1/14/2024 0 Comments Krosmaster arena 3d game board![]() It is fairly easy to learn and the 4 character vs 4 character battle arena can have a lot of strategy and synergies between characters and if not taken too seriously it is a fun game to play. ![]() I actually just ordered some of the new season 4 and 5 figures late last year and we have started playing again because of that. He started playing with me and online around 5th grade I think (the online game and tutorial helped teach him the game). That all said, my son and I really like the both the board game and the online version and we still play each other fairly often. The French parent company has now taken over North American distribution, an version of the online game is in beta, and a new season of the French animated TV show has just been released so it looks like the game will continue. I think a lot of the fans dropped off when it became hard to find english expansions and I seem to remember a bit of a debacle with the Krosmaster Quest Kickstarter. ![]() ![]() Most of that comes from the fact it is produced by a French company and North American distribution has bounced around a bit with products going from over stocked to hard to find quickly. Krosmaster is one of those games that was hot when it first came out and then has really dropped off with a lot of that related to poor distribution and product support. It has a MMOLG feel in that it asks the player characters to grind monsters a lot, but It's kind of fun to do that in a board game setting. I've only played this once so far, but I enjoy it. There exists also Krosmaster Quest which allows you to use the same minis in a 1 vs many dungeon crawl game. The miniatures are a little bit delicate in comparison to solid plastic minis like what FFG or Cmon puts out, with the giant heads and all necks break sometimes, but I think a fourth grader should be able to handle it, and worst case it just needs a dot of superglue. The 1.0 box and the first two seasons have been on deep discount for awhile, so it'd probably not terribly hard or expensive to gather a solid array of guys to choose from. If you wanted to really get into Krosmaster as a line, then you might eventually want both 1.0 and 2.0. The two sets also come with different maps and different miniatures. 2.0 has re-balanced these upgrades, although since I only play casually, I never encountered an obviously overpowered upgrade tile playing 1.0. The difference between 1.0 and 2.0 is a few minor rules changes, but mostly it's that the game features upgrade tiles you can purchase for your characters with coins collected from the board. It can do up to 4 players, but it's really not built for it. The combat is nice and low-luck which I like a lot, as the dice mostly serve to apply additional effects to combat, meaning there's no miss result a-la Descent. It comes with anime style pre-painted minis which are love or hate depending on your sensibilities. Krosmaster arena is at it's core a 1 vs 1 minis combat game, of a similar nature to Final Fantasy Tactics, or Fire Emblem heroes.
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