{"id":80277,"date":"2016-10-04T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=80277"},"modified":"2016-10-03T21:06:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T04:06:49","slug":"mechs-vs-minions-board-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/mechs-vs-minions-board-game\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Table: Mech Way for Minions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of &#8216;League of Legends&#8217; will soon be able to bring Yordle mech-warriors to the tabletop with &#8216;Mechs vs. Minions&#8217;, a cooperative tower defense style board game set in the same universe as the hugely popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From the product description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mechs vs. Minions is a cooperative tabletop campaign set in the world of Runeterra where players take on the roles of four intrepid Yordles: Corki, Tristana, Heimerdinger, and Ziggs. This team of Yordles must join forces, piloting their newly-crafted mechs against an army of marauding minions. With modular boards, programmatic command lines, and a story-driven campaign, each mission will be unique, putting players&#8217; teamwork and piloting skills to the test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/whats-inside-1600px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68596\" title=\"What's inside the Mechs vs Minions game\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/whats-inside-1600px.jpg\" alt=\"What's inside the Mechs vs Minions game\" width=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key features of the game include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Unique Missions<\/strong> \u2013 &#8216;Mechs vs. Minions&#8217; features a total of ten missions, with each individual mission taking approximately 60-90 minutes to play through.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multiple Game Boards<\/strong> \u2013 The box includes five game boards, as well as four command lines (one for each player), ability and damage decks, a sand timer, six metal trackers, four acrylic shards, four dice, and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miniatures!<\/strong> \u2013 &#8216;Mechs vs. Minions&#8217; also comes with four painted mech miniatures (shown in the image below), a bomb-like-power source miniature, and 100 minion miniatures. There also appears to be a rather large object trying to get out of that sealed box&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mechs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68596\" title=\"The four fully painted mechs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Mechs.jpg\" alt=\"The four fully painted mechs\" width=\"660\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For a deeper dive into &#8216;Mechs vs. Minions&#8217;, including an animated tutorial video, game overviews and more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mechsvsminions.com\">www.mechsvsminions.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mechs vs. Minions&#8217; will be available exclusively through the <a href=\"https:\/\/na.merch.riotgames.com\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Riot Games Merch store<\/a> on October 13th, 2016 for $75.00 US (plus s\/h).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of &#8216;League of Legends&#8217; will soon be able to bring Yordle mech-warriors to the tabletop with &#8216;Mechs vs. Minions&#8217;, a cooperative tower defense style board game set in the same universe as the hugely popular Multiplayer Online Battle Arena.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":80279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[5090,3423,9151,7921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80277"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80477,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80277\/revisions\/80477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}