Anna, Gunter, Zehra et al. all have companions, so why shouldn't you? ScytheKick is your sidekick for Scythe, the award winning board game from Stonemaier games (http://stonemaiergames.com/games/scythe/). ScytheKick lets you configure a Scythe game, optionally manage Automa players and then score the game, by navigating through a series of screens using the left and right facing Character Buttons along the bottom. To start, you select the total player count as well as the Automa count, which expansions to include and if you are playing a single match or a match as part of the Rise of Fenris Campaign (requires an additional in-app purchase). You can access the app Settings sheet from the Mech Menu Button in the upper left corner. Navigate right to select the player factions and mats. The Draw Button randomly picks the mats, and allows for random repicking, or the individual mats can be selected by swiping up and down on their images. You can also enter the player names. The free version of the app lets you have two players from the base game. Additional players can be unlocked with the Premium upgrade, and Invaders from Afar factions are unlocked with the Invaders from Afar upgrade. After showing a summary of the players (including who goes first), you can draw (or pick) the Structure Bonus Tiles. Additional modules (Extra Bonus Tiles from the Modular Board, Resolution and Airship Tiles from the Wind Gambit and modules from the Rise of Fenris) can be unlocked via in-app purchases. Navigate to the scoring screens to enter the points per category (popularity, stars, etc.) per player, and ScytheKick will automatically calculate the scores. The final screen is a summary of the scores for all players, which can be shared. If playing with Automa, after selecting the modules, you navigate to the Automa screen, which has a page for each player (human and Automa). The faction tabs indicate the current player, and there is a button to advance to the next player's turn. The Automa player page lets you draw Automa turn cards and combat cards, and will automatically track the position on the Automa's star tracker, shuffle and flip from Scheme I to Scheme II as you discard cards. If playing with the Automa Helper upgrade, a map can be called up which tracks the automa unit positions (you need to update human player units) and will solve the Automa movement rules for you. On compatible devices, the map can be viewed in augmented reality. (using the AR Board Upgrade). All of the controls on the Automa screen support Undo, accessed via the Mech menu. Use the menu to navigate to Scoring at the end of the game. The free version of the app lets you have one Automa player, additional players are unlocked via the Premium upgrade. The settings sheet includes controls to: * Manage In-App Purchases in the ScytheKick Store * View an online user guide. * Adjust volume * Disable screen locking when Automa is in use * Choosing whether Automa are friendly to other Automa players for the Automa Helper solver. Choose if Active Airship Variant is used. Select the board size for the AR Board. * Skip calculated scores jumps over scoring screens that are automatically calculated or not used for the Automa (like popularity, or resources and structures). Smooth Popularity Track mode awards coins not just based on the three tiers on the Popularity Track, but interpolates linearly between each level and also counts odd numbers of resources. Scores at popularity 3, 9 and 15 score as normal, but scores higher and lower increase and decrease. For example, scores between popularity of 6 and 7 are closer with the setting mode on. ScytheKick is an unofficial companion to the board game Scythe, produced with permission of the game designer. Scythe is a trademark of Stonemaier LLC. Content and art is reproduced with permission. Special thanks to Jamey Stