Mythic Games Announce Rainbow 6: Siege – The Board Game
February 26, 2021 by brennon
Mythic Games has announced a team-up with Ubisoft to bring the Rainbow 6 universe to the tabletop. The exceptionally popular Rainbow 6: Siege is going to be coming to Kickstarter this summer as they work on a new board game.
Rainbow 6: Siege - The Board Game // Mythic Games
Rainbow 6: Siege is a pretty darn awesome game where you put together competing teams of Operators who try and undertake deadly missions. This could be stopping a bomb from going off or rescuing hostages. With its Attacker Vs Defender gameplay, it seems like it would work really well in a board game format.
Rainbow 6: Siege - The Board Game
The different asymmetrical Operators allow the folks at Mythic Games to really play around with team compositions and I could see it being a real brain-teaser when working out the best team for the job. With so many different skills and abilities to draw on, it should make for some tense engagements between players.
Whilst I don't have the twitch skills to play the first-person shooter to any degree of competence I can easily push miniatures around a tabletop and roll dice!
Are you interested in finding out more?
"With so many different skills and abilities to draw on, it should make for some tense engagements between players..."
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Nope. To be honest I’m getting annoyed by the amount of video game to board game that are starting to happen… some things just don’t translate well from A to B….
I think that Siege is a pretty good game to translate. The teams of operators, each with their own abilities, working to complete objectives in a small space/map. I think it could be a lot of fun as a proper versus/team experience.
Oh I have no doubt that these games can be fun. It only feels like a few years ago when every video game and their mother needed a zombie mode… It’s like companies see a trend and instead of getting creative they run the horse not only to the ground but all the way to earths core. It’s a similar feeling for me on these adaptations lately. But that’s a topic for a whole weekend…. er… 😉
Well I think having more options and more games is always good for us. The fact that they release a game, doesn’t mean you have to like or buy it. I’m sure somebody will be happy getting it and that’s fine for me 🙂
Totally true, no argument there. But making these games takes resources away from potential other things that *I* might want… 😉 (not being to serious here)
Hahahaha I feel you man
That’s actually happening with Steamforged Games. They dropped Guildball for KS IP games. I dunno if this will be a good idea in the long run. A sign of the CCG market bottoming out was when every ccg had to be tied in with an IP. Of course, “lifestyle” games are harder to support than most boardgames, so we’ll see. I do like tangible bits for my media favorites. The Lord of the Ring IP seems to have done well with the hobbit community, but may be an exception?
I was going to say something similar. This kind of feels like a they’re jumping on an IP for the sake of it. It will probably have nice miniatures, because it’s Mythic, but the sheer amount of licenses that are being shoe horned into tabletop games these days is pretty staggering
Ooh nice for some reason (paint it black) started playing in my head reading this one!?
I would say UK backers be careful of Kickstarters coming from the EU. I’m stuck in the Corvus Belli ‘Defiance’ fiasco with UK copies still stuck in Spain while the rest of the word have theirs. I know the shipment of this game is still 12-18 months away, but I have no confidence that Boso Boris and his cronies will get this mess sorted out by then. One can hope
I absolutely agree with you Lug45. I am in the same boat as you with Defiance and I bought the full package. I am raging. Another thing that you need to be careful over. I had ordered an item from Germany and, when it got here, the import taxes, VAT and handling charges that I got billed with was twice the value of the item. The whole import/export business is a weapons-grade clusterf**K.
We won’t see hidden charges (As its produced in the EY, they pay the VAT anyway and can claim back a second charge if it were to happen) but no one can clear our port delays any quicker. I’ve triple checked with Mythic this is the case, but I’m all over the VAT situation from ties/collaborating with other big projects. Boris the buffoon is not going to do anything but further cripple us, so delays are a long term thing here to stay but that’s going to be true of all and any products and simply something we have to… Read more »
I appreciate Brexit is a sensitive topic but this situation is not the fault or responsibility of the UK government.
Suffice to say – the EUrocrats created this situation. It could be resolved easily. Officials choose not to. We, the citizen suffer. If anything this should prove how utterly uninterested the EU is in trade and why we left.
What are you smoking?
If its a board game of 4 vs 4 inside a house etc.. then its not for me at all and I love modern.
BUT..
If it was a travel the world hunting down the bad guys in warehouses, airport or a cruise ship then I`m in.
Always wanted a ghost recon skirmish game, or the division as your team travel around new york in the snow ?
Lets see whats coming…
As it’s based on Siege specifically I would imagine it’s more of the team “versus” gameplay style of thing. I’d recommend Spectre if you’ve not given it a shot for Moderns in the style you’re looking to play.
there is an unboxing on Monday 1st you should watch out for, with more unboxings and hopefully Let’s Play to come
Super good to hear…..big thanks
interested to see what they do, even just for the mini’s
Yep, because with Mythic it is always about the plastic and not really the game (because you will be paying revised rules with a 2nd edition in no time).
It is sad to see a franchise like Rainbow 6 degraded into a basic 4 vs 4 shooter a la counterstrike.
I would have preferred a R6 game without it being tied into a videogame.
As a basis for a modern skirmish game with quests/missions that need not be ‘kill everyone’ it could be soo much more.
And the one thing (IMHO) we really need is a modern skirmish game with high end production values, because as cool as the existing options like SpecOps are … they can be a bit tricky to find.
Well, Solomon Kane Wave 1 is shipping, but these projects are outstanding?
* HEL
* Steamwatchers
* Joan of Arc 1.5
* Darkest Dungeon
Yep.
Did you think that the rest of a company sits on their behinds while one project is at the factory and ready to ship ? Of course not.
Designers need work too you know … they can’t just get fired after a game is done and get re-hired whenever the next one needs them again.
That may be how video game companies work, but any sane company would prefer a bit of stability …
I think we all understand that a company will have a pipeline of products, some ready to ship, others at a very early stage of development. The point being that when you have projects running late, or lacking the resources and playtesting to be called fully developed, it is a bit cheeky to announce yet another KS.
It wonder with these KS dependent companies that they get caught in a trap where if cannot stop running on the hamster wheel. It seems CMON derive 50% of their income from KS, so they are unlikely to be able to stop anytime soon.
one project running late tends to have effects on other projects in terms of resources as well. You can ‘solve’ this by adding buffers, but even those have limits. Fact is that product development and research isn’t as predictable as a factory production line. You can get ‘predictable’ timings if you repeat the same thing often enough (ie : milk a game like Zombicide for all its worth …) There is always a danger that once a project slips too far it starts to have detrimental effects, which means that hard choices need to be made. And those choices can… Read more »
Don’t believe the hype.
I would definitely be interested as the pace of the board game would fit my aging reflexes better than the video games. Also, minis can potentially be used for modern wargame rules, which is always a plus when deciding upon which boardgame to paint.
Why make a board game about the worst game in the series, Rainbow Six used to be great back in the day.