Manhattan Project: War Machine
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Manhattan Project: War Machine – Build Your Own War Machine
Get ready to launch your mighty military industry in Manhattan Project: War Machine , a strategic, solitaire board game where you take control of national war production. Your goal? Transform your nation into a perfect war machine, balancing resources, energy, workers, and nuclear contamination. Easier said than done.
Each turn presents you with critical decisions: how to use your worker dice? Which buildings to construct to boost production? Will you be able to create synergies between your structures or will you waste time and precious materials? The game offers tense and rewarding resource management , perfect for those who love to optimize every single step.
With the option to play solo, Manhattan Project: War Machine is the perfect experience for fans of management games, where every move can mean the difference between a superpower and an epic failure.
What Makes War Machine an Irresistible Strategy Engine
- Strategic board game for 1-4 players , with excellent solo mode
- Worker dice for a unique and choice-filled placement mechanic
- Construction engine with building combo and resource/energy management
- War setting in the Second World War with an industrial focus
- Short duration but rich in decisions, challenges and tactical satisfaction
Can you lead your nation to supremacy, or will you succumb to the chaos of your own war machine? In War Machine, intention isn't enough: pure efficiency is required.
Manhattan Project: War Machine
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🐸 HOW TO PLAY
1. Build an industrial engine using nut-operators
Each turn you begin by rolling up to three dice: each face represents a type of worker (industrial, government, private, energy, or nuclear). Each die you “block” acts as a worker to occupy a specific sector of your board, dice-placement style.
2. Activate shared structures and actions
Activated sectors produce resources, energy, or money. Every major action can be replicated by other players in a smaller form, meaning every choice you make can—indirectly—help others (or make them pay a price).
3. Expand your empire by building structures
With resources and money, you can construct buildings in your personal area. Some provide instant boosts, others long-term bonuses or victory points. Knowing how to connect structures is important to maximize the engine's performance.
4. Manage pollution and increase production capacity
Using atomic workers generates pollution, which must be managed with costly cleanup actions. Over time, you can unlock warehouse upgrades and structures that allow you to roll more dice or keep more buildings operational.
5. The winner is the one who accumulates the most points and manages the engine best.
After a fixed number of rounds, points are calculated from resources, buildings, private objectives, advanced structures, and pollution cleanups. Whoever has built a balanced, efficient, and powerful engine... wins the industrial war!
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43.5X66mm - Quantity 24
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Manhattan Project: War Machine
In the silence of the factories comes the roar of victory.
Build a perfect war machine with dice, energy, and production. Victory doesn't wait.
Manhattan Project: War Machine – Ignite Industry, Fuel the War
Your country needs you.
Not to fight, but to build .
In Manhattan Project: War Machine , you are in command of your nation's manufacturing apparatus: every move, every die, every structure is a spark that fuels the engine of war.
Manage die-workers, develop your infrastructure, optimize energy and deal with nuclear contamination… all to transform a simple assembly line into a perfect, efficient and unstoppable machine .
A strategic dice-placing and industrial combo game, with solo and multiplayer modes , that challenges you to achieve peak efficiency… before it's too late.
Manhattan Project: War Machine – Dice, Structures, and Military Power
Manhattan Project: War Machine , published by Grail Games, is a strategic board game for 1-4 players , set in an alternate era of World War II.
Unlike classic military games, here you don't command troops... but industry : produce war goods, manage energy, hire workers in the form of dice and develop your network of buildings to create increasingly high-performance production chains.
The key to the game is to build an efficient economic machine , where every action is part of a larger mechanism: intelligent placements, building choices, synergies between structure cards and objectives.
With low language dependency , a really well-implemented solitaire mode and a “modern German game” feel, War Machine is perfect for fans of pure planning and industrial combos.
We played it. And we enlisted 🐸
It seems simple at first: a few dice, a few buildings, a little production. 🐸
Then you realize that every die can become a machine, that every choice can overturn the subsequent turns.
War Machine won us over with its fast pace, the industrial-engine feel that grows visibly, and the satisfaction it gives when everything fits together.
Perfect for those who enjoy intelligent solitaire games , or for 2-3 player tables that want a quick but deep planning challenge.
And then… those dice that become workers are irresistible.
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Una buona mossa è silenziosa. La vittoria, inevitabile. – Ranaldo Stratega
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I giochi da tavolo non servono a passare il tempo. Servono a viverlo meglio. – La Rana Saggia
Ogni regola è un’opportunità nascosta. Scoprila con occhi nuovi. – Il Girino Curioso
Non so come ho vinto. Ma è stato divertentissimo. Rigioca, se hai il coraggio. – La Ranarock Ribelle
Una buona mossa è silenziosa. La vittoria, inevitabile. – Ranaldo Stratega
Non serve vincere per giocare bene. Serve giocare per stare bene. – Zio Rospo Zen
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