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If you like chess and robots, you need to play Mechabellum
I look at my robots, and I mull. I’ve got tanky Steel Balls serving as a mobile frontline, buffered through hordes of l…
I’ve got tanky Steel Balls serving as a mobile frontline, buffered through hordes of little Crawlers carefully positioned to soak up sniper fire. The curtain drops and I see my opponent has pivoted to swarms of the buggers, forcing me to watch as they tear through my carefully balanced army with zero practical air-defence. There's this deep world of hidden intricacies that builds into an eerily familiar feeling that leaves me scratching my head as to why I've lost, but itching to pinpoint where it all went wrong.
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