Hi everybody and welcome to this new video review of a board game. Today it's not a uniform or airsoft gun video review, it's a game, created by Thibaud de la Touanne, from Triton Noir. (distributed in France by Morning)
What's the game's principle? The game V-Commandos is a stealth game. As his name indicate, you'll play as commandos. You'll have 5 different characters available, in the main box. Add-ons will be available later.
All the characters will have their own capacities, to use on each terrain. Invite your friend to join you, the game can be in solo mode, but also in multiplayers. We can play with 4 players.
The goal is to be a character, to bring him from a point A to a point C, passing by the point B, which is the objective to reach, while being as stealthy as possible.
I'll do a quick overview on the game, but in the next months, you'll can discover the game in situation with friends.
In the box, we'll can find Tiles of different sizes: little, medium and large. Each size will have its own caracteristics. We have characters cards, events cards, we have 12 dices, customized with an eye for the 1 and 2.
We have many enemies, with a few enemies as elite units. We have characters to escort. We have +1/-1 tokens (actions to keep, or injury system), and we have equipment tokens.
Equipment placed on the board when you kill germans. When you eliminate a german, you replace the token by an equipment token, which can be double edged.
Because in the equipement tokens, there are tokens with an eye, which show you've been spotted.
We have many operation cards, with the historical context, the place and date of the real operation. At the back, special rules for each terrain (for the difficulty). And at last, we have the configuration of the terrains.
Here we have "battleship" and "Central tower", which correspond to these maps. Once the goal of the first terrain are completed and at least one commando is still alive, you can go on the second terrain.
It's to know there always are enemies on triangle tokens. So at the beginning, there will be enemies from the beginning.
How a game turn takes place? Firstly, you'll draw an event card. We have a lot of events, with an action to do by commandos, or by the enemies. Sometimes you'll have 2 differents states: Alarm activated or silent alarm.
And below you'll see the direction of the enemies when it will be their move step.
The first commando will move accross a trap (one action spent).
What's this system of actions? Each player have 3 actions to do on each game turn. Each time your character is hit by a shoot, he loses one action. 2nd shoot: 2nd action lost. When he loses his 3 actions, he's in critical mode.
You'll use the special token for this state. Now you have one game turn to save him, or he will die.
So theses actions can be used to ... make actions! Move on a little tile: 1 action. Move on medium tile : one action and you'll become visible, or 2 actions to move stealthy. Move on a large tile automatically make you visible, so it will be 1 action.
After there are different pipes to go accross a large tile without being spotted, like the german uniform, available in equipement tokens.
Once all your commandos has moved, so we passe to the enemies' moves step. So you'll move the enemy in function of the move of the event card, and they'll attack your visible commandos within range.
Here, the move is to the south, so all the enemies will move to the south, except if one commando is visible, so the enemies will move to get closer to him.
Be careful, it you are not visible on a tile with a spotted friend, you'll never be hit, because you're invisible. Your friend will take all the damages! Hence the interest of staying stealthy.
So the goal is to reach all the objectives and having at least 1 commando alive, to make pass accross one of the trap provided for this purpose. There are 2 versions of traps: opened and closed. It's closed? So spend one action to open it.
When all the enemies are used, you lose the game. Because you've been submerged.
How to stay stealthy? First action : Use sound weapons as little as possible. For example, there are 2 versions of the Sten : with and without silencer.
It's the first mean : use quiet weapons. When you use MG42, you're spotted, it's logic!
Second way : when you come on a tile with an enemy (or the enemy comes to you), the stealth check is negative. So you stay stealthy if you don't get the 1 or the 2 of the dice. If you get 1 or 2, you're spotted and the enemy will attack you.
The third way to stay stealthy is to not take a "visible" token. But it's just depending of your luck, or not!
There are many ways to become stealthy again, like the german uniform, or to come on a little tile, where you can be easilier hidden.
How does the fighting take place, when you're in contact with an enemy ?
First, you'll engage one enemy. If there are several enemies on the same tile, you can engage them all. If there are several enemis on several tiles, you have to spend 2 actions to attack them.
If the enemies are on an adjacent tile : outdoor, or indoor with an opened door.
After, you roll the number of dices indicated by the number of the white squares on the token of the used weapon.
Thompson : 2 dices. Sten : 2 dices. MP40 : 2 dices. STG44 : 3 dices. MG42 : 4 dices.
You roll and after you have to refer to the number on the tile where are the enemies. For a little tile : 4+. So all the dices <= 4 hit. For a large tile, it's harder to hide, but it's easier to hit. So it's 2+.
Other equipment can be used, like the TNT, which will destroy all on a tile. The crowbar can be used to open or lock a door. When you lock an enemy truck, you'll prevent enemies to come on the terrain.
But when you reach 4 enemies, because they will continue to come with each turn. When 4 enemies are waiting to enter, they break the crowbar, and 4 enemies will be on the terrain.
Here is the conclusion of this video review of V-Commandos. If you liked it, don't hesitate to share it, subscribe to my channel and add a blue thumb.
Visit the facebook group of V-Commandos, the link is in the description. Go to your favorite shops to know the date of the release, if it's not already the case.
Don't hesitate to ask anything in the comments, I'll answer it. It can be interesting to have different points of view about this game. There are many points to detail with practical cases on the multiplayers game.
Anyway, it will be with a great pleasure I'll see you soon for uniform video review, airsoft gun video review, or board game video review!
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