I’ve played a lot of Marvel Crisis Protocol and Star Wars Shatterpoint (does Legion count? I guess that’s a war game) myself. I haven’t played 40k or Kill Team but I have friends who play those. For me what it comes down to is the fact that this game’s ruleset is so much simpler and more streamlined without sacrificing the depth of gameplay. As well as the fact that games are consistently 40-60 minutes long. You gotta commit 2-3 hours for a game of MCP but with this you can play 3-4 matches in that time.

There are indeed Barbed Wire tokens! They end your turn if you move in them so you have to spend an action to destroy them first. And there are a few gadgets that can block Drones as well, Mute for instance is good at this.

The thing I always tell people is if they can’t get them all, then just buy the ones that are their favorites from the video game and you’ll probably have a good time with those 👍 If you haven’t played the video game… just get the ones with the coolest pictures 😅

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you might be able to find some on ebay possibly, there's always an influx of people trying to flip their pledges on there when a game starts delivering.

I just looked up “clear cardboard standees” or something to that effect on Amazon and found the ones in this video pretty easily!

I'm not sure imbalanced would be the right word. More than anything some of your options will just be more limited. The big appeal to having the full roster is that you have multiple, varied options for your team building (for instance, there are only 4 hard breachers in the game: Thermite, Hibana, Maverick, and Ace. If you only have the core box and years 3-4, you'll only have access to Thermite and Mav) More than anything it'll just limit your team building tools, but it wouldn't create any major imbalances imo. Hope this helps, I know I'm not Ethan but I've been playing just as long, this'd be my take on it

I’d agree with Jack’s take. It wouldn’t be imbalanced at all. With base box, years 3 and 4, and four maps, you’ll have years of replay-ability. Jack and I played with only 12 ops (6 for each side) and on one map for over a year and didn’t get tired of the game. So you’ve got plenty 😎

I look forward to trying it out.

I just searched for “clear standees” on Amazon and looked til I found something that looked better 😅

@@115-Gaming Thank you!

Well aware! I myself spent over $500 to get this game

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@@TheBrokenMeeple I made a conscious decision to avoid talking about the MG situation in the video because I didn’t want to overshadow the actual review of the game itself (though I originally included an entire section of the video’s script to it). I might someday take the material I wrote for that section of the video and discuss it one day, but it just didn’t feel like it belonged in this video.

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Of course! 😎

The game does have variable time clocks to help balance out, but if you’re playing with a brand new player, they will still struggle hard in those first few games. I’m speaking from experience here, I’ve taught many new people and this is just something that happens. It’s kind of like Chess in that way. You could give a veteran a 2 minute timer and a brand new player a 15 minute timer and the veteran is going to wipe the floor with them just from familiarity with game knowledge. If you’re like me, this isn’t a big problem because I don’t mind using several games whose main purpose is to help teach a new player, but I know others won’t like this. As for Operator balance… Ive talked with the developers of this game and it was playtested very heavily. While sure, if this went into a super professional scene, you might see some Ops maybe get picked a little more (which I’ve seen only a little bit of while playing this game for the last two years), there’s never an Op that gets picked that is broken or unbeatable. Any player can beat any combination of Ops. It’s all about the tactics and strategy, not about picking the “best” Ops. Again, just speaking from experience, been playing the game on TTS for a long time, and the “meta” there shifts more due to player preference as opposed to anything that’s overpowered.

I keep hearing that… guess I’ll have to play that one at some point

It was the main part of deal. Kickstarter is not a store. It’s about trust and take risk. Money is just a rucking money. This video is about The Game.

With a bit of luck, somebody competent ends up buying the game from mythic. I got the base pledge incoming, planned to get the expansions if I ended up liking the game. That plan went out of the window, since there won't be any retail presence now...