Moba Teaser

7/26/2019 Moba Teaser

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1. Game overview

MOBA (massive outplay battle arena) is a fast-paced, tactical skirmish combat board gamein a not-too-serious cartoony fantasy setting. Its designed for two or more players and

one game plays in about one to two hours.

Players assemble and take command of teams consisting of 3-5 powerful heroeseach

comes with a unique set of skills, strengths and weaknesses - and try to beat the sh!t out

of each other. Combat is card driven, very fast and brutal and features heavy outplay

and bluffing elements. Heroes improve over the course of the game as they unlock new

skills for killing enemies and plunder special areas on the map for better equipment.

While being probablythe most fun part, piling up enemy hero corpses wont win you thegame (although getting some kills might be a good start): there are different objectives

on the map that need to be dominated in order to gain victory points the first player

who gains 5 victory points wins the game.


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2. Key features thats why you should definitely try Mobaout

Innovative and engaging unit activation system

The order in which heroes of both teams are activated depends on the action cards

that players choose for their heroes at the beginning of each round and changes

constantly. The correct timing of high impact actions is key!Learn more about Mobasactivation system in the short story about one of the most famous Moba heroes in

chapter 3!

Combat system which is full of tension and bluffing/outplay mechanics

Moba was designed with the overall goal in mind that

every attack and every use of an special ability

should be full of tension and actual fun!Youll

feel that because of the card driven combat

resolution hitting your opponentsheroes or

blocking and dodging incoming enemy attacks

feels really rewarding. There is a good portion of

risk management, planning ahead, luck and bluffing

involved as the attacking player chooses where and how

hard to hit the enemy hero and the defending player tries to anticipate and eventually

block those attacks!Learn more about Mobas combat system in the short story about

one of the most famous Moba heroes in chapter 3!

Hero variance and team play

Moba features a bunch of varying heroes, each with an

own and distinct play style. Heroes come

with a unique set of 4 action cards

defining their main role on the

battlefield. As you choose two action

cards at the beginning of the game there

are different possibilities to customize your

heroes to fit your overall strategy and playstyle.

Some heroes are squishy damage dealers that are

rather slow and need to be supported and protected by tanky frontline units. There areAssassins whose main purpose it is to take down priority targets and that can operate

deep behind the enemy lines deceiving and disturbing the opponents strategies. Trying

out all the different hero combos, synergies and counter play strategies is a big fun

factor of Moba!

Cartoony, colorful and humorous art style


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3. Introducing Pogba and Grunge (and some core mechanics)

Heres one of the most famous and greatest heroes of Moba: Pogba the Goblin

Marauderthe little beauty hes riding isGrunge, Pogbas Dark Wolf. On their

spare time these guys like to maraud and plunderwell, generic Goblin

stuff.Lets accompany these two cuties on a hard days bloody work!

Before riding straight into battle its training time - Pogba got 4

individual action cards at his disposal and you may unlock two of them

that he may use from the get-go:

Lets go with Bola Strikeand Wild Hunt. When things are going well, Pogba may unlock

additional actions over the course of the game to bring even more havoc among his

foes!

First lets have a look at the map: There is one allied hero, the Goblin Shaman Ratchand

on the enemy side Little Broggthe Troll Bruiserand Sneakythe Rat Assassinare

waiting for a beat up. Additionally you see 3 objective areas on the map that Pogba

could try to captureby doing so he may score the items shown on the track board at

the side of the map !

Pogba

Ratch

Little Brogg

Sneaky

Items that may be scored at

the objectives on the map

Objective


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Because Pogba is a quite greedy little fellow his plan for now will be to try to score the

Victory Banneritem, which is available at the Dark Tower. Victory Bannersgive you

Victory Points and these will win you the game, so why not?

At the beginning of each round you gotta choose secretly which of his unlocked action

cards Pogba is going to use to realize his plans (the same goes for any other hero you

control). Lets choose Wild Huntto get Pogba into position to kick some ass next round!

After both players chose one action card

per hero its time to activate the heroes by

playing that cards. Activations happen in 4

consecutive action phases and these are

resolved one after the other. Lets have a

closer look at Pogbas Wild Hunt action

card on the right.

The colored circles in the upper left

corner of the card indicates, in which of

the 4 action phases this action may be

used (green marked spaces) and when it

cannot be used (red marked spaces with a

black cross )! As Wild Huntmay be used in

all action phases, Pogba decides to wait

until phase 4 to see what the enemy heroes

are up to before he acts. Assuming that

none of the other heroes has an action

card selected which may be used in the

4th action phase, Pogba is activated last in

this round. When activated, Pogba moves 5 spaces on the map as the movement value

( ) on the action cards indicates.

This action additionally gives him a defense bonus of +1 ( ) which isnt importantnow, because there are no attacks incoming. As this action is not an attack, there is

nothing left to do for Pogba and his activation ends after moving.


