As you can expect, it makes for a very chaotic, very exciting and very fun experience as you’re trying to keep track of your job while listening to what the enemy is doing," Bates said.

And if they’re adjacent to that space, whether diagonally or orthogonally, they will only take one damage. She’s also responsible for coordinating with the others and determining when to activate the various systems and where. You might get more mileage with your own house rules – say, forcing people to change up their roles in the middle of a game, or adding other weird restrictions or challenges. Captain Sonar rides a difficult line– it wants to be simple enough for anyone to play, but by nature that prevents it from staying as interesting and exciting as the first play. Although some sacrifices were made in the re-imagining of Captain Sonar for a smaller group, designers Roberto Fraga and Yohan Lemonnier have done an admirable job of keeping what was most essential to maintain the core feel of the game.From the image above, place the screens in between the players at the center of the table end-to-end.

Captain Sonar is made fun (and difficult, depending on your crewmates) because it forces everyone to not just work together, but to work together competently. First mate will need to relay to captain the need to use drone/sonar systems so that the captain can priorities the system.

This game is played with AYE CAPTAINS and TORPEDO READY shouted across a table, the tension reflected in the volume and urgency of everyone’s voices, and the way this raises people’s blood pressure also helps deliver a bigger emotional payoff at he end of each game.

This is even less exciting because I’ve found that by the mid-game you’re usually more or less full on all of the systems and it’s up to the Engineer to free them up. Captain Sonar is an almost peerless example of the medium, its interaction, teamwork and conflict creating an experience that marries board games and role-playing and turns them into something new and loud and stressful and so much fun. A hatalmas paraván (két, 115 centi hosszú darab egymás mellett) két oldalán a két tengeralattjáró legénysége: a lokátoros, a kapitány, az első tiszt és a mérnök.Together with picking the roles, the teams will need to decide if they want to play real time on in turns. On each move, you have to announce the direction journeyed (north, east, south, west) but not your location. The aim of the the captain is to damage the enemy submarine by detonating a previously placed mine or by firing a torpedo. Located deep in the heart of game publisher Asmodee’s sprawling booth on the Gen Con vendor floor in Indianapolis, a crowd had been growing around us this whole time. In the latter set-up, all the members of a team take their actions simultaneously while trying to track what the opponents are doing, too.