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Thunder Road: Vendetta – Board Game Review

Thunder Road: Vendetta

Thunder Road: Vendetta is a board game published by Restoration Games in 2023. It is a remake of the 1986 game Thunder Road from Milton Bradley.  The new version adds a plethora of new features over the original.  

Thunder Road: Vendetta is available for purchase from Amazon.com.  This is basically the Mad Max of board games, and it’s a whole lot of fun.

Thunder Road: Vendetta contents

The game is for 2-4 players and takes about 60-90 minutes to play. It is a dice-rolling, car-racing, and shooting game in which players race down a variable track, trying to be the first one to cross the finish line. Along the way, they can shoot each other’s vehicles, ram into each other, and use special abilities to try to gain an advantage.

Thunder Road Vendetta has simple rules, fast gameplay, and exciting action. 

Contents:

You get 12 car minis – 3 vehicles per player
You get 5 doubles sided road boards. That makes for 10 different boards, and a lot of options.
You get 4 choppers – 1 per player
You also get Hazard Tokens, Damage Tokens, FX Dice, Movement Dice, Command Boards and Dashboards

You also get a colorful, and well written 12 page rule book.  

Gameplay:

“Thunder Road: Vendetta is a game of fast turns, and dicey decisions. Command your crew of cars as they race though perilous roads, dodge hazards, slam into cars, and fire those guns.  HOW TO WIN THIS RACE – Be the first player to move one of your cars off the final tile –OR– be the last player standing.”

Players carefully (or uncarefully) move down each section of the track from one end to the other.  There is no set Finish Line at the beginning of the game until one player has been eliminated. Once a player has been eliminated, the lead tile becomes the finish line.  The player that drives off the board first wins.  

Everyone’s fate is decided by dice rolls, hazards, cliff walls, pits, shrapnel, sand, oil slicks, mud, and more.  Players can try to navigate the tricky terrain and avoid other players.  Or they can simply go bonkers smashing into every car they can, trying to knock players into hazards.  But any move can backfire at any time.

Playing Thunder Road: Vendetta at home.

Here are some of the pros and cons of Thunder Road: Vendetta:

Pros:

Cons:

Not a real image from the game, but this should give you a feel of how chaotic it plays. 😉

Conclusion:

Overall, Thunder Road: Vendetta is a fun and exciting game that is sure to please fans of dice-rolling and car-racing games.  This game cranks the fun factor to 11!  

If you are looking for a more strategic or complex game, then you may want to look elsewhere.  You can go from 3 cars to zero in the blink of an eye.  We think the chaos is fantastic, some people might not enjoy that in their board games.

Pojo Notes:

None of the expansions are mandatory whatsoever.  First pick-up the base game and see if you like it.  Then grab the Big Rig expansion if you want to play with 5 players, or want to spice things up.  We like the Devil’s Run expansion for the crew leaders.  The Devil’s Run expansion also adds a bit of card drafting so that each players car’s have a unique special power.  And finally, the Devil’s Run expansion if fun for extra boards, and driving while on fire!

Thunder Road: Vendetta is available for purchase from Amazon.com

The expansions can be tough to find, but some are available directly from the publisher –  Restoration Games.

 

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