Agents of Mayhem Board Game Smashes Kickstarter Goal

<p>Last year&comma; the creators of <em>Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row<&sol;em>&comma; Volition&comma; released a new game called <em>Agents of Mayhem<&sol;em>&period; The game released to mixed reviews&comma; but was ultimately seen as a decent open-world adventure game by many&period; Set in the same world as <em>Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row<&sol;em>&comma; the game was inspired by Saturday morning cartoons such as <em>G&period;I&period; Joe<&sol;em>&comma; where players assumed the role of a group of anti-heroes known as agents of MAYHEM&comma; facing off against the deadly LEGION&period; Now&comma; there is a board game on the way that has appeared on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kickstarter&period;com&sol;projects&sol;617871702&sol;agents-of-mayhem-pride-of-babylon&quest;ref&equals;8wt5ru">Kickstarter<&sol;a> this past week&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s already cleared its target goal of &dollar;30&comma;000 USD&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"7-6MQkRG&lowbar;Bg" title&equals;"Trailer - Agents of Mayhem - Pride of Babylon Boardgame"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;7-6MQkRG&lowbar;Bg"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;7-6MQkRG&lowbar;Bg&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Trailer - Agents of Mayhem - Pride of Babylon Boardgame"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Agents of Mayhem&colon; Pride of Babylon<&sol;em> is being developed by <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;academygames&period;com">Academy Games<&sol;a>&comma; a well-known developer of tactical tabletop games like <em>Conflict of Heroes<&sol;em>&period; The game uses modular tiles and miniatures to play out its battles&comma; and has some interesting ideas in how the tiles are used&period; One particular highlight is being able to build up buildings using pegs&comma; as there are floor tiles for buildings that can be used&period; The game uses tactical strategies like elevation that players can use&comma; but environments are also destructible&comma; and the building that your enemies are shooting from can easily be destroyed and collapsed&period; The game is for 2 to 4 players&comma; and uses interesting boards for the characters that are used to track abilities and upgrades&comma; with the character boards having slots to slide in cards that can be swapped or upgraded between games&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game launched with a target of &dollar;30&comma;000 USD&comma; and it has been cleared in a matter of days&period; At the time of writing this article&comma; it stands at &dollar;65&comma;000 USD and counting with 25 days still to go&period; The game will come with the core box&comma; as well as the Get Gaunt expansion&comma; which introduces the LEGION villain Gaunt&period; There are stretch goals continually being added&comma; generally with more LEGION troopers being added&comma; and more will continue to be added&period; One of the more interesting add-ons however is Johnny Gat&comma; star of the <em>Saint&&num;8217&semi;s Row<&sol;em> games&comma; who is included as an add-on with his own unit board and upgrade cards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The estimated delivery is September 2018&comma; so it&&num;8217&semi;s clear that the game is for the most part done&comma; and now Academy&comma; Volition and Deep Silver are just trying to nail down how many copies to produce&period; The game looks pretty sharp&comma; and looks to promise on some great strategy action&period; Are you interested in it&comma; will you back it on Kickstarter&quest; Let us know in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kickstarter&period;com&sol;projects&sol;617871702&sol;agents-of-mayhem-pride-of-babylon&quest;ref&equals;8wt5ru">Kickstarter<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;