Codex: Card-time Strategy – Deluxe Set

Should this hit the table?

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The game has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players need to pay attention to others' strategies and turns fairly frequently. However, there is not much emphasis on cooperation in the game.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.9

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 4.2

More strategic control

Table feel

The game has a moderate level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players need to pay attention to others' strategies and turns fairly frequently. However, there is not much emphasis on cooperation in the game.

Replay value

The Codex: Card-Time Strategy - Deluxe Set has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, availability of expansions, deep strategic depth, and good scalability. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with multiple paths to victory and variable setups. The expansions add new content and gameplay elements, enhancing the replay value. Players have ample room to improve their strategy over time, discovering new tactics and strategies. The game adapts well to different player counts without compromising its appeal or balance. While it may not be the easiest game to learn, it offers a good balance between ease of learning and depth of gameplay.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Codex: Card-Time Strategy - Deluxe Set is 8.33 out of 10. This indicates that the game has minimal reliance on luck and instead heavily relies on player decisions and strategy. Random elements have a minimal impact on the game outcome, and players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. Overall, luck plays a minor role in determining the game outcome.

Overview

What ABG knows about this game

Codex: Card-Time Strategy is a customizable, non-collectible card game set in the Fantasy Strike universe that's inspired by real-time strategy video games such as Starcraft and Warcraft 3. Players each control three different heroes and have access to a tech tree that allows them to use different strategies each time they play. The goal of the game is to destroy the opponent's base. To do this, players build up an army of units and heroes. Players determine the exact composition of their armies as they play by adding cards to their deck based on the tech they've chosen to pursue.

Mechanism

6

Deck Construction Deck, Bag, and Pool Building Hand Management Secret Unit Deployment Take That Variable Player Powers

Family

3

Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Digital Implementations: VASSAL Series: Fantasy Strike (Sirlin)

Type

2

Customizable Strategy

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