Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid Review

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We review Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid, a cooperative board game published by Renegade Games Studios. Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid is a cooperative tower defense style game based on the popular Power Rangers IP.

This is a guest post from Marcus Burchers.

A few years ago, I walked into my local store and saw there was a brand new display for a Power Rangers miniatures game, Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid. I kind of laughed about it at the time, because when was the last time there had been a serious Power Rangers board game (the only one I could think of at all was one from back in 1994). The idea stuck with me though for whatever reason, and we ended up trying it. Almost three years later, the game has dozens of expansions and has spawned an entire system that’s expanding out to other IPs.

Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid is a cooperative miniatures game for 1-6 players that takes 90-120 minutes to play. The best experience is with 5 players.

The game is, in essence, a form of tower defense. At the start of each round, the enemy foot soldiers, monsters, and ultimately the boss have a Deployment Phase when they are placed on the board in a semi-random fashion based on a constructed deployment deck. The remainder of the round (called the Action Phase) is fairly free-form, as each Ranger can spend their 2-3 actions (depending on player count) in any way they see fit, with the round not being over until all the Rangers have used their actions.

The Action Phase is where most of the gameplay takes place, and the real meat of the Action Phase is the battle action, which initiates a battle between all Rangers and all enemies in a given location. In a battle, the Rangers get to make choices about the cards and