- Player Count: 1-2
- Play Time: 15-30 Minutes
- Age: 10+
- Genre: Abstract
- Play Style: Solo, Cooperative
- Key Mechanic: Dice Roller
Pocket Landship – is set in an alternative early 20th century where you are pitted against an onslaught of enemy mechs, artillery, infantry, and more. Deal out your starting cards and reveal the first row. Roll the dice and place them to produce your optimum attack, You then come under enemy fire which is controlled by another dice roll for which there is a placement formula. You can choose Advantages and Commanders for improved ability. You win the game if you can destroy all the enemy cards before they destroy yours.
This is a quick, tense and engaging dice and card game. The game has a very clever dice placement mechanic which makes it as equally enjoyable as a solo game or as a two player, cooperative game. There’s varied abilities of the different card types and the starting combinations are vast. The components are of very good quality and is also really simple to learn and teach. The game can be played with varying levels of difficulty and comes in a great, pocket sized box.
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