GuillotineTabletop Tuesdays: Fun Through Decapitation | Submitted by costik on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 11:18. |
In Guillotine, each of the players is a French revolutionary executioner, competing to have the honor of executing the highest-value nobles. At the beginning of play, twelve noble cards are laid out; this is the line of those waiting for execution.
Fans of XCOM will find the gameplay of Taskforce familiar: you control a squad of heavily armed soldiers, and each turn you plan their moves. Each has a limited number of action points to spend, and movement, firing, and other actions require you to spend points. Opponents can 'opportunity fire' at you if you enter their field of fire (and they have action points remaining from last turn), so even though this is an "I move/you move" game, there's a sense of interactivity between the players as you move. Once you're finished with your turn, the other side performs its own actions under the control of the AI.
