Flash Point: Fire Rescue boardgame

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Flash Point: Fire Rescue boardgame

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It's like Pandemic, but with Firefighters and just one house.

This is one of the games that came out of kickstarter. It is, at a basic level a co-op game just like pandemic, but with a group of 1-6 firefighters and a single house.

It's a great game, really worth a look at if you like co-op games. It has several ways to play, including a family mode that's simple and fun, to a more complex mode that includes different roles and a difficulty setting.

The board is basically a house, laid out in a grid. There's walls and doors delineating spaces in that grid as rooms. The way the mechanics work is that fire can spread through rooms rather easily, but takes some effort to go through walls.

Every turn, players have a set number of actions including moving, extinguishing fires, and moving victims around. Then you're rolling for the random place that smoke markers are placed, and if that smoke touches fire, or you hit the smoke location again, a whole chain of smoke can catch fire. If you roll on a location that's already on fire, it explodes and blows out doors and damages walls.

To keep the fire under control, you have to both go after victims, and extinguish fires or at least remove chains of smoke and fire to prevent catastrophic chains.
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I quite like this one too, we play using the simple/"family game" rules with my eight-year-old. after reading the rules I'm not convinced the advanced version is worth the effort but I'm sure I'll check it out at some point.
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Call of Duty Kickstarter
Included in the package are is a new, double-sided game board with an airplane fire on one side and a subway station disaster on the opposite side.Also included are several new game Markers and detailed instructions for playing with these new materials.

The Kickstarter Edition also includes a new specialist card - the Fire Prevention Officer and a double-side game board with an alternative Attic and Basement. These items will not be included in the retail edition of the expansion.

This expansion cannot be played without the base game, Flash Point: Fire Rescue. The attic/basement board in the Kickstarter Edition also requires the Extreme Danger expansion.
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Isgrimnur wrote:Call of Duty Kickstarter
Activision called. It's now the Honor and Duty expansion.
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Yeah, I figured that might get them some unwanted attention. And their lawyers aren't geared enough for that boss fight.

They apparently can't or haven't updated the pledge text.
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