Titan HD

The ONLY place I’d recommend improvement is the dice don’t seem random.

After playing the board games for many years and being a very competitive player in the 90s, I had high hopes for this game. The following is written from playing solely in solo mode. It is beautifully render and the UI is very good, unfortunately this is all I can say positively about it. Two main problems - random numbers are way out of line. Either setup or deliberate, the sequences hit very rare results far to often. Far too many 1% to 0.001% statistical chances come up in battle, usually against the human players. Movement rolls are as vey suspect - way too many opening 5 or 2 mulligans following initial 2s or 5s. Tactics are horrible. There is only so much the AIs can do in this type of app, however way to many sitting and letting the other side just shoot them with range strikers (especially warlocks) or striking at much less valuable targets that are just as or more harder to kill. Also tactics appear to have a few subtle differences between how the AI defends vs another AI or human player - example then AI regularly hangs its Titan on and edge front line position, but almost never does vs a human. tl/dr; Can be fun…a little but I recommend you do not waste your time or funds on it if you seek a challenging (but not frustrating) or competitive experience.

Indeed this is a fantastic port of an old favorite. Really catches the complex and nuanced rules of the board game, and by taking care of the bookkeeping games take a small fraction of the time the physical game would take. Graphics really capture the physical game, they look sharp and polished. Even the music and sound effects fit. The AI tactics, even on max setting, do leave some to be desired. Very reckless with their Titans, so they elim over silly battles/moves that most human players would avoid. I haven't experienced any funny business with the dice, but just like IRL the dice/RNG can be frustrating. I'd still play/buy again, and I'd recommend to any fans of the game. 5 out of 5 for a $5 board game port.

This is one of my top three board games of all time. I’ve played for decades now and want so much to love this app. Indeed, it is very well done and captures the game well. But there’s one major problem…the die rolling algorithm. I’ve debated with people about this problem so many times, but people either don’t understand statistics well or just don’t want to know. The people who do know statistics will claim that the dice are evenly distributed throughout the game. Yes, look at the die roll counters at the end of the game and it appears that way. But in the middle of the game the dice get “stuck.” You roll abnormally high counts of the same number, and it causes you to either win big or lose big. Unfortunately I seem to be on the side of the lose big too often. No, I don’t think the game is out to get me or that there is anything sinister in the algorithm…that’s just the way it goes, but it’s caused me to ragequit and delete the app for years. I then come back and it’s the same issue over and over and over again. One great recent example: my Archangel against a Serpent. The Archangel completely misses the serpent (9 rolls only needing 2’s, roll all 1s) and the Serpent kills my Archangel with one hit (18 rolls needing 6s, got 10). This is a strategy game that does have a luck element; however, strategy should beat luck the majority of the time. Sure, you’ll lose the occasional battle by luck, and that’s fine. But when it happens over and over and over and over and over again…that’s frustrating and just plain no fun. For those that doubt, keep track of ALL die rolls in the game for all players for three games. Don’t just look at the end results, look at what happens in EACH battle. That’s where you’ll notice the huge number of statistical anomalies, not just seeing things average to the mean in the end. Averaging to the mean doesn’t mean fair, particularly if one person rolls an overload of 1s, 2s, and 3s and the other rolls an overload of 4s, 5s, and 6s. Looks average in the end but obviously is not. If you don’t collect your own evidence to see this in action then please don’t comment that the die rolling is fair. It’s easy to see that it is not.

The dice rolling algorithm really is that bad! Most of the time, damage for the round (not individual rolls, but all the attacks for one side) is either extremely high or extremely low. Average damage for the round is the exception rather than the norm. I could give numerous examples. They are not hard to come by. They occur in every game, almost every battle. It’s really a shame that the dice rolling is SO off, because the rest of the is outstanding. Well, not quite. The AI is very weak. But I can overlook that because of the online games with other players. If you can deal with the mind blowing results of a horrible dice rolling algorithm, give it a try. But don’t be surprised when the dice don’t act anything like you would expect.

Great adaptation of board game. Ai in battles needs work but fun to play nonetheless

Was playing 4 or 5 games a day but now crashes after a stack reaches 7 units. Please fix Update: much better. Now if the AI was meaner...

I really have tried to like this game, but the developer did a crap job on everything but the graphics. Rather than build a decent AI, the developer simply has his cheat. It doesn’t roll for movement randomly, but rather assigns itself the number that gives it the best muster every turn, and gives you the worst possible muster. And the die rolling algorithm is completely rigged. Try attacking a Titan with anything but a skill 4 creature, and you’ll wiff every time. All your combat rolls are low, while for the AI they’re always high. Multiple emails to the developer have only resulted in him saying there’s nothing wrong with the game, which is blatantly false. I used to teach statistics at the university level and have analyzed the die rolling algorithms in the game and they are neither random nor fair. If you like nice graphics, it’s a great game. But unless you want to play against a blatantly cheating AI, avoid this game. It’s not completely crap, only mostly crap.

It’s a really good game. But, I would like to see some improvements. First, the dice algorithm as noted by others needs major improvement. It doesn’t seem random. Second, I wish there was a way to accelerate the battles between bot players. Lastly, there seems to be a bug related to viewing stacks - the stack view pop up window sometimes “sticks” (won’t dismiss).

The game is excellent, been playing for a year with friends online. Unfortunately the servers are down as of 11/22/2020. Hoping they will be restored so we can continue online play. Big thanks for this game.