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Sentinels of the Multiverse
File:SOTM-Box-cover.jpg
Cover art
DesignersChristopher Badell
Adam Rebottaro
Paul Bender
PublishersGreater Than Games
Players2 to 5
Setup time5 minutes
Playing time45-60 minutes
Age range13 and up

Sentinels of the Multiverse is a designer card game published by Greater Than Games and released at Gen Con 2011. It is a cooperative game in which players control a team of comic book-style heroes battling a villain. Each player controls a different hero, while a villain and environment deck each run themselves. A given game includes 3 to 5 heroes, 1 villain and 1 environment, which can be mixed and matched to create a number of different scenarios. The core game comes with 10 heroes, 4 villains, and 4 environments.

Gameplay

The game mechanics of Sentinels of the Multiverse include aspects that are somewhat similar to a variety of other card games, including Magic: The Gathering and Dominion. Each hero comes with a fixed deck of 40 cards, as well a "character card" that specifies initial hit points (HP) for that hero as well as an innate power. On their turns, the players may each play a card, use one of several "powers" provided by cards, and draw a card. On the villain and environment turns, the players reveal the top card of the villain and environment decks, respectively, and perform the specified actions. When a hero is reduced to 0 HP, they lose the ability to use cards or powers, but remain in the game as an "incapacitated hero" with a fixed set of abilities with which they may aid their allies. The game generally ends when either all heroes are incapacitated, or the villain is reduced to 0 or fewer HP, though some villains include alternate win conditions.

Reception

Sentinels of the Multiverse has been well received by players and critics since its launch, with Tom Vasel of The Dice Tower podcast giving it the #1 slot in his "top 30 games to look out for from Gen Con 2011",[1] and the review blog Giant Fire Breathing Robot awarding it "Board Game of the Year: 2011".[2] Reviewers generally praised the art and gameplay, while criticizing the small box, lack of HP trackers, and difficulty scaling among different numbers of players.[3][4]

Expansions

Greater Than Games released an expansion, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Rook City in the spring of 2012. The expansion added 2 heroes, 4 villains and 2 environments to the base game. The villains in Rook City also include an H icon in some cards, which represents the number of heroes in the game, as a way to improve scaling. The cards used in Rook City are also of a better and thicker cardstock as compared to the base game.

In the autumn of 2012 Greater Than Games released their second expansion, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Infernal Relics. Similar to Rook City, this expansion added an additional 2 heroes, 4 villains and 2 environments to the game. This expansions also introduced the concept of a super villain group, containing multiple villain characters in a single deck. This expansion is currently unavailable for purchase from "Greater Than Games", as it is out of stock (according to their website "until December"). Greater Than Games has announced the original Rook City box-set will not be reprinted (but will instead be packaged with the "Infernal Relics" expansion in order to simplify shipping and storage), copies of Rook City have sold in online auctions for upwards of 500~1,000 US dollars.

At the same time, Greater Than Games also released a new edition of the base game, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Enhanced Edition. This edition of the game has minor change to some of the cards and added the H icon to the base game's villain to improve their scalability. A better box with built in storage inserts were also introduced with this edition along with dividers for all of the deck available to date. Other improvement includes better card stocks for all the cards and new artwork for the environment cards in line with what was introduced with Rook City and Infernal Relics. 162 tokens were also included in the new edition to help keep track of damage and the various different types of modifier in games.

In spring of 2013, Greater Than Games released the third Expansion, Sentinels of the Multiverse: Shattered Timelines. Similar to Rook City and Infernal Relics, this expansion added 2 heroes, 4 villains, and 2 environments to the game.[5] The Shattered Timelines expansion will feature the winning fan-created villain from the Create a Villain Contest run by Greater Than Games in September 2012.[6] The expansion was supported by a Kickstarter campaign that ended successfully on November 29, 2012, having raised $185,200.[7]

During the Shattered Timelines Kickstarter Campaign, Greater Than Games announced that they would use some of the funds raised during that campaign to help finance their fourth expansion Sentinels of the Multiverse: Vengeance.[8] The Greater Than Games team has announced that this will be a "mega-expansion" which will not follow the same format as the previous expansions. Vengeance is available as of February 2014.[9]

Heroes

The current heroes in the game include:

Base Game

  • Legacy
  • Absolute Zero
  • Wraith
  • Tachyon
  • Bunker
  • Haka
  • Fanatic
  • Visionary
  • Ra
  • Tempest

