Transmissions

And the robots are so cute that I could squeak ( and I am not a girl girl)

😄 I'd agree, Tina, and I'm not girl man (whatever that is). 🤔

😂🤣

Maybe it's me not knowing what an Automa Deck is. 😄 I think of it as a special deck that only the AI Player uses, like the one for Patchwork.

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With Transmissions, each of the potential 4 Players has a deck comprised of the same 7 cards, as seen below (the 4 cards across the bottom are the backs of the cards for each Player). The 4 cards across the top are the Robot Cards. If you played the green robot, you'd move it up to 3 spaces. If you played the top-half of the center Location Card (from the row in the middle), you'd move a robot in the Meadow (the round group of flowers) a distance based on the color of the robot. If you used the bottom half (the rock) you'd move a robot that was in the lake. As the human Player, you just keep cycling through those 7 cards (your deck doesn't grow - always 7 cards). Harvey uses the combination of the 7 cards from the other 'remaining' 3 Players, so he has 21 cards (3 of each one). His main difference is when he draws a Location Card, he uses all the Locations on the card (if he can), whereas you only get to use one.

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So whadda ya think, Z? Is that an Automa Deck? 🤔

I see you can not call it an Automa deck (because its primary purpose is to be a player deck, and therefore it is not a dedicated component, unlike the typical "Automa deck" that could be advertised on a KS campaign page with a Turczi solo mode), but in my simple world, a deck of cards that is used by an Automa becomes de facto an Automa deck!

Anyway, thanks a lot for the detailed explanations!

I have a very 'legalist' view on board games, to me the actual components don't matter. If you use a deck of six cards numbered 1-6, draw one to get a value, and reshuffle it every time, I'll call it a d6 without blinking!

U B welcome, Z. That was probably more explaining than I've done in all my previous Posts combined. 😄 What's gotten into me? 🤔