Voltron - The People Speak

Now that the Voltron battle miniatures game is officially released, we’re hearing a lot of great things. Rather than spout more of my own opinions, here’s what the people have to say . . .

We’ll start off with a quote from Chris Miller, an avid gamer and blogger, who says, “Each piece is characterful and has an impact. I love how even the lowliest of units plays a critical role by securing a fueling station or other map feature. Meanwhile I’m constantly juggling the location of my Morphers in my head, trying to decide which abilities I want on which part of the map. The depth level of the game is deceptive.”

Josh Gremillion, winner of GenCon Masters 2009, says, “I really like the slight differences between the Good Guys and the Bad Guys in the set too. Giving all the Skull ships and Lotron morphers Hit and Run promotes a selfish, all-for-me kind of ‘glory hog’ or ’save myself’ approach to play, while Synchronized Move on the Garrison Cruisers and Lions promotes selfless acts of heroics and teamwork.”

After a day of running Voltron demos for his locals in Hawaii, “Falsekrak” said, “One of the best comments was they liked the fact that all that fun was packed in a nice compact box. Easy to take along. Easy to set up. Easy to teach. All in all a great way to introduce new people to the game we love. There is just enough in the box to get a great gameplay experience, and just enough to get new players a taste of what Monsterpocalypse has to offer.”

“Babalbin” from California focuses on the element of expanding into Monsterpocalpyse games when he calls Voltron “a fun addition to Monsterpocalypse and worthwhile to add to a standard Monsterpocalypse game. There are some really neat things that can be done with both Lo-Tron and Voltron in conjunction with established Monsterpocalypse forces.”

Last but not least, Marc Gramatges had quite a bit to say about Voltron, and the following is merely a snippet of his story of his first Voltron Battle Miniatures Game experience.

“In no time at all we were throwing down. Ben had never played Monsterpocalypse so this was a good test to see how easy Voltron was to play. Both of us loved the sculpts and he was particularly fond of the skull ships. Being a Cthul player I picked up Lo-Tron, quite surprised and happy to see that they are Fiends and that Voltron are Protectors. I explained to Ben how this means we could mix them with Monsterpocalypse easily, as he would see later. We played the SuperNova map, mostly because it was the side we opened up to. What I loved about the map was that all the rules were right there. Not once did I have to break down what different items on the board were.

We started playing without even going over the rulebook, and Ben was able to pick it up from me making my turn and seeing what I was doing. On his lion’s turn I showed him the power attacks and before I knew it I was being body slammed into the supernova (not a good place to be). The game was fast and quickly we were in Ultra form, with Lo-Tron and Voltron slugging it out. Another body slam or two into the Nova later, I was defeated and Voltron saved the universe.

In summary, Voltron is a beautiful game that is easy to pick up and quick to play. One of the greatest benefits of the game is how it lets you learn the rules quickly and jump right into Monsterpocalypse with the very same models you were just using. I fully intend to use Voltron as a lead in to running Monsterpocalypse Demos because of this fact.

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