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In round 2 you may choose again one of his two

available action cards. Lets be a little more

aggressive this time and go for Bola Strike, an

attack action. On the left youll find the card

again. As you notice Bola Strike may be played to

activate Pogba in the action phases 1-3 and Pogba

doesnt wantto wait any longer and go balls deep

in phase 1, hoping to do a good amount of damage

before the enemy heroes even can react. Pogba

sees Sneaky the Assassin hiding in the shadows

and decides to move 3 spaces getting into

position to smack that Rat right of the table.

As an attack action Bola Strikehas an attack box

which is highlighted redin the picture on the

left. In the right part of that box youll find a

white number which is the range of the attack. In

this case, the range is 2 spacesenough as

Sneaky is just within range 2 (see the

picture on the right!). Pogba readies

his bola and aims carefullynow its

only Pogba, the bola and his prey ..and

of course GrungeHold the f*ck still

Grunge, Im trying to shoot someone

you ugly son of a Chihuahua!(it

should be mentioned here that Pogba

has some severe anger management

deficiencies) Now, with the bola

midair is where the fun begins.

To determine if Pogba hits, you may select 2 battle cards

for his attack as indicated in the golden circle on

the attack card. On the left is a picture of the 4

different battle cards you can choose from -

each showing a different hitzone where you

could aim at.

Lets select one cards to aim to the head and

another one to the legs. Look at the left part of the

attack box of the Bola Strikecard - it shows you the

effects that hits on specific hitzone will have on the target: a hit to the head could

inflict 2 wounds ( ) whereas a hit to the leg would not deal any damage but

completely immobilize the target for one activation ( ). Now the selected battle

cards are placed face down on the table (it ll help a lot to make a seriouscompassionate face while doing so to intimidate your opponent).


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In the meantime our opponent, the Assassin player also puts down one battle card face

down trying to block incoming attacks, by anticipating which hitzones we are going to

attack and selecting cards showing matching hitzone symbols.

Now its time for theshowdownafter cards are flipped face up it looks like this:

Attack cards Defense card

Now the Assassin player played it safe and gotthe Assassinshead out of the way, so

our attack card showing the head hitzone is considered to be blocked and wont cause

any effects. The attack card showing the leg however hits the Assassin who now is

considered to be immobilized and cannot move during his next activation!

There are no more activations in phase 1, so lets proceed to phase 2 where the

opponent activates Sneaky, the Rat Assassin. Now that hes immobilized he cannot

move and go to assassinate our Shaman. He uses his attack on Pogba, but as Pogba got

a +1 defense bonus from Bola Strikegranting him a total of 2 cards to defend that

attack does only little damage.

In phase 3 we activate Ratch to throw out his feared

Flame Spear. Pogba did a really good job setting that

up because normally Flame Spearis hard to hit, as it

may be only fired in a straight line (see the red arrow in

the range section on the Flame Spear card) and the

Shaman may only move one space before pulling it off.

Now, however as Sneaky is wrapped in Pogbas bola,

unable to move, well give it a shot!

Again we got 2 cards to hit and Sneaky again has only 1

to defend. Lets try a ballsier play this time and go all

in: we select 2 cards showing the brain hitzone! After

revealing attack cards and defense cards it doesnt

look good for Sneaky, as his player chose to defend

head resulting in two undefended hits on the brain for

a total of a whopping 8 points of damage (2x4 ). As

poor Sneaky only has 7 hitpoints hes instantly killed and removed from the table. Notethat heroes in Moba tend to be resurrected quite soon after getting killed, so that this

is not too big of a big deal

Blocked

Hit


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If a battle card with the brain hitzone wouldve been chosen to defend, Sneaky would

not have suffered one single point of damage as both attack cards would have been

canceled, but hey, thats life.Now our hero Ratch gets rewarded for dealing the killing

blow to the Assassin: he may unlock one additional action card so that from now on he

can choose between 3 different actions at the beginning of each round. Lets take a look

at his new precious card!

This card is a special one, as it got blue circles in the

upper left corner instead of green or red ones. Cards

like that are called interrupts. Interrupts give your

heroes the opportunity to act during the activation of

enemy heroes when certain conditions are met. They are

a really cool way to bait enemy attacks and leave them

helpless in the open if they fall for your trap.

Finally Little Brogg gets to act moving forward but not

quite reaching Pogba or Ratch, so his activation ends.

At the end of the 2nd round Pogba is the only hero

adjacent to the Black Tower and thus is able to score

that Victory Banner for his team. Will it be enough to

gain victory? Its up to you to find out see you on the

battle fields of Moba!

Happy gaming,

The designer


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4. Pictures of Moba in action

Full setup

The map


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Fighting for the Dark Tower objective

The track board

Hero components (Figure, hero card, 4 action cards)

Documents

Moba Teaser