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Angelspit
Famous Hero
Warrior of the Heavens
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posted August 10, 2005 03:51 PM |
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Tiles and Cards
My CCG experience is limited to Magic (and, I will admit it, a few games of Pokémon). I was wondering if the Heroes IV CCG is the first to combine a modular board with typical CCG mechanics. I have tried to imagine what Magic would be like with some kind of a board underneath, and the H4 CCG might be a good answer!
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startune
Promising
Adventuring Hero
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posted August 10, 2005 11:43 PM |
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Tiles and cards
As far as I know it is a unique design mechanic. Part of the mechanic was developed in the Escape Velocity Nova game, which used a stack of cards to represent a single military unit (in that case, a space craft). We call this mechanic the Battlestax system. In Heroes, we use a stack of cards to represent an army, like the horse icon does in the computer game.
The other part of the design is the interlocking tiles. While there are other games (Cataan, Bionicle, ect) which use tiles to construct a board each game, heroes is different in that each tile has smaller terrain hexes on it so that the terrains will make some amount of sense and proportion.
There is some possibility that a plastic accessory set may some day be produced as an add on to the game, so that 25mm miniatures will fit on a larger version of the tiles. If this happens, it will require a larger table space, or limit the users to playing on 4 or 5 tiles at the most.
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Jonathan Bjork
Director of Games Development
DGA Games
http://www.dgagames.com
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