Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v1 from Artipia Games & Drawlab Entertainment, 2015 - Board game review

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Details

Set: Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v1, Product Code: PEG-BGA?, Set type: Board game base set (Game base set), System: Project: ELITE Ed1 system, Range: Project: ELITE range (Futuristic), Setting: Project: ELITE universe, Company: Artipia Games & Drawlab Entertainment, Production: 2015
Designer: Konstantinos Kokkinis, Sotirios Tsantilas

Players: 1-4, Player abilities: Various, Different, Units: Single figures
Turn structure: Real-time,  Movement: Movement grid (square)
Playing time: 30 min, Play style: Cooperative, Theme: Combat, Language dependency: Rulebook, cards
Features: Solo, Miniatures, Random effects (dice)

Miniatures
Species: Various, Scale: 1:45 (40mm), Proportions: Realistic, Size: Various, Material: ?, Priming: ?
Assembly: One-piece, Posing: ?, Paintjob: Unpainted, Base: Integral scenic base, Sculptor: Antonis Papantoniou
Features: Various

The Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v1 received an upgraded version in 2016, the Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v2.

image © Drawlab Entertainment

The miniatures in the Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v1

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"Project:ELITE is an innovative real-time board game full of intense moments. Players take the role of members of a special ops team called Project: ELITE. They are sent on dangerous missions trying to complete objectives while swarms of aliens attack them."

"Project: ELITE is a 1-4 player game, for ages 12 and above, that takes  approximately 30-45 minutes to play.

Project: ELITE takes the idea of a real-time co-operative dice game, and with unique twists brings innovative new mechanics to the table. Players take the role of a special ops team with the mission to hold back an ongoing alien invasion trying to take over the Earth.

Players need to work together in short 2-minute rounds deciding quickly among defending their base, hunting down some aliens or completing their objectives. Special events and unique alien abilities make every round different and highly challenging for the players. To win the game they will have to rely not only on their special weapons and items, but on their fast reflexes as well.

The game provides endless replayability with a 2-sided board depicting two different landscapes, 4 different kinds of objectives, 3 levels of difficulty and a plethora of weapons, items and events, making every game a unique, ELITE experience."

"Project: ELITE is a co-operative, real-time, speed-dice, tactical, tower-defense-like game in which players roll dice with symbols as fast as they can allowing them to do various actions with their character on the game board. They move around shooting and cutting through waves of aliens blocking their advance while at the same time they try to complete objectives that will bring them to victory.

The game consists of a number of real-time 2-minute Rounds (depending on the scenario) separated by an AI Alien phase where aliens perform abilities, advance towards their goal and receive reinforcements.

The constant performance of actions through dice rolling combined with an innovative combat/movement system result in a mix of intense gameplay that offers countless hours of fun.

What really makes Project: ELITE unique is the "Alien Move" symbol that appears on one side of each of the player's dice and forces him/her to move an alien towards their goal.

The end-result is a real-time tactical board game where friend and foe are on an constant motion trying to prevail."

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Contents - Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v1 for Project: ELITE Ed1

System

1x Project: ELITE Ed1 Rulebook

23x Weapon Card

19x Item Card

16x Alien Tech Card

30x Soldier Alien Card

8x Special Alien Card

8x Boss Alien Card

6x Character Card

24x Setup Cards

Tokens

24x Objective Tiles

1x Round Marker Token

5x Alien Tech Token

8x Objective Token

36x one-life Token

6x five-life Token

2x Spawning Tokens

5x Prevent Alien Move Token

3x Spawning Area Token

6x Event Token

7x Boss Token

Dice

16x Action Dice

16x Hit Dice

1x d3 Randomizer dice

1x d20 Randomizer dice

Miniatures

6x Characters

1x Bus v1

1x Caress v1

1x Lilla v1

1x Momentum v1

1x Robcart v1

1x Sarah Mercy v1

8x Boss Aliens

1x Acidox sc1 v1

1x Crushox sc1 v1

1x Ductar v1

1x Pendra'a'gon v1

1x Phobos v1

1x Plague Bringer v1

1x Roachoc v1

1x Thrustar v1

6x Special Aliens

1x Hound v1

1x Slime Spitter v1

1x Spawning Egg v1

1x Strider v1

1x Time Bender v1

1x Time Walker v1

60x Aliens

20x Biter sc1 v1

20x Runner sc1 v1

20x Shooter sc1 v1

Scenery

1x Double-sided game board

• Abandoned Lab
• Alien Crash Site

12x Acid Token

4x Slime Token

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Acidox sc1 v1	Crushox sc1 v1	Ductar v1
image © Drawlab Entertainment	image © Drawlab Entertainment	image © Drawlab Entertainment
Pendra'a'gon v1	Phobos v1	Plague Bringer v1
image © Drawlab Entertainment	image © Drawlab Entertainment
Roachoc v1	Thrustar v1
image © Drawlab Entertainment	image © Drawlab Entertainment	image © Drawlab Entertainment
Hound v1	Slime Spitter v1	Spawning Egg v1
image © Drawlab Entertainment	image © Drawlab Entertainment	image © Drawlab Entertainment
Strider v1	Time Bender v1	Time Walker v1
image © Drawlab Entertainment	image © Drawlab Entertainment	image © Drawlab Entertainment
Biter sc1 v1	Runner sc1 v1	Shooter sc1 v1

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Review - Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v1 for Project: ELITE Ed1

Weight: 4 kg

Reviews praise the randomness of the game. However, this randomness sometimes mean that the opposition just crushes the players. Due to the quick game, this might not pose that much of a problem.

The Recon and Recovery missions are said to be too similar.

When you play solo, the starting equipment is very important. If you get something useless, you might not be able to find more equipment before being killed.

For more information, read our Games Nexus previews:

• Games Nexus: Project: ELITE miniatures range: Preview articles.
• Games Nexus: Project: ELITE Board game from Artipia Games & Drawlab Entertainment - Resources: Article collection.

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Resources - Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v1 for Project: ELITE Ed1

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Buying the product - Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v1 for Project: ELITE Ed1

Base price (Project: ELITE Ed1 Base Set v1): 100 EUR, Price/model: ca. 1 EUR if you need the others

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