Nexus Ops 1st Edition
An Ameritrash game if ever there was one. Bright neon plastic units that glow in the dark and a theme not too far removed from Starship Troopers. Move units one space, gather up resources, build a bigger army, smash your units into your enemy and roll to determine the victor.
Reviews and Articles About Nexus Ops 1st Edition
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Editor reviews
Just about the only multi-player conflict game that I keep coming back to. Players are encouraged to fight often, and defense is drastically under-emphasized. This is in the game's favor, allowing for something that pushes forward relentlessly and powers through with almost no mess. Definitely one of the great conflict...
Top of the Ops
Can't see how you could want much more from a light conflict game - who cares if it's a tad unoriginal when it beats the opposition in this category into the dust? Fast, fun and with a surprising amount of difficult tactical choices thanks to the card-based VP system. Scales...
User reviews
Knife fight. Phone booth. Go for it.
Really, Nexus Ops is a great example of a classic style game "modernized" and cleaned up into light gaming perfection. It's got a tiered combat system like Shogun/Samurai Swords. You've got the whole building troops/collecting resources, feels a lot like Warcraft or something similar. ...
Glowy
I think I'm most let down by this because it's GREAT at what it does: it's a lite dicefest. I feel like there should be variable player powers or something to spice things up, but I still really enjoy the game. Cool plastic pieces, but the monolith piece sucks. Lots...
THE Ameritrash Gateway
If you told someone who doesn't play a lot of board games to imagine a game that was like Risk crossed with Starcraft the PC game, the game they'd imagine would likely be very similar to Nexus Ops. The mission/victory point system punctuate the slugfest giving it...
Punching space spiders is a pretty cool thing.
This is such a pretty game. The little bits are so cool. The game plays nicely too--the mechanisms for recovery are well done. It has enough subtlety for le gameur, while also rewarding those of us that like to roll dice and punch space spiders in the face.