Working out range is easy in tabletop Apex Legends. For instance, my Wraith teammate and I were able to get creative with their portal for surgical strikes using Thermite grenades that'd flush out our foes before warping back to cover and the protection of my dome shield. Although there are a few new abilities via cards (which still hew close to the characters' powerset), that shorthand let me quickly dig into the strategy of it all once I'd gotten my head around the rules. As a case in point, I'm a Lifeline or Gibraltar main and using the latter here was like putting on a pair of comfy slippers. While it's not exactly the same (you drop with a couple of random weapons already equipped, for example), character abilities are identical and each Legend responds how you'd anticipate. As someone who plays Trios or Ranked matches with friends most weeks, I came away impressed by how familiar this board game for adults is. However, that's not to say it doesn't feel like classic Apex too. We have, I think, a very unique system I haven't seen in any other game Joanna Kijanka, developer
When you throw in the classic shrinking battlefield, the Apex Legends board game ends up having a very distinctive voice - it's able to cut through the noise in a way I wasn't expecting. So big complex rules, unclear line of sight, fiddly dice and so on."
And we wanted to take out all the biggest, let's say, problems that newcomers have for skirmishes.
"And one of the assumptions that we had for this project was that we wanted to have everything packed into one box like a board game. "In our company, half of us are avid war gamers," Wiśniewski tells me.
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