Several hours later (and really late to the party) I think I found one of my new favorite TBS ever.
Warbands: Bushido
It's basixally Shadespire/Battlelore in digital form, wrapped in a glorious gorgeous coating.
There are some quirks due to the not really comprehensive tutorial, but after some time you will play like a pro (more on that later).
Actually there are several lengthy games inside the game.
First you have four pretty massive campaigns.
The first time you play a single campaign (normal) you play with a fixed party of miniatures, which levels up during gameplay.
Casualties matter because a dead miniature in a scenario won't be back later, unless you spend in game gold (no iaps whatsoever) to cure them along with buying additional gears).
You can replay last 2 scenarios at will (you will probably replay last one till you complete it with everyone alive).
If you complete it, you unlock hard and insane modes, and it's basicslly a new game because you can play the very same campaign BUT with your miniatures (which you unlock during gameplay and with gold earned with achievements that buy you booster packs). Miniatures come in 4 different tiers, which means you can level up them differently, unlocking more skills for the rarer ones. Everything is done in game, no iaps.
You earn special gold to be used to buy new miniatures and cards, and there is in scenario gold used to buy gears (specific for a scenario).
Number of miniatures is amazing....from peasants to samurai to ninjas to legendary tier named miniatures, each ones with special skills and stats.
Then here is the pvp part of the game, where you use your own miniatures to battle other people, constraints are you actual level (you level up by playing and winning, losing can strip yourself levels as well) and miniatures rarity (best miniatures costs a lot of honor points....so you can battle using a single UBER samurai or 5 low level peasants....your choice).
I still can't decide what is more fun....the sp campaigns or the pvp.
You can personalize your Warbands (one for each game mode) down to choosing your own colors displayed on screen on your miniatures.
Mind you, as for the nature of booster packs and pvp, the game requires constant online connection, even for single player.
As far as I know, friendly pvp is not avaible yet on iOS, but everything else works really damn well and I always found opponents to play with.
Games are fast (pvp in particular, single player scenarios are pretty hard and longer).
The game uses miniatures with a strong emphasis on position (flanking and surrounding are two key strategies), with additional one time (per scenario) use cards to spice up things.
The setting is a single/couple of screens wide.
So far I'm loving it and I highly recommend it.
One last caveat...the game syncs between iPhone and iPad and if possibile I recommend starting playing on iPad because you will want to read the cards during the learning curve. After that playing on iPhone is great too (text is really tiny).
Sadly it doesn't support native iPhone X res, but I played like 3 hours yesterday night on it anyway....it's that fun.
I use iPad now only to change my Warbands and when iPhone is charging.
Warbands: Bushido
It's basixally Shadespire/Battlelore in digital form, wrapped in a glorious gorgeous coating.
There are some quirks due to the not really comprehensive tutorial, but after some time you will play like a pro (more on that later).
Actually there are several lengthy games inside the game.
First you have four pretty massive campaigns.
The first time you play a single campaign (normal) you play with a fixed party of miniatures, which levels up during gameplay.
Casualties matter because a dead miniature in a scenario won't be back later, unless you spend in game gold (no iaps whatsoever) to cure them along with buying additional gears).
You can replay last 2 scenarios at will (you will probably replay last one till you complete it with everyone alive).
If you complete it, you unlock hard and insane modes, and it's basicslly a new game because you can play the very same campaign BUT with your miniatures (which you unlock during gameplay and with gold earned with achievements that buy you booster packs). Miniatures come in 4 different tiers, which means you can level up them differently, unlocking more skills for the rarer ones. Everything is done in game, no iaps.
You earn special gold to be used to buy new miniatures and cards, and there is in scenario gold used to buy gears (specific for a scenario).
Number of miniatures is amazing....from peasants to samurai to ninjas to legendary tier named miniatures, each ones with special skills and stats.
Then here is the pvp part of the game, where you use your own miniatures to battle other people, constraints are you actual level (you level up by playing and winning, losing can strip yourself levels as well) and miniatures rarity (best miniatures costs a lot of honor points....so you can battle using a single UBER samurai or 5 low level peasants....your choice).
I still can't decide what is more fun....the sp campaigns or the pvp.
You can personalize your Warbands (one for each game mode) down to choosing your own colors displayed on screen on your miniatures.
Mind you, as for the nature of booster packs and pvp, the game requires constant online connection, even for single player.
As far as I know, friendly pvp is not avaible yet on iOS, but everything else works really damn well and I always found opponents to play with.
Games are fast (pvp in particular, single player scenarios are pretty hard and longer).
The game uses miniatures with a strong emphasis on position (flanking and surrounding are two key strategies), with additional one time (per scenario) use cards to spice up things.
The setting is a single/couple of screens wide.
So far I'm loving it and I highly recommend it.
One last caveat...the game syncs between iPhone and iPad and if possibile I recommend starting playing on iPad because you will want to read the cards during the learning curve. After that playing on iPhone is great too (text is really tiny).
Sadly it doesn't support native iPhone X res, but I played like 3 hours yesterday night on it anyway....it's that fun.
I use iPad now only to change my Warbands and when iPhone is charging.