Rook City

  • Expatriette
  • Mr. Fixer

Infernal Relics

  • The Argent Adept
  • Nightmist

Shattered Timelines

  • Chrono Ranger
  • Omnitron-X

Vengeance

  • K.N.Y.F.E.
  • The Naturalist
  • Parse
  • The Sentinels
  • Setback

Mini-Expansions

  • Unity
  • The Scholar

Promotional Characters

  • America's Newest Legacy (AKA "Young Legacy")
  • Rook City Wraith
  • Ra: Horus of Two Horizons
  • Redeemer Fanatic
  • Dark Visionary
  • The Eternal Haka
  • Freedom Six Team Leader Tachyon
  • Freedom Six Wraith: Price of Freedom
  • Freedom Six Unity
  • Freedom Six Bunker: Engine of War
  • Freedom Six Absolute Zero
  • Freedom Six Tempest
  • Dark Watch Expatriette
  • Dark Watch Mr. Fixer
  • Dark Watch Nightmist
  • Dark Watch Setback
  • America's Greatest Legacy
  • G.I. Bunker

Villains

The current list of villains in the game include:

Base Game

  • Citizen Dawn
  • Baron Blade
  • Grand Warlord Voss
  • Omnitron

Rook City

  • The Matriarch
  • The Chairman
  • Plague Rat
  • Spite

Infernal Relics

  • Akash'bhuta
  • Apostate
  • Gloom Weaver
  • The Ennead

Shattered Timelines

  • The Dreamer
  • La Capitan
  • Kismet
  • Iron Legacy

Vengeance

  • Fright Train
  • Ermine
  • Vengeful Baron Blade
  • Friction
  • Proletariat

Mini-Expansions

  • Ambuscade
  • Miss Information

Promotional Characters

  • Mad Bomber Blade
  • Cosmic Omnitron
  • Spite: Agent of Gloom
  • Skinwalker Gloomweaver

Environments

Base Game

  • Insula Primalis
  • Megalopolis
  • Ruins of Atlantis
  • Wagner Mars Base

Rook City

  • Pike Industrial Complex
  • Rook City

Infernal Relics

  • Realm of Discord
  • Tomb of Anubis

Shattered Timelines

  • The Block
  • Time Cataclysym

Vengeance

  • Freedom Tower
  • Mobile Defense Platform

Mini-Expansions

  • Final Wasteland
  • Silver Gulch

Number of Cards

  • The core game, either original or Enhanced Edition, has 578 cards. (41 for each of ten heroes; 27 for each of four villains; 15 for each of four environments)
  • The Rook City expansion has 222 cards. (41 for each of two heroes; 27 for each of four villains; 15 for each of two environments; two extra for the Operative)
  • The Infernal Relics expansion has 228 cards. (41 for each of two heroes; 27 for each of four villains; 15 for each of two environments; eight extra for the Ennead)
  • The Shattered Timelines expansion has 220 cards. (41 for each of two heroes; 27 for each of four villains; 15 for each of two environments)
  • The six mini-expansions collectively have 166 cards. (41 for each of two heroes; 27 for each of two villains; 15 for each of two environments)
  • There are 14 promo hero character cards. (1 each for fourteen promo heroes. America's Greatest Legacy and GI Bunker have not yet been published)
  • There are 4 promo villain character cards. (2 each for two promo villains)
  • The total number of cards is 1,434.

(Note: This count is of "normal" sized cards; it does not include the over-sized villain cards.)

References

  1. ^ http://www.dicetower.com/top_ten_lists/current-top-ten-list-tom-s-top-30-games-to-look-out-for-from-gen-con-2011.html
  2. ^ http://gfbrobot.com/2011/12/01/variant-and-the-board-game-of-the-year-goes-to/
  3. ^ http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/15/15483.phtml
  4. ^ http://opinionatedgamers.com/2011/11/21/review-sentinels-of-the-multiverse/
  5. ^ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gtgames/sentinels-of-the-multiverse-shattered-timelines
  6. ^ http://sentinelsofthemultiverse.com/blog/2012/08/create-villain-contest
  7. ^ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gtgames/sentinels-of-the-multiverse-shattered-timelines
  8. ^ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gtgames/sentinels-of-the-multiverse-shattered-timelines/posts/357084
  9. ^ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gtgames/sentinels-of-the-multiverse-shattered-timelines/posts/567509

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