by ButteredCatGames
This is a table-top duelling game designed around dinosaur fighting! This will be a game designed for anyone, anywhere to play. All you need is a set of dice, a coin, a miniature, some measuring tools and a table. m
Have you ever asked; who would win a pack of raptors or a Triceratops? Or wanted to recreate that epic fight in Jurassic Park 3? We at Buttered Cat Games are providing the tools for those epic duels.
Why Dinosaurs?
We want you to think back to your first time watching Jurassic Park or first time playing with dino riders and remember how much fun it brought you to picture who would win these incredible duels! Now we want you to put it to practice and actually imagine having a well-made figure to actually duel with. I think we speak for most people when we say dinosaurs are incredible. We’d love to bring them back in incredible quality for either a shelf or a table-top.
How it plays?
Set up
You use the accompanying website to download and select your 3 starter cards like plains, desert and grasslands for the T-rex or swamp, beach and marsh for the Spinosaurus. The players will put both sets of 3 cards together then select 2 cards at random. Then the weather/time cards and lastly the mission. Both players get a reroll for one of the set-up cards. Once selected the players will make a combination of the selected cards for you to create on the table and then you’re good to play.
Each round will be played via a simple coin flip to decide priority, then you move and attack with your dinosaurs.
Each round will consist of action steps with 2 actions per dinosaur, the game requires thinking, tactical positioning and resource control and of course a unique special move you can use once a game.
Every dinosaur has a species specific keyword that helps every dinosaur feel unique.
The game features a unique way to play using a pivoting front. This allows for numerous benefits like:
- Makes it easy for the player to figure out who’s attacking what/where.
- Opens the dinosaurs to attacks from others.
- Makes it easy to figure out where to move from.
- Allows for greater range of movement for flexible dinos (Spinosaurus/Apatosaurus).
- Shows where certain attacking weapons are before striking (Ankylosaurs/Stegosaurus).
- Allows for strafing and full moves from the front.
Initial launch
We are aiming to release 4 boxes at first with big named dinosaurs in each. These will be revealed as we reach each goal.
T-rex vs Triceratops: the classic match up everyone has wanted to see and test! With one large T-rex vs two Triceratops this will be a tough challenge for either side.
Each box will contain:
- 1:56 scale accurate dinosaurs.
- Juvenile dinosaur versions of each dinosaur species in the box for mission requirements.
- A metal coin depicting the dinosaurs within the box.
- Recycled glass tokens.
- Cardboard cutouts for terrain.
Missions on launch
We will have 6 missions on launch, these are as follows:
- Protect young (utilises the baby figures in each box you must protect your young).
- Protect nests (objective based gameplay where you have to find and destroy the nests or protect them).
- Territorial disputes (deathmatch like fighting).
- Hunt (you must hunt and kill the weakened herbivore before your opponent).
- Migration (one of the players must get to the other side before their opponent can stop them).
- Scavenging (similar to capture the flag but instead you’re capturing a kill).
We are doing these missions to give the dinosaurs a reason to fight and win via other means than just killing each other.
