Cactus Game Design Message Boards

The cards should be thick stock with slits, so that they can transform into miniatures during the game (looking something like simplified Pirates ships).

Personally I've never been a fan of the 3D games. They lose interest quickly. And Hasbro tried that before and it flopped.

Although the game does have mechanics for Characters to Transform.

As to Territories, the game does have that, but the goal is to defeat the Supreme Commander of the Opponent and their main Base. But I was thinking of making it more based on Energy Sources, since the Desepticons are almost always trying to get energy to fuel their conquest.
But nice ideas altogether! My energy Source idea would be kinda a combo of an Artifact and a Lost Soul, but they would be in a territory for people to take. What other suggestions?

Actually, my idea is to have them be more like this:
There are 2 ways to play a Power Source,
1. If you win a battle in an Arena, you may take the Power Source listed in that arena from any players Deck and play it on one of your Bases, or take that Power Source from an Opponents Base and add it to your Fuel Pile.
Or 2. If you draw a Power Source, you may play it to your Fuel Pile. You may only play 1 Power Source per turn. And may only place 1 Power Source on a Base per turn. Power Sources effects activate during your Prep Phase. Cards in a Fuel Pile cannot activate their effects.

That is my idea for Power Sources. They will constantly be a struggle between getting them just like in the shows, movies and comics. It will also determine time-out rounds.

Off topic, did you by chance get Fall of Cybertron? Highly recommended.

That would be pretty cool, I would buy it for just that alone.