Godtear: The Borderlands Starter Set Board Game with 12 Detailed Miniatures, Tabletop Combat Game (2 Players)

I will try to be fair. This is a well thought, and made board game. We have little experience with board games as a couple but with the baby going to sleep at 19:30 and us wanting to spend some quality time together, we decided to give them a go. Due to our lack of experience, we found this game very complicated and we still aren't sure how to play it. My partner spent half an hour reading and still wasn't sure. We both suffer from ADHD and struggle to concentrate to read all the rules etc. Two of our good friends are obsessed with board games and we are waiting for the next time they come around to have a read, explain it to us and hopefully then we will be able to enjoy it. So the game seems to be good, it's just us not being patient enough to read all the information.

The board looks and feels amazing, the design is really nice and the hexes are really well blended in, so much so, that it is sometimes very difficult to discern them if the underlying art is darker. The board is very thick and seriously sturdy which is really nice. The board also features double-sided art for a different mood/mission.The miniatures are also very well made, they are made out of decent plastic and are moulded precisely so the features are really detailed, the quality is better than you would expect for the price.Other components such as dice and cards are also very well made and will last a long time. Tokens are ok, nothing special. The art of the legends and their followers could have been better but fits the theme well.The presentation is amazing until you open the box and see how much space is wasted. After you pop all the tokens out, there is no space to put them back in and the box can't be closed completely as before opening. The miniatures don't take up that much space and the spacing between them seems to just waste the room for the other components.As for the gameplay, I am not a huge fan of these type of miniature games, but this one seems to miss the mark. The turns go quickly but most of the time nothing really happens since everything is based on RNG. The powers don't seem to be as strong, especially the ultimate skills. Most of the time, the rounds end up with no damage and if one person forgets to place the banner the round is basically lost. It definitely looks like that it needs more than just one faction per side as the gameplay feels really weak in this case. From reviews, all seemed to suggest at least 2 factions per side for a better experience and I think that is the case when I had a chance to play only 1 base set.Overall, it is a pretty decent game that is lacking the expansions, so if you are just planning on using it as is (base set) then I wouldn't recommend it, but if you are planning on buying more factions and playing with more players then I feel it is a really good quality set to add to your game collection.

I got this for my nephew who is a real gamer both table and digital so i asked him to review this.Firstly the design of the game is fantastic and the quality of the material used is really good with great pieces and high quality colours. The game is quite intense with lots going on however getting to know the ins and outs of the game is explained in the instructions, even if they are quite intense themselves.Overall he said that if you are looking for a game that really gets you drawn in then this is for you.

I got the chance to try this game as a total newcomer to tabletop games. At first it seemed very intriguing. It comes in a massive box with lots of pieces including the large fold out game board, the playing figures, info cards, tokens and unique dice.First impressions are that this game seems to be very well thought out, designed and constructed. The materials are all superior condition and the back story to the game is very interesting. The overall point of the gameplay can be summarised in this sentence from the guide book 'Players take up command of champions and their followers and attempt to gain victory in a scenario based battle.'The problem came when I got to the rule book - a veritable novel of instructions that are increasingly confusing - at which point it dawned on me that this game is far more complicated than I first thought. In fact it is so complicated that trying to understand the rules is a bit of a nightmare.There are 6 scenarios to play by that affect how the players move and roll the dice, there are plot phases and end phases, different patterns of player movement and a multitudes of actions involving 'hexes' (which are different uses for the hexagonal portions of the game board).Ultimately this game is far more involved than the kind of game I am used to playing and takes a very long time to get even a basic grasp of it. Once you start playing it can take hours to complete a game because it is so complicated, although officially it states that gameplay should take about an hour once you have mastered the rules.This game is for people who want a serious board game that they can really get their teeth into and wile away an afternoon or evening. It isn't to my taste and I'm not sure I will ever play it again to really master it, but I can see that some people would love it especially as a gift.

This is a serious board game set for serious gamers. This Godtear game is so well produced. High quality board game that includes lots of pieces with a large fold out game board, the actual playing figures, instructions, information cards, tokens and dice.The game instructions are long, well written and clear.This isn’t an easy game to learn. Yet it is absorbing, time flies when in play. For the serious adult or teenager gamer who wishes to try something and enjoy away from a computer screen.Excellent stuff.