This is one I had playtested twice and then I couldn’t get people to play anymore. Is it a bad game? Well, yes, but so are all my games. Its bigger crime is that it was an ugly game. The idea is 2-3 players are super villain Dr. Wily types building up a robot army and deploying them to cities to conquer them. The game had obvious flaws but let’s go into the concept as a whole.

 

You had a few components to this game. First is the 7 custom dice. This is essentially your looting roll using Yahtzee rules. You had Money, Lazers, Missiles, Targetting, Bullets, and Bolt on each die. So whatever you rolled were the components you can acquire that turn. Next, you could allocate one component per bay (and that component could be allocated to a neighboring bay with a maximum of 2 components in a bay on a single turn). Then, if you completely a robot, you turn it over.

 

So let’s go into the robots. Robots have a strength, tactical AI, component “recipe,” deployment cost, and special ability. Now the thing is, the component recipe is what items are needed to build the robot. The strength is their ability to “enslave” the city and Tactical AI is their ability to destroy opposing robots. The deployment cost is how much it costs to send a robot to attack a city. Finally, there is the special abilities and that is the ability they can use if they are not deployed.

 

So… finally, the cities. The cities are essentially your victory points. The cities have a strength and a defense. Once the strength (total combined of all robots there) has been met or surpassed, the current player puts their “obey” manifesto on the city (can only be placed on one city at a time). This means the city is under siege and everyone, including the current player, receives one last turn to deploy robots there. The first thing that occurs when resolving the city is the Defenses destroy any robots with the components they defend against. Next, starting with the player who has the Obey token in the city, they can destroy an opposing robot if, and only if, there is another robot with a matching Tactical AI. The next player does the same, until there are no more matching robots. The strongest remaining force will win the city, with the tiebreaker being the Obey manifesto.