Neuroshima Hex however is a little longer but you can still have a game in less than 45 minutes. Collectible card games typically balance this but having a very short game length so you can pack in two or three games in an hour. True it falls to the same preys as collectible card games, where the luck of the draw has an effect on when you get the units. Neuroshima Hex is a game that always feels unbalanced, you always feel like the opposition has better units than you or they are getting their better units into the game quicker but it’s a credit to the developers that this is actually a very well balanced game. This process almost always feels like absolute carnage, it’s a very rewarding and equally frustrating experience that the battle section often removes half of the units on the battlefield. It’s easy to forget about something and then there is an inevitable back track. Resolving the combat can be very complicated as you have to keep track of initiative values and try and remember which units affected last round. It’s what makes the battle resolutions so much fun but it is also the biggest problem with the game.
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There’s so much complexity, especially with a full board, that there’s always an affect or unit that takes you surprise. What’s more likely to happen is that your careful plans unravel as either a unit or buff you forgot about cuts a hole in your defence or a plucky attack from your opponent hits home. If you’ve planned carefully your units come out on top and you cause maximum damage to your opponents’ base while minimising damage to your own. Units take effect in initiative order systematically shooting, hacking and causing mayhem. The effect is like throwing a ping pong ball into a room full of set mouse traps. It all kicks off when either a player uses a battle instant action tile or the board completely fills with units. It feels like an old west stand-off where everyone is keeping an eye out for the first itch of a trigger finger. The tension starts to increase as turns pass by and the battlefield keeps building and building in complexity. Next you play your tiles onto the battlefield, slowly building up a complex network of destruction. Having to choose what to discard is always tricky as all tiles are useful in some form and you have to decide which tile is least useful.
These are not placed on the grid but are instead played for immediate effect. The second tile type is a module these add bonuses such as increased damage to connected units. Some units also have shields to protect against gunfire or nets that disable neighbouring units. Units are your basic troops and can provide close or ranged attacks. The first difficult tactical decision presents itself here as you have to discard one of these tiles immediately. Play is made up of randomly selecting three unit tiles from a pool. The aim of Neuroshima Hex is simple each player has a base unit that is placed on a hex grid map, the first player to destroy their enemy’s base is the winner.