This game took me a long time to get the hang of. The addition of these two numbers is that army’s total strength. The strength of each army is based on manpower and morale. Each town, port or rural area captured grants you troops to use in your battles. Each player starts in a corner of one of the thousands of randomly generated maps and works their way across the map, capturing towns and sea ports. Anywho, Hex Empire is a 4 player war game.
I mean, mathematically, it’s a slightly more balanced system for moving pieces around a board, and such, but still, not THAT much. It locks a bunch of the options until you’re at the point of the game where you might need those options.Ī lot of strategy games use hex grids. Like I said, there’s a lot more than just this, but the game does well in balancing it all and not making anything too complicated. The highlights of the game are hiring minions to commit crimes for you, hiring henchmen to make your minions work harder, killing those henchmen when they lose their value or get too insubordinate and defending your base from waves of military. It’s really not very complicated, but it’s just a lot of type out when you could and should just go play yourself. The game has a great in-play tutorial and I’m not going to even try to explain it all here. It’s kind of a Real Time Strategy, but also kind of not. anyway, the spin-off game is a lot of fun. The fifth one was kinda weird… not terrible, but…. If you don’t know the Mastermind series, it’s a handful of 10 or so minute short animations and they’re pretty funny. The computer player is smart enough, and the game also allows for hot-seat 2 player mode. You can also change the map around, making an even more dynamic game.įor an simple as it is, Proximity is a lot of fun. You’re open to variants that strengthen adjacent allied tiles or weaken opposing ones, or both! You can change victory conditions from number of armies (total strength) or controlled territory (total hexes). You can really change a lot of the game with only a few options. The settings for the game are really what clinch it, making it great. It’s not just a matter of pattern anymore, there’s strategy and tactics and luck. Only stronger tiles can overtake weaker ones. However, in Proximity, tiles have a strength value. The game is played on a hex grid and each player takes their turn placing tiles on the board. The first is a game I first found YEARS ago, called Proximity. So, I’m here to highlight some of my favorite games from Newgrounds. Also, a lot of “professional” gaming sites post their games on Newgrounds as well. There’s a lot of real gems in there (if you stick to the highest rated lists). A lot of people don’t like Newgrounds as it’s all user submitted, but that’s part of why I like it. Personally, I like Newgrounds for my gaming. My point is, there are a million and one games on the web. There’s tons of sites out there solely for games and even more that are for mainly something else, but post a bunch of games as well. These games couldn’t really ever have a physical version. Online games have a lot of advantages over board games in that you have a computer to do calculations for you. I’m focusing just on the last one for now.
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