GKR: Heavy Hitters gameplay

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From the miscreants at Weta Workshop and Cryptozoic comes Weta Workshop’s first tabletop game, set in the sports-crazy dystopian future of Giant Killer Robots!
The story goes like this...Big plague. People died. Governments fell over. Things got bad, real fast. Fortunately, the corporations saved the day! Under their command, things got a whole lot better. But what to do with all those abandoned cites? There’s money to be made in the salvage rights. But which corporation gets them? Enter the Giant Killer Robots League.
GKR: Heavy Hitters is a standalone, deck-building tabletop game for 2-4 players, combining high-quality collectibles with dice-rolling, card-building and tactical play! Pilot your Heavy Hitter (the biggest, baddest robot on the board) and a squad of three Support Units through the ruins of an old city, competing to either wipe your opponent off the map or reduce four skyscrapers to rubble.

[@AlexanderEddy]

I noticed a bit of a fringe rule case at 15:38 - the Thunderstrike Missiles do 7 damage if the target is in the 5-6 range, but with the range boost sponsor card it's possible that they could hit at 7 range. I guess you could interpret that as meaning that they only do 6, but it seems like the intention is to reward someone using that weapon for shooting at distant targets. Maybe it could be reworded to say that the missiles do 7 damage if they hit at 5 range or greater.

[@MJRLHobbyStuff]

I wish this game wasn’t dead. More content please.

[@AirsoftTechLogan]

amazing, love the art style(has that cool pop punk vibe) and the original gameplay, would love to see a digital version of this board game for easier play when your not at a lan party, the lore is great, would love to see an anime series or a video game within the gkr universe.

[@Trueflights]

+1 to that. This game is already set up to perfectly be ported over to a strategy type video game. I can't wait to see this one hit Tabletopia or the like so I can play it with friends around the world. Already backed the board game as well though just to have it for those occasions when we're all together in the same place.

[@fatbuffalo]

7:26 "ANY ANY UNITS" whoops haha. anyway, backed the kickstarter. Hope to get the game soon!

[@williamhayden7711]

Should be "OR". Clearly these cards and other paper stock pieces are just printed and cut out. Pre-preduction as noted in the video. Still nice catch. I think you deserve a Hapsi for paying extra special attention.

[@mcctigerfan]

I can't wait for this game to release to the kickstart supporters!

[@ColrathD]

My first KS Pledge I've ever made. I'm hyped for my Christmas present this year.

[@williamhayden7711]

I've never played anything like this and have no idea if I or my kids would like something like this. It does seem interesting.

[@shoKuu]

THANKS FOR THE LATE PLEDGE OPTION! :) I could finally buy a version without a credit card. Cant wait till december.

[@crapstirrer]

seems a bit cumbersome but I like the deck/damage management mechanic.

[@super8ben]

Uh oh, my kettle is off!

[@DethCricket]

This is so awesome. I hope your KS does amazing. Sadly i wont have enough to support it :(

[@wetaworkshopnz]

Thanks for the well wishes. Very much appreciated.

[@Trueflights]

The only question I have from watching that is "Why would you ever not want to Overtag?" It seems silly to put your tag on a building and not replace someone else's. Is there some kind of penalty or reason to not overtag every time that you tag a building with someone else's already on it?

[@MehaRex306]

If I understand corectly you tag on the spot closest to you, so placement plays a big role in it. If you can safely put yourself in a position to overtag you should try to always do it. So I gues only drawback to overtaging would be if you are needlesly puting your heavy hitter in danger.

[@Trueflights]

I see that now. They had their buildings oriented wrong so that the slots for the tags didn't line up with the hexes so it looked like they were just randomly placing them. Somewhere towards the end of the video, one of them pointed out that the buildings were set up wrong and adjusting them made the tags line up, but it was already too late to bother fixing it. That makes a lot more sense.

[@Drprophetius]

How well does the game work with three players?

[@electrichorror6642]

Drprophetius 3 players FFA, or 2V1 with buildings used as bunker down style play for the out numbered player

[@fullyfilled3171]

I need this in my life and is this the final game

[@wetaworkshopnz]

Hey, Mr. Sloth. There have been some very minor adjustments since we created this video. The most up-to-date info and imagery is on the Kickstarter page. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wetaworkshop/gkr-heavy-hitters

[@jackbishop3571]

Very cool game!!

[@wetaworkshopnz]

Cheers! Really glad you like it.

[@shoKuu]

I really want to buy this game on kickstarter, but you can only buy it with an creditcard :( Here in germany many people have no credit card.

[@davedogge2280]

really ? why is that ? credit is fundamental for investment and consumption, should be in Europe's no.1 power house !

[@shoKuu]

Nah, we have many other credit forms... for cars, houses, small credits, but less creditr cards ;)

[@AlexanderEddy]

Hey Weta, was just reviewing the rules and I have a question: at 18:36, orange over tags green's tag, but green was given 2 sponsor cards. Does that mean that even if a tag is overtagged in the same round it happened, the initial tag still awards a sponsor card? Thanks, very excited to play this game!

[@BertrandKintanar]

What is that black clip attached to the card sleeve on some cards?

[@electrichorror6642]

Bertrand Kintanar it is used to keep track of the support units hit points.

[@michaelmcglashan9644]

Shouldn’t the combat unit ignore partial cover because it is shooting missiles?

[@OmegaViper]

WANT :O

[@mr0shag]

This might need an update.

[@carso1500]

It has two expansions and a set of special dice based on hapsi drinks but thats about it, and yeah i would love a new game, expansión, tv series, cómic, whatever set in this universe it seems awesome

[@canadianturfsandwich1258]

Will you stop repeating ''clockwise'' please

[@ROOKTABULA]

Absurd amount of overbiggification.