. Lots of possible solutions exist, but I need something economical and easily reproducible. So some kind of felt board, or magnets, or really anything that isn't cardboard only, won't work. I'm thinking of a game board that has a basic outline of plains hexes on it, plus tiles like these for special terrain features, is the best bet. For more details on these design challenges check my other post.

http://forum.uniwar.com/posts/list/2236.page

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Duaneski Messages: 1021, Joined: Nov 27, 2015, Offline

I still think just have a marker on the underling that denotes it is underground.

If you're looking for a potential way to have the hidden thing work, look at the system used in "Clue: the great museum caper"

The thief tracks their movement on a piece of paper hidden to the other players. They can move two spots a turn, but each turn must be recorded on this paper. It relies on the thief being trustworthy of course.

I think you're better off just having everyone know where the underling is.

As for damage, on paper simple is best.

I wouldn't try to recreate the games damage formula personally. I would just add in simple modifiers to make up difference in cost.

So normalize attack stats for all of the tank units:
10 damage to GL +1d6 - defense (including terrain modifier).

If you normalize defense values of infantry to 5ish, then the tanks would AVERAGE 8 damage to infantry on plain tile, and 6 on a mountain. Well, that's probably a tick too high so maybe either increase base defense or offense.

Then to differentiate plasma Pinzer and tank:
Tanks can't attack air, but are of course cheaper. Still, they need something extra. So maybe they can reroll their attack roll.

Pinzers maybe just leave the same.

Plasmas get +1 to their damage roll (so they're effectively 11 instead of 10, but I think remembering the rule versus a different stat might be easier? Not sure )

That's just one interaction, but I think that's the best way.

As far as tracking damage, do you have a system for that in place ?

I hope these ideas are a bit helpful ... Just my thoughts of course

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LkASr Messages: 752, Joined: Sep 24, 2015, Offline

for the buried lings, I suggest making them in chips, so that way they can go under units if the situation calls for it

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xavi Messages: 554, Joined: Jun 12, 2009, Location: California Offline

This is awesome to see & read Thank you for sharing the pictures.

As a reminder all the game assets are available in high resolution at this URL:

http://www.uniwar.com/assets/game/index.html

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