Boardgames

Pocket Landship 2nd edition

A steampunk card wargame for 1–2 players, featuring dice-driven attacks, Landship customization, enemy waves, and expanded multiplayer options.

45
minutes

1 - 2
player(s)

Medium Light

Pocket Landship 2nd edition board game cover

About this board game

Pocket Landship 2nd Edition is a steampunk card wargame for 1–2 players, with games lasting about 45 minutes. Command a Landship—the original British term for tanks—and clear a sector filled with enemy infantry, artillery, enemy mechs, and mine fields.

Choose a Landship and build your force with weapons or support units. You can create a single high-powered Landship or a more varied defending force that includes a squad of shock troops. Expanded gameplay adds further enemy and friendly options, along with multiplayer possibilities.

Enemy forces arrive in waves, arranged as two rows of three cards. Each turn, roll three six-sided dice and assign one die to each of your cards to attack. During the enemy turn, roll the three dice again and assign them from low to high, left to right, across the front enemy line before resolving the assigned actions.

  • Manage individual damage tracks for every card.
  • Battle enemy mech, artillery, infantry, and mine fields.
  • Destroy all nine enemy cards to win.
  • Protect your Landship, or lose the game when it is destroyed.

The Black Box version includes a larger box designed to hold sleeved cards. It contains the standard second-edition cards, dice, and rule booklet, including the weather card and weather die, as well as the cards from the No Man’s Land expansion.

The box also provides room for sleeved Kickstarter-exclusive cards unlocked during that campaign and the two Driver Kickstarter-exclusive cards from the first Kickstarter. With its compact card-based battlefield and dice assignment system, Pocket Landship 2nd Edition puts command decisions, force composition, and survival at the center of every sortie.