Robot building game

Good morning Illadar,

I do not remember having seen a board game where you build robots using robot parts, but I have played the CCG called Battletech. In Battletech, you build robots (mechwarriors) using various resources (Politics, logistics, tactics, assembly, munitions). You can also perform other actions using the same resources (Espionnage, sabotage, political actions, build support units, etc). The goal is to empty the opponents deck (His base) by attacking with your mechs. You can also attack his resources, his cards under construction, or his robots directly. There is also a video game called "Front Mission" in which you customize your robots using parts that you buy.

In your description, the idea of people trying to destroy each others when there is so few remaining, stuck in underground life, is not logical and/or intuitive to me, although the reason for this could be to scavenge "un-atomized" resources (like water or vegetation). I would rather see them trying to cooperate, as they struggle to survive, and clean the planet (I can imagine a settlers variant where you start with "nuclear" tokens on each tile, and then you score points for clearing tiles. Settlements would be bunkers). The setup could also be: In one of the underground bunkers you mentionned, it has become clear the there is not enough resources for everyone. People have started to form gangs trying to control the bunkers few resources. They reach the point where there is an underground war in the bunker tunnel network. Each player would be controling one of these gangs. (This may not be a good idea since there would be no robot, and this seems to be the core idea of your game.

I really like your idea as to build robots using components. This probably mean that you can customize your robots as you like. This is the kind of game I like, where I have a lot of options (This is a personnal preference). This reminds me of one of my game ideas which was a crossbreed between "Gundam" and "Dynasty Tactics", where you could customize each gundam's weapons and skills.

Regards,

Jeb

The game would be set in a post atomic war earth where human travel out side of special bunkers is impossible. So the warring factions that started the atomic robots in an effort to destroy each other.
Players would develop robots by drawing cards (for a price) and then playing various components to build the robot. I’ve been think that this could be solely a card game or it could be played on board for a more strategic element
If any one has seen a game like this before I would greatly appreciate it if you would mention it, comments are great to.

Thanks

This reminds me of the awful, awful movie Robot Jox (no reflection on your game idea though). Personally I think it is a great idea. Different groups could each remote control a robot on the surface. These robots could compete for valuable surface resources such as fuel, water, ammunition, scrap metal, food stores (don't know how realistic that would be with the radiation and all, perhaps stuff could be decontaminated) as well as do things like explore, rescue missions, attacks on enemy bases, etc. I think it's great; the skys the limit.

-Darke