Back in 2011, at the outset of the attempt to design what became Titanomachina, I wanted to be able to put Titans in the same game as conventional forces and elite forces. I feel like I've accomplished this game design goal, less through design than through the efforts of development. And after this latest game of Titanomachina playing a force of Myrmidon Mega-Ants against a mirror force, I feel like there's certainly room for development.
Firstly I should take the visual language developed for the Titan system cards and extend them to the ant squads cards, and especially the platoon cards, better. If you're not aware, the platoon cards are intended to enable players to act with several ant units at once, where the ant unit of five Myrmidons corresponds to a system on a Titan.
Currently those cards aren't really clear, given how they're supposed to take the cogs per action and apply it to up to three units portrayed on the cards. I was brainstorming a way to represent the bonus walk action of the Assault Ants, but I think I might just drop it entirely, as Assault Ants already have a great set of attacks. They can also be used for Spotting, Charge and Redeploy. This is only tangentially related to getting ripped apart by Assault Ant reinforcements in rounds 3-5.
There's also a good point about making the squads themselves more easily recognisable on the table. While I'm currently using Reversi chips, for their nice round shape, they also have some annoying behaviour making them finicky to use. Also, I can use Tabletop Simulator's token creation function to make some round tokens with symbols on them and lock the ant models to those.
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