Lockup + Breakout Expansion! A Roll Player Tale Review!

Lockup + Breakout Expansion! A Roll Player Tale Review! on Rolling with the Beard
During the Dragul Invasion of Nalos, King Taron’s loyal soldiers throw captured minions into Kulbak Prison, where enchanted gates and Construct guards make escape all but impossible. Once each year, Taron releases the toughest gang of war prisoners into the royal Colosseum.
You command a squadron of these captured Dragul. Gather goons and craft contraband to raise your reputation. Keep your suspicion with the guards low while establishing yourself as the most powerful crew in Kulbak. In six short days, Taron may offer you the chance to fight for your freedom.
Lockup: A Roll Player Tale is a competitive worker-allocation game for one to five players. In the game, players manage groups of minions -- gnolls, kobolds, bugbears, goblins, or insectoids -- locked up in Kulbak Prison.
Each round, players try to keep their suspicion from the guards under control while allocating their crew to different locations within Kulbak. The player with the strongest crew in each location at the end of each round gains the most resources, hires the most powerful crew, and builds the most powerful items, increases their reputation. The player with the highest reputation at the end of six rounds, wins the game.
Lockup is a worker placement game set in the Roll Player universe.
Play takes place over three phases in each round:
Roll Call - Players take turns placing their minions in different parts of the prison, some face up showing a unit's strength and some face down, hiding the strength from the other players.
Lights Out - Each area with minions is scored based on the strength of each player's crew. Players receive resources and have the opportunity to recruit goons and build items.
Patrol Phase - New resources are placed on the gameboard, and the guards patrol the dungeon. Players with high suspicion are raided, and their chambers are searched.
-description from the publisher
Everyone in Kulbak has heard rumor of secret passages that run beneath the prison. Ages ago, the catacombs carved into these mountains were used to house fallen heroes. Queen Gimnax built a prison over this sacred site during the Great War, enclosing those ghosts and their treasure behind its walls.
Some say the catacombs lead to the tomb of Khathandor, greatest of the Dragul warriors. Others swear that the real treasure to be found in the tunnels beneath Kulbak is a crack in the prison’s outer wall. To find the truth, you’ll have to send your seeker to explore the crumbling catacombs by lantern light.
New opportunities await you above ground, too, as you influence the legendary characters who inhabit the prison. Strike a deal with Warden Mercy. Make a truce with Masik and his Starlit Door cultists. Commune with the spirit of Khathandor. Gain their favor while you probe the hidden history of Kulbak in search of gold and freedom.
In Lockup: Breakout, players can earn reputation stars in new ways by sending their seekers to explore the catacombs beneath the prison and by dedicating crew to influence the legendary inhabitants of Kulbak.
Gain the most reputation stars over six rounds by crafting items, recruiting goons, influencing legends, and exploring the catacombs - all while avoiding the suspicion of the guards.
As in the core game, the player with the most reputation stars wins!
-description from publisher

[@davidhydaslone5386]

I think I rolled over the Beard in this game😂😂

[@rollingwiththebeard]

Yeah yeah yeah. Humble brag. Lol

[@min2724]

I loved the video and the way you presented/reviewed it up until 8:30. RIFFLE SHUFFLE??? WHAT ARE YOU DOING???????????

[@rollingwiththebeard]

@@min2724 I'm just an animal like that! Hey, I've seen people Riffle shuffle SLEEVED cards!

[@gozzywozzy485]

Lockup is a fanatastic game! Great fun. My group enjoys it every time it hits the table

[@rollingwiththebeard]

Yes it is! Have you tried the Breakout expansion?

[@gozzywozzy485]

@@rollingwiththebeard yep! We never play without it

[@rollingwiththebeard]

@@gozzywozzy485 same. It adds just enough. Plus, who wants to remove the goon cards once they are shuffled together!? Not I. 😃

[@gozzywozzy485]

@@rollingwiththebeard haha indeed! Those extra brutes are great, and some of them really spice it up! The only thing that could do with some refinement is the setup for the tunnels. I feel that part is a little clunky, but everything else is great. I would never play this game at less than 5 anymore though. I love the tightness with max player count, it gives great tension and some standup moments!

[@rollingwiththebeard]

@@gozzywozzy485 I do agree on the tightness but a 5 player game is almost too much for my tiny brain! Lol Idk why. I'm not a super competitive person but this game at 5 players gives me AP sometimes. "If I go there, I can get the green cubes I need but I might get a bad position in the crafting....but Mike probably won't craft, he only has one Grey cube....but wait, Tony still has 4 crew members.....and so on! lol It's not a problem with the game but a ME problem!