Neuroshima Hex - Tips & Strategies

There’s a temptation to play everything you’ve got in your hand, because, well, just because you can! Don’t give in to this temptation!!!

Often the best move will be not to move, especially as the board begins to fill up, either because putting down one of your tiles is pointless (because a higher initiative enemy will kill the tile before it can do anything) or because it’s a really valuable tile that could be used to greater effect next turn.

For example, when I’m playing as Moloch, I often hold on to my Air Strike and my Push Backs because there isn’t a large enough clustering of enemy tiles for the maximum benefit of the former, or because I anticipate somebody putting something that damages my base or foils my attacks, in the case of the latter.

We are MOLOCH. EXTERMINATE!

Moloch have nothing to prove, we have destroyed civilization and your pathetic attempts to attack us are futile.

All we need do is sit in a corner, surround ourselves with metal meat sheilds, push back any attempt to get close to our cold metal heart, fill in the subsequent hole with part of our body, and watch as you break against us.

If our heart is exposed, we are not driven by irrational human aggression to make use of a particularly powerful extension of ourselves elsewhere; nothing is too valuable for use as a fine wall.

We need not attack, you can waste your efforts trying to wear us down, but we will regrow and you will be the only one to suffer.

We may not be fast and we may not be mobile, but we are mighty. We are MOLOCH.

The goal of the game is to destroy all the opposing HeadQuarters while keeping one’s own on the board. While in a 4-player game it usually means defending one’s own HQ and dealing some damage to the opposing ones in 2- and 3-player games the participants are tempted to launch furious attacks against opponents’ HQ-s. While there’s nothing wrong in well prepared attacks, charging blindly may often result in dealing a serious amount of damage to the opponent but losing all the units in the process. That leads to a defeat a few turns later.

So when you decide to launch a total attack do it only in one of three following cases:

1) You have reasons to hope that during attack on a HQ you are able to destroy defending units too.

2) You expect that your attack will bring enemy HQ to zero.

3) You calculate that the game will end soon due to the time limit and the opponent will not have enough time to launch a counter-attack.

Each faction has tactical advice printed on the back side of the handouts. Read it before placing your HQ, and base your actions on that advice. It’s very helpful.

The best way to teach someone is to play totally randomly. Only pull two tiles a turn and place them before you flip them. Yes, there are going to be a few moves that don’t make sense but it makes the game fair because NO ONE makes any choices.