First Amazon Review from the UK!
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 October 2023
I have been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to play this during it's beta stages. After a short while browsing the rules and then reading it properly I decided to have a go at this. It takes a little while to set things up but even that can be fun to be honest. You can use either one of the basic 2D terrain maps that are available all over the internet and various stores, or if you are fortunate to have a 3D printer, you may already have some terrain and scatter that you can use to set up a field of battle.
The thing I liked about this game from the start is that it does not require a large elaborate battle ground. It can be played in pretty much any map you can dream up. A pub fight? No problem! Night Clubs, shopping malls, even just a car park if you can't be bothered with dealing with furniture. It's all good.
Rules in here cover everything you could possibly want to do and then some, and the penalties or difficulties of certain types of terrain - such as the benches and tables in a burger bar for example. Setting up a character is a relatively simple task and unlike so many other skirmish and battle games, there isn't a huge number of stats to fill, no random playing cards to assign and random cards to cause you trouble you aren't prepared for.
The character you create in Guncraze can pretty much be anything you can imagine up. Fed up waitress in a diner looking to take down a really annoying customer? Sorted. Heavily armed merc cleaning up the streets? Sorted. Sneaky back-stabbing shadow? Sorted.
The game does provide some cards to help flesh things out - like starter characters, but it is not reliant on cards to play. Unlike some other games I've played where the provided cards are everything and you are reliant on having a lucky (good) hand, Guncraze can ignore all that. Your stats, your character and - more importantly YOUR choices govern how this combat will go.
Easy to set up and one of the best ways to waste a couple hours on a rainy weekend afternoon, or quiet evening. Urban combat at it's most simple, most fun and in some ways, most challenging.
Challenging? you say, How? Well, there you are, facing off against your loved one, partner, best friend or sibling across the table... Do you have the courage to take the field or will you whimp out and let them win? There's a heck of a challenge to start with.
One nice thing about this particular game is that it is just about the easiest skirmish game I have ever played. It is straight forward, simple to follow and understand and leads to an enormous amount of fun because your imagination is the only barrier here. If you can think of something to do, this game will let you do that. Want a full on John Woo scenic destruction battle with all the sliding, jumping, gliding and furniture fun that goes with it? Guncraze can let you do that. Or, perhaps you would rather play a short stalker game, two people facing off against each other in a darkened warehouse to see who has the greater tactical skill. Yeah, can do that too.
The other really nice thing, is if you pop along to the author's website, they have some downloadable goodies there - character cards, maps and other stuff you can use to get straight into the game. This works well for 2D simple maps for a fast skirmish to waste some time, or you can set up more complex obstacle heavy game boards. It's all good.
Oh, I almost forgot the John Woo part of this. Craze points. You want to do something completely insane? Say, something like a swan dive off the second balcony of the night-club, landing on the scalloped awning over the central bar, sliding along that and off onto a packing trolley filled with beer crates - while emptying your dual wield Glock 19s? Really? You actually want to do that? No other game will let you, but this one will. Craze points let you go a little bit crazy.
Seriously though, best fun I've had for years and it was painless to set up and play. You can't ask for more than that out of a game.
Also, if you want a bit more out of this, the author is working on a full blown Role Playing Game (RPG) all based around the Guncraze rules. So, if you feel so inclined, you can take your skirmish character and seamlessly integrate them into a full game campaign. It doesn't get much better than that.
Money well spent, because it's the best - cheapest fun I've had for a long time, and this one just keeps getting better each time we play it.
The thing I liked about this game from the start is that it does not require a large elaborate battle ground. It can be played in pretty much any map you can dream up. A pub fight? No problem! Night Clubs, shopping malls, even just a car park if you can't be bothered with dealing with furniture. It's all good.
Rules in here cover everything you could possibly want to do and then some, and the penalties or difficulties of certain types of terrain - such as the benches and tables in a burger bar for example. Setting up a character is a relatively simple task and unlike so many other skirmish and battle games, there isn't a huge number of stats to fill, no random playing cards to assign and random cards to cause you trouble you aren't prepared for.
The character you create in Guncraze can pretty much be anything you can imagine up. Fed up waitress in a diner looking to take down a really annoying customer? Sorted. Heavily armed merc cleaning up the streets? Sorted. Sneaky back-stabbing shadow? Sorted.
The game does provide some cards to help flesh things out - like starter characters, but it is not reliant on cards to play. Unlike some other games I've played where the provided cards are everything and you are reliant on having a lucky (good) hand, Guncraze can ignore all that. Your stats, your character and - more importantly YOUR choices govern how this combat will go.
Easy to set up and one of the best ways to waste a couple hours on a rainy weekend afternoon, or quiet evening. Urban combat at it's most simple, most fun and in some ways, most challenging.
Challenging? you say, How? Well, there you are, facing off against your loved one, partner, best friend or sibling across the table... Do you have the courage to take the field or will you whimp out and let them win? There's a heck of a challenge to start with.
One nice thing about this particular game is that it is just about the easiest skirmish game I have ever played. It is straight forward, simple to follow and understand and leads to an enormous amount of fun because your imagination is the only barrier here. If you can think of something to do, this game will let you do that. Want a full on John Woo scenic destruction battle with all the sliding, jumping, gliding and furniture fun that goes with it? Guncraze can let you do that. Or, perhaps you would rather play a short stalker game, two people facing off against each other in a darkened warehouse to see who has the greater tactical skill. Yeah, can do that too.
The other really nice thing, is if you pop along to the author's website, they have some downloadable goodies there - character cards, maps and other stuff you can use to get straight into the game. This works well for 2D simple maps for a fast skirmish to waste some time, or you can set up more complex obstacle heavy game boards. It's all good.
Oh, I almost forgot the John Woo part of this. Craze points. You want to do something completely insane? Say, something like a swan dive off the second balcony of the night-club, landing on the scalloped awning over the central bar, sliding along that and off onto a packing trolley filled with beer crates - while emptying your dual wield Glock 19s? Really? You actually want to do that? No other game will let you, but this one will. Craze points let you go a little bit crazy.
Seriously though, best fun I've had for years and it was painless to set up and play. You can't ask for more than that out of a game.
Also, if you want a bit more out of this, the author is working on a full blown Role Playing Game (RPG) all based around the Guncraze rules. So, if you feel so inclined, you can take your skirmish character and seamlessly integrate them into a full game campaign. It doesn't get much better than that.
Money well spent, because it's the best - cheapest fun I've had for a long time, and this one just keeps getting better each time we play it.
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