Unmatched: Battle of Legends Vol. 3 Components Overview and Impressions
Whenever I open anything large than a little card game, we always try to take a two-article approach to our content: one article to go over the game’s components, and another to review the game. I was actually expecting to find a lot more inside the box when I opened my first ever Unmatched title, and was surprised – yet surprisingly delighted – by how little there was. Still, why not go over everything that comes in this box, which will be similar to other Unmatched boxes you might own, or have seen.
Unmatched: Battle of Legends Vol. 3 includes 4 brand new characters that can be used in the Unmatched universe: Pandora, Blackbeard, Loki, and the Chupacabra. Each character has almost the same components, with a few exceptions. All the characters have health dials, a deck of cards, and a very detailed miniature. In this box, Pandora and Blackbeard come with additional components.
First and foremost, the quality of the miniatures is fantastic. Generally when games only need to produce a few miniatures, the quality seems to be really good. That is definitely the case here. The detail on all the figures is great, and I love that each has been given a wash as well to give them a weathered look. Honestly, it’s a nice change of pace from the table of grey I’m use to when playing other games with miniatures.
The card quality throughout is just fine, although seeing as this will be something we return to a lot, I am thinking about sleeving the cards. I think the goal with Unmatched is to make the games incredibly accessible, which means keeping the price point down as much as possible. While the cards are not poor quality, they aren’t excellent quality either, and that’s understandable. To add linen finish to cards, while nice, is extremely expensive as we were once told by Jamey from Stonemaier Games.
The health dials were a mixed bag for me. While the final component once assembled is really great – just enough friction to keep them from spinning out of control – I had some MAJOR concerns when putting them together. The plastic connector pieces provided didn’t fit into the whole of the cardboard dial, so I had to force it. Ultimately, I do think that this is exactly the way Restoration Games wanted the dials to go together, but it would have been nice to get that instruction from the component punchboard. “Push hard, the dial will be ok!” And in the end, the dial was OK, so I actually don’t have any post-construction concerns.
The adtitional pieces are little plastic tokens for Blackbeard and Pandora which are nice and shinny, and chunky enough to hold and move with ease. Pandora has another smaller card deck (same quality as the character decks) and Blackbeard has a few cardboard tokens. The cardboard is great, and punched very easily from the punchboards. Nothing worse than tearing pieces of a brand new game because the company was too cheap to use good punchboards!
Overall, I think the quality here is fantastic, and if this is what Restoration Games has been doing across all their Unmatched releases, I understand why they are so popular and why people are so keen to collect them. The overall production is better than average, in my opinion, which is really highlighted by the fantastic miniature quality!
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Article By Adam Roffel
