Desktop RPG and war games - review part 4
Mage Knight
«Mage Knight» are dynamical desktop fights with participation of colourful counters-miniatures.
The miniature shows the fighter (group) and necessarily supports one of eight armies. The main feature of each miniature – its military circle – a rotating disk under the image of each group. It shows all skills and qualities of fighters. During battle of the characteristic of the fighter vary also it reflects rotation of a military circle. And it means that characteristics of groups should not be written down on a paper any more, tensely to remember, mark candy wrappers, battle occurs only in the field of fight.
Miniatures possess in the powerful sizes (to 10 see in height), and are on sale already painted and collected. In the field of fight it is very convenient to dispose of them and they please an eye without labour-consuming and often expensive colouring (but at desire of a miniature, of course, it is possible to paint in own way).
Miniatures are on sale in sets on 5 and 10 (starter) of fighters. That will meet in them – it is in advance not known. From here, all groups have six degrees of a rarity on frequency of occurrence in sets. Game keeps passion of a collecting that for desktop battles rather unusually.
Bad fighters do not exist. Before the beginning of battle players agree about a reserve for a set of the armies (usually 200 units), and each group has certain reserve cost (for today from 5 to 145 units). And so, qualities of the fighter correspond to its cost. Over 100-ochkovym the rare monster joking the five of usual infantrymen – force in your ability, the commander can win. That is the money spent in vain will not be, successful game begins literally with one set.
The fifth. On an official site of game, always it is possible to find game news, the fresh and
full information on its world, to impart experience with other commanders, to receive council and the help. To buy in addition fiction, directories, a management are not present need.
Developing function of game that it, owing to strategic character and variety of game situations, stimulates development of analytical thinking, trains semantic and mechanical memory, and also any attention. Besides similar games unite people: in a family, at school, at institute the owner of this game will always collect round itself the good company.
