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1980 Ranked #11,580

Robots!

Coordinate with teammates to solve the game's shared challenge.

Wargames Children's Game Science Fiction Hexagon Grid Cooperative Game

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.63/5

Rating

6.18

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Robots is a post-apocalyptic game of humans mining Earth using robotic machines, after Earth has been wiped out in a series of World Wars. As usual someone wants all of the mining wealth so a war is started using the robots.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Cooperative Game

Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Hexagon Grid

Use a hexagonal map where each space connects evenly in six directions.
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Robots is a post-apocalyptic game of humans mining Earth using robotic machines, after Earth has been wiped out in a series of World Wars. As usual someone wants all of the mining wealth so a war is started using the robots. The game has a mechanic of creating/building the robots you use after collecting the resources you need to build them. This one of the pocket games from Task Force Games.

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Type

1
Wargames

Category

3
Children's Game Science Fiction Wargame

Mechanism

3
Cooperative Game Dice Rolling Hexagon Grid

Family

3
Admin: Better Description Needed! Theme: Robots Series: Pocket Games (Task Force Games)

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
120 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.6/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
William Ferguson, III Mike Joslyn

Artists

5
Alvin Belflower Bob Bingham R. Vance Buck Allen D. Eldridge Stephen G. Wilcox

Publishers

1
Task Force Games

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