The heft then arrives via how these selections interact and the decisions ripple, how each fuels the military industrial complex, and how your faction’s peculiarities texture these interactions. Each player takes a turn picking a strategic action they will trigger. The basis for play is the Puerto Rico inspired action selection mechanism. The complexity then is placed atop that core format by providing asymmetric orders for each faction and intertwining logistic and political dependencies. The underlying structure is an area control game where you flip an event card and a player either triggers the card or passes. Think of something like the COIN series from GMT. Imagine an unremarkable skeleton with ample strength and maximum efficiency to support layers of muscle, what I’d call depth. Typically, complexity is built from a very simple core structure. It’s a little sub-hour card game, but it’s trying to stretch itself in a very awkward and unbecoming manner. Rivals has a complex rules width which doesn’t quite fit its weight. The issue is that I can’t quite determine what that identity is. No, this game’s identity is a significant departure from that earlier design. And not in the obvious way of swapping out the frustrating collectible format for the more friendly LCG model. This is not Vampire: The Eternal Struggle.
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