Aerial Assault - The Robot Card Game

[GTaylor]

Hey, We're still looking for robot photos for the cards, so if you want your team to be in the game just email photos of your robot to robotcardgame@gmail.com and we'll use them if we can. Thanks!

Also, on the name:
My father kept calling the FRC game "aerial assault" at the beginning of the season, so when we didn't get a clear OK from FIRST to use the name, we put that in as filler. After a few meeting about the name, we decided just to keep it.

[KingPut]

Aerial Assault - The Robot Card Game based on the 2014 First Robotics competition is now available.

In the card game you and friends and family can build a robot, train your drivers and compete for a Blue Banner all in 30-45 minutes.

To order the game click on this link:

http://www.escapevelocitygames.com/aerial-assault/

or email me at pputnam1966@yahoo.com.

Here's a review of the game http://geekdad.com/2014/09/aerial-assault/

[stevencole]

In case you missed it a few weeks ago, Amazon has been restocked!

Originally Posted by KingPut

Aerial Assault - The Robot Card Game based on the 2014 First Robotics competition is now available.

In the card game you and friends and family can build a robot, train your drivers and compete for a Blue Banner all in 30-45 minutes.

To order the game click on this link:

http://www.escapevelocitygames.com/aerial-assault/

or email me at pputnam1966@yahoo.com.

Here's a review of the game http://geekdad.com/2014/09/aerial-assault/

[EDesbiens]

Just bought it! It seems really cool! What is the format of the cards? I would like to buy sleeves...

[KingPut]

Standard Magic the Gathering sleeves will work fine.

[KingPut]

I wanted to list out the teams that we used photos in the Aerial Assault card game. I wish we could have used photos of more teams in the game. If your team wasn't included in the game never fear. It's pretty easy to make up a robot card with a photo of your robot or maybe your favorite alliance partners using Power Point or some other graphics program. Here's the list of teams we used in the game.

And thanks again for giving us permission to use the photo of your robot.

Featured Teams that you can play as in base set:
Team #1610 - Builders of Tomorrow
Team #1885 - ILITE Robotics
Team #225 – TechFire
Team #2363 Tripple Helix

Teams with photo on action cards include: 304, 306, 308, 316, 341 - Miss Daisy, 357 – Royal Assault, 365, 484, 433, 533, 708, 1114, 1540, 1625, 1678, 2067, 2168, 2590, 3175

Featured Teams in Deluxe set
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1023 Bedford Express

Teams with photos in Deluxe set include: 11, 48, 56, 74, 193, 195, 230, 234, 254, 1625, 4473

Direct link to Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Velocity-Games-Aerial-Assault/dp/B012YVHA0U/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=escavelogame-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=ZCFAGIMROTT3AP4O&creativeAS IN=B012YVHA0U&utm_source=Website+Signup&utm_campai gn=9834380eae-Newsletter_02_07_23_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term =0_eb731dfe74-9834380eae-193937045

[EDesbiens]

Received the game a few days ago and you guys did a great job! I love it!

[logank013]

Originally Posted by KingPut

I wanted to list out the teams that we used photos in the Aerial Assault card game. I wish we could have used photos of more teams in the game. If your team wasn't included in the game never fear. It's pretty easy to make up a robot card with a photo of your robot or maybe your favorite alliance partners using Power Point or some other graphics program. Here's the list of teams we used in the game.

And thanks again for giving us permission to use the photo of your robot.

Featured Teams that you can play as in base set:
Team #1610 - Builders of Tomorrow
Team #1885 - ILITE Robotics
Team #225 – TechFire
Team #2363 Tripple Helix

Teams with photo on action cards include: 304, 306, 308, 316, 341 - Miss Daisy, 357 – Royal Assault, 365, 484, 433, 533, 708, 1114, 1540, 1625, 1678, 2067, 2168, 2590, 3175

Featured Teams in Deluxe set
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1023 Bedford Express

Teams with photos in Deluxe set include: 11, 48, 56, 74, 193, 195, 230, 234, 254, 1625, 4473

Direct link to Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Velocity-Games-Aerial-Assault/dp/B012YVHA0U/ref=as_sl_pc_ss_til?tag=escavelogame-20&linkCode=w01&linkId=ZCFAGIMROTT3AP4O&creativeAS IN=B012YVHA0U&utm_source=Website+Signup&utm_campai gn=9834380eae-Newsletter_02_07_23_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term =0_eb731dfe74-9834380eae-193937045

No 2056? That's harsh I'm really thinking about getting this game.

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by logank013

No 2056? That's harsh I'm really thinking about getting this game.

There are a lot of rules to learn very quickly. But once you get into it the game is very exciting and several times has come down to a nail biter at the end on the last turn. Getting the deluxe set also allows you to play 3v3 instead of 2v2.

"Give us money and your team will be put on a card"
Virginia teams be like

[logank013]

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

There are a lot of rules to learn very quickly. But once you get into it the game is very exciting and several times has come down to a nail biter at the end on the last turn. Getting the deluxe set also allows you to play 3v3 instead of 2v2.

"Give us money and your team will be put on a card"
Virginia teams be like

haha. I'm not sure about the money thing. 234, my team, had a decent 2014 year but never made it to worlds. Somehow, we got on a card. lol

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by logank013

haha. I'm not sure about the money thing. 234, my team, had a decent 2014 year but never made it to worlds. Somehow, we got on a card. lol

I mean the featured teams. 1/2 of them are VA teams. With 3/4 of the base set being VA.

[logank013]

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

I mean the featured teams. 1/4 of them are VA teams.

Haha. I see now. I'm sure if I invented a card game for robotics, many teams from my state would be on it. But i'd also add some usual greats like 1114, 148, 254, 2056, 33, 233, 2826, 1023, 118, 16, etc.

[Lij2015]

Can confirm from playing this 3v3 over the summer, its fantastic! However in order to enjoy it you can't really be a casual FRC team member.

[KingPut]

Originally Posted by logank013

Haha. I see now. I'm sure if I invented a card game for robotics, many teams from my state would be on it. But i'd also add some usual greats like 1114, 148, 254, 2056, 33, 233, 2826, 1023, 118, 16, etc.

I was hoping to get a better geographical distribution of team photos but getting good useable photos of team robots was actually harder than I thought it was going to be. 1st we needed a clear close up photo of the robot, 2nd we need a photo without any people in shot, 3rd we needed a contact person to get permission to use the photo. I'm a MAR-Middle Atlantic Robotics volunteer and I live just north of Baltimore, MD so it was just a lot easier get photos from the east coast teams.

From my earlier post. Feel free to make up your own teams cards and share them with each other. It's pretty easily to moch one up on Powerpoint. The back of the card matters on the action card but it doesn't really matter on the team card or build cards so be creative.

[KingPut]

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

There are a lot of rules to learn very quickly. But once you get into it the game is very exciting and several times has come down to a nail biter at the end on the last turn. Getting the deluxe set also allows you to play 3v3 instead of 2v2.

Thanks for the great comments about the game. That's great to here you've ended up with some nail biters. In the 2vs2 game our scores usually ended in the 80-90 point range, 3v3 with the extra points for autonomous and assists the scores broke 100.

Sorry to everyone about the amount of rules, 10 pages. We knew robotics people are really smart so we didn't want to dumb down the game to FRC Candyland. We tried to keep it as real as possible with Tank Drives, Swerve Drives, Mechanum Drives and Pneumatic Catapults. At the same time we tried to make a game you can play in less than hour. No FRC Monopoly here. It's great to hear that once you learned the rules things ran well. Everyone we play tested the game with seemed to pick up the rules pretty quickly.