ISS Vanguard in about 3 minutes

ISS Vanguard in about 3 minutes

Designer,Andrzej Betkiewicz, Krzysztof Piskorski, Paweł Samborski, Marcin Świerkot,
Artist,Piotr Gacek, Patryk Jędraszek, Ewa Labak, Dominik Mayer,
Publisher,Awaken Realms,

3 minute board games theme Music by Vic Granell

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[MBG]

So yeah, on patreon i went into this in more detail. But a lot of emotions around this, I did 8 missions on 4 planets (tutorial planet twice), which is enough to learn the game and have an understanding of what its about, but not enough to feel like I got remotely everything i wanted out of the game, which is a me issue. Sandwiched between Oathsworn and Frosthaven thats coming up, plus general time pressure, i'm a bit saddened i might not come back to it for a while, because i really want to finish it.

Great game, but dont buy it unless you can commit to it

[AlwayzFresh]

There is one word that almost all reviewers have used when describing this game..."Special". There are many other words thrown around like "epic", "amazing", "sprawling" etc. but rarely do you get special. This is looking to be a must experience/have.

[antoniovistcoatis]

Man, I want this game. But, no way my group will want to see it through and I cannot see me doing it solo. Still what a rad looking game!

[inspiredgame]

Love how concise this video is, while also being thorough. 👌
We love this game. When we can find time to play it!

[Paul-ropy]

Thank you for the great synopsis, really looking forward to this game. Backed with extras and single wave shipping so may be a while before I see it. Presently playing Sleeping gods with my son, and look forward to our space adventures in the future.

[MrTroxel]

Dang, this looks like a great project for Flaming Fowl to digitize. They did a great job with Gloomhaven.

[terryH]

Love prestige, intriguing insight into the industry; The Illusionist (magician solving a murder case) is also very neat 😊

[LizT-qxxl]

I remember staring at this and Unsettled. I settled on Unsettled (ha!) because of the paperwork. I'm always up for a good campaign game, but Vanguard seems to go all in.

[charlietwoteas]

Confused this with Stars of Akarios at first. Having multiple ambitious space campaign epics released almost at once paints a fairly positive picture of the market for board games just now. Looks like an interesting game but one that I really can't afford or dedicate the time to.

[JohnnyMcNabb]

I love the game. The main negative I have is that ship/planet phase takes 4+ hours. So it’s not something I can just pull out and play.

[piotrp]

Looks like the game I want to become an app. Will save me a lot of time and would be probably much funnier. As I don't like an app in my board game I hope they will go full-app on this someday. Will be cheaper too.

[ferricry]

Just 9 more months... can't wait!

[jakecrowe]

I’ve been hesitant about this game as some reviews haven’t been quite favorable, but it’s intriguing me more and more as I dig into other reviews. Have you finished it?

[OverlordZephyros]

This sounds like a game i would love, but the play time kills it for me. Definitely not something for an afternoon meeting with friends lol

[xhrsex]

I saw someone on reddit describe this game as essentially Mass Effect in boardgame form. For anyone that has played this game, would you say that is an accurate assessment?

[jarrattgray]

I think the game does some great things and then a lot of Awaken Realms things.

It delivers on the feel of an epic space mission. It’s great to see people die. The ship management is very satisfying and the app really adds to the feel.

But the figures are unnecessary and burdensome, the card management would be better as a computer game and the actual gameplay boils down some simple dice rolling challenges.

It feels more streamlined than both Tainted Grail and Etherfields because the upkeep grind is gone and replaced with the ship management and space exploration phase which is great.

I think Etherfields is far more interesting in the dungeon crawl aspect. Each adventure feels special and interesting and the puzzle to solve is done through hand management. The landing phase is easily the weakest part of ISS Vanguard. Though I suspect it probably feels more intense with more people and higher difficulty. So it could be a me problem. I played Etherfields with 4 and this with 1.

[citruesilver]

Still waiting impatiently for my copy...

[explorer]

Wonder how this compares to stars of Akarios

[mattmc]

This was one of my first kickstarter backs. Sadly it has now taught me that you NEVER pick one wave shipping. No where did they educate you that it may add a year or two to you getting the game. I’m so disappointed by that lack of info. Glad people are enjoying it, just angry AR gets to keep my money for an extra year or two for a game that is available today.

[DarthPP]

This is going to fall in the same category as E.V.E. Online, fun to discuas but only a small percentage of people will actually play it intensively.