It’s not a game play this week, but is a massive board game as I open up and unbox all that is The Isofarian Guard from Sky Kingdom Games. There are a lot of interesting pieces, but it’s a massive game without a massive amount of minis. And I think that’s an interesting thing, I’m very curious about what all that story is going to be. So let’s get around to unboxing it.

The Isofarian Guard Unboxing

Like I said for a massive game, this is a bigger box than Frosthaven and more weight, there are way less minis. Only five minis in the game, but it gets it’s bulk in a number of different areas. The biggest being that it has a load of chips. Now, we didn’t look at all of them in great detail, but that’s basically the main mechanism for the game.

You build up your bag of chips and what you draw is how you are activating in combat. So it’s leveling up your character which I believe gives you new powers and/or new chips. Those might be specific to those powers, so you might just be manipulating the ratio of offensive to defensive chips in your bag depending on how the character is being built around surviving.

Of course, this game isn’t just about that bag combat. There are other elements in the game as well. Mainly exploring the map, finding the story you need, and interacting with different characters. So it promises a nicely developed RPG like system for a board game while using non-dice mechanics. I feel like while this matches up with Chip Theory Games with the chips, it is pulling from what Gloomhaven did to say that you don’t need to do a dungeon crawler with dice to chuck. A good story driven game can offer different luck.

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So, tomorrow, Wednesday, I’ll be streaming my sixth game of ISS Vanguard. You can find that stream over here. Click that notification bell to know when I go live, but if not, it’s at 8 PM Central time. But join me as I continue to dive into the game basically making my first major planetary exploration without the game telling me what to do. Let’s see what horrible things await us on the planet.

Then Monday at 8:30 PM Central time, I plan on doing a game play. It might be back to Planet Unknown, or there are some other games to be played solo that have come in. I picked up Wreckland Run from the Renegade solo line that I want to play.

And my apologies for Saturday. I meant to do the pack opening and chat, but my kid gave me a cold. So I was wiped out that day and evening and took it easy. You can hear plenty of the coughing in this video. Hopefully I’ll have time to stream that oon.

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