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Critical Mass: Patriot vs Iron Curtain

#172008BGG ↗

2018 · 2-2 players · 30min · weight 2.20 · 356 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
172008
Name
Critical Mass: Patriot vs Iron Curtain
Year
2018
Rank
7308
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
2.2
Num weights
5
Bayes avg
5.65574
Average
6.75398
Users rated
356
Num owned
848
Wanting
27
Wishing
229
Num comments
90
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (5)
Deck, Bag, and Pool BuildingHand ManagementRock-Paper-ScissorsSimultaneous Action SelectionVariable Player Powers
Categories (3)
Card GameFightingScience Fiction
Description (1034 chars)

Critical Mass is a fast-paced mech combat game. Players go head-to-head in this fighting-strategy game with deck-building aspects. Players choose their favorite mech to battle it out, with each mech offering a different loadout of cards to start the game and unique powers. Each turn, players play a card face-down. When both players have chosen a card, they reveal them. Cards resolve based on their speed if they haven't been interrupted. Weapons deal damage and interrupt the enemy, while defending avoids weapon hits. Upgrading offers you additional cards to add to your arsenal but is vulnerable to being interrupted. Lastly, recharge reloads spent cards. As cards are played, they go to their owner's cool-down pile, where they remain until they're reloaded. As players take damage, the armor on their mech is destroyed. When enough armor is destroyed, an armor core becomes vulnerable and can be destroyed to stun that mech for the next turn. The game ends when a mech's armor is completely destroyed down to the last core.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.