The armiesвЂ™ themes get a bit lost, but in the tense experience youвЂ™ll hardly notice. Monolith Arena claims itвЂ™s a skirmish game but in play itвЂ™s so elegant itвЂ™s almost abstract. Our Hex boards are produced using lasercarving technics. All boards are uniquely numbered, so you can register your Hexboard here. A beautiful game deserves an equally beautiful playing board. The four forces are pleasantly different, and the art is impressionistic not hyper-real fantasy. This site is a tribute to the wonderful, surprising, brilliant and fascinating game of Hex. Play is fast and tactical: you place tiles, jockeying for position and highest initiative, and then battle is joined вЂ“ this happens several times each game вЂ“ and special attacks trigger, and it doesnвЂ™t go the way you expected. Ultimately you need to defend your banner, which sits atop your monolith: a stack of counters that can unfurl into three pieces across the battlefield, which is not exciting enough to have the game named after it and fundamentally misunderstands what the вЂmonoвЂ™ part of the word means. When battle is declared every champion on all sides resolves its attacks in initiative order, and suddenly the arena is a lot emptier than it was before, because most champions can only take one point of damage. But arena combat between colour-based forces made of hex tiles looks very similar.Д®ach side is a pile of hex counters that includes champions, runes that power up champions and order tiles that let champions do things they canвЂ™t normally do like move, rotate, push an opposing unit away or declare battle. You could say itвЂ™s a fantasy reskin of Neuroshima Hex, but the box doesnвЂ™t say that, and IвЂ™ve never played Neuroshima Hex so I canвЂ™t judge for sure. Monolith Arena, by the designer of Neuroshima Hex, is very like Neuroshima Hex. You learn a new game, and halfway through the rules explanation someone says, вЂњSo itвЂ™s like Neuroshima Hex, then?вЂќ There are moments in a reviewerвЂ™s life where you want to punch something.

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