Once you have placed explosions you also place a number of hazardous materials, which explode if they touch fire, and a number of points of interest tokens which are either people/animals you need to save, or blank tokens designed to waste your time! Each player then receives a role card giving them a unique ability to use throughout the game.

Players are firefighters who at the simplest "family" level can move, put out fires, cut through walls and rescue victims; higher levels introduce specialized roles such as the fire captain, the engine operator, hazmat technicians and paramedics. [1] The game "owe[s] a lot to Pandemic". [3] Development [ edit ] Flashpoint game in progress

About This Game

One of the most interesting things about Flash Point: Fire Rescue is that any action points you don’t use on one turn can be saved for your next, this allows you to take a breather in an area that isn’t on fire, rather than risk standing in a dangerous place just to use those last action points. Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a co-operative game for 1-6 players from Indie Boards and Cards. The players take on the role of a team of firefighters trying to put out the fire in a house and rescue the people and animals trapped inside. You will be putting out fires, trying to control the risks of hazardous material, investigating points of interest and carrying casualties to the ambulance, all whilst trying to ensure that the house does not collapse due to too much damage caused by the fire. Flash Point: Fire Rescue follows the formula of many co-operative games, having a relatively short list of potential actions and giving each player a number of actions to spend on their turn. The theme of Flash Point: Fire Rescue makes it quite obvious and intuitive for new players to decide what moves to make. Each player can take on the roll of a specific type of firefighter: The CAFS Firefighter who can extinguish fires without using action points, the Fire Captain who can use their action points to move other players around, the Rescue Specialist who can move farther and can chop through walls easier. Perhaps the players would prefer to play the Imaging Technician who can identify where the victims are, or the diver/operator who can use the fire engine much easier than others. What firefighting team would be complete without the Hazmat Technician who can dispose of hazardous materials easier than others, the Paramedic who can heal the victims and get them out of the fire faster or the extremely useful and versatile Generalist who has an extra action point.

We got the call, a building is burning and there are people trapped inside. Fire is spreading and time is running out. We've had reports of explosions and the whole thing can come crashing down at any moment. You know the job: get those survivors out of there. Flash Point: Fire Rescue is designed to encourage you to carefully manage the risks you take. Sure, you can run to that point of interest and find out if it’s a person, but if the fire spreads to them before your next turn you’ll just end up burning with them. I think this works well with the theme of a profession in which, by its very nature, you risk your life. A firefighter is no help if they run into an inferno and just become another body to save, but if they use the tools available to them to create a safe avenue then they can save lives, though perhaps not everyone. Will your team galvanize together, think on their feet and keep the fire at bay, or will the dice rolls mimic the chaotic behavior of a real fire and cause the house to collapse before you’ve had the opportunity to rescue the people inside? Flash Point: Fire Rescue- Gameplay As the official digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game from Indie Boards and Cards you will experience the same excitement and challenge of the original in a light-hearted digital form. Key Features Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a thematic cooperative board game designed by Kevin Lanzing with the help of firefighters. [1] released in November 2011. [2] The objective is for players to work together to rescue people and animals from a burning building before it collapses. Since the initial release of the game several expansions have been published, which add additional scenarios for players experience. These include fires in a high rise building, a two-story house, and a submarine.For more experienced players, there are a number of ways to make the game more challenging. There are three different ways to set up for different difficulty levels, typically with more starting explosions and more hot spots for harder difficulty. In addition, the board is double-sided, with one side normally causing more problems than the other due to its geometry. If you really love Flash Point: Fire Rescue, there’s even expansion maps which alter the difficulty, add extra rules and change-up your experience. For 2-4 players though, Flash Point: Fire Rescue is a wonderful game that really makes you feel like a hero! Fiona’s Final Thoughts It includes two additional maps (one on each side of the included board): Brownstone, an urban duplex apartment; and High Rise, an office building introducing elevator spaces, light walls and heavily reinforced walls. The expansions further includes a Structural Engineer, that can Clear Hot Spots and Repair Damaged Walls. After a player has taken all their actions they roll the dice, these give you a grid co-ordinate in the house. Should this co-ordinate be empty then you fill it with smoke, should it have smoke in it then the smoke turns to fire and should there be fire in it then there is an explosion, causing fire to spread in four directions. Your team will need to make the most of each turn using limited action points and specialized abilities to explore the environment, tame the volatile fire and rescue the survivors before the building is reduced to rubble.

Flash Point is a co-operative game where the players take on the rolls of firefighters attending the scene of a house fire; they need to fight the fire, rescue the occupants and ensure that all this is done before too many of the occupants have died or the house collapses. There are some negatives. As with most dice games, sometimes the dice just hate you. There is variable difficulty and even a simplified family version, but ultimately the extra hazards aren’t a threat if you never roll them. Flash Point is great for small player counts where your turns come relatively fast, but at the higher player counts the wait between turns can be a little painful, it feels like your firefighter has completely lost any sense of urgency and is casually strolling around as the house burns and explodes around them.Generally most logical moves are a good option. Like many co-operative games in this style, there is the opportunity for one player to try and take over and decide everyone’s move, but if everyone is conscious to avoid this ‘alpha-player’ scenario then all players should be able to make a big contribution, even in a first game. In addition, if playing with young experienced players, the base game even includes a family rule set with no special character abilities and few extra simplifications. For gamers this can be quite boring but it’s worth it to get everyone around the table familiar with the mechanics. Fire tokens spread, turning all adjacent smoke tokens into fire tokens, combine this with hot spots, which make you roll additional times when you roll them, and the house fire can soon get out of hand. Ultimately if you manage to save enough people from the fire then you win the game, however the game is lost if the house falls down or if too many people die in the blaze. Amy’s Final Thoughts