Here's the rub though, moving quickly means you have a low initiative for movement, but a high one for combat. You then move and attack in initiative order starting from the lowest.
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In a simplified style of aeriel combat that I remember from games like Blue Max, all the players simultaneously set their speed and turn direction and reveal them together. Speaking of biplanes the second game phase is the Aerial Action Phase and this is the second mini game. These constructions allow you to train your hogs in the art of war more effectively, equipping them with flame throwers and tanks, or sending biplanes up to harrass your enemy. It gives you a feel of an online strategy game, you chose whether to construct an airfield, or refinery and place it on the grid, just make sure you leave enough room for further constructions later. Your hogs base is represented on the battlefield by a single hex, but this is represented off the board with a smaller grid into which you build up a network of constructions to aid you in victory.
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While not strictly mini-games the first two phases of any turn do give that feel. Pork From Above // Hogs Of War Mini Games Two glancing hits can be combined into a single hit, while two hits become a critical hit giving so combined fire and the right weapons will always give your Hogs a chance. But even in this simple mechanic Stone Sword Games have added an interesting touch. Dice have different combinations of hits, misses, glancing hits, and critical hits on them and some attacks require higher results, vehicles can only be damaged by critical hits. Each colour represents a certain type of attack, red dice are for melee, blue are gun dice and green are explosive dice.
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Mechanically the game is very simple to pick up with a set of custom dice to make your attacks you simply have to look at the colour cubes on your units cards and count the colours. The board itself represents the battlefield for your hogs and there are three types of terrain that can be deployed mountains, forests and water ways, each of these is very reminiscent of the console game for example water would drown your pigs and in the boardgame it can't be crossed by land moving troops and vehicles. The game is won when a player reaches 12 Victory Points. These five missions explain the board set up and what the Primary Victory Conditions are for the players although you and your opponents can chose to build your own sandbox to play in. Hogs of War is a boardgame for 1 -4 players and can be played as teams or as every pig for themselves in a death match across a hex map to complete one of five missions from the campaign book, such as Take and Hold or Fortified Swine. Hogs Of War // Stone Sword Games Game Play Twenty years ago a game was released on the Playstation that combined whimsy with a tactical team combat game, like a 3D version of Worms the Hogs of War dropped your squad into a map with only your cunning and airdrops of weapons to help complete the mission.įast forward to today and Stone Sword Games have already successfully transferred the essence of the Hogs of War into card game but are now heading to Kickstarter to bring it to the tabletop in a miniature board game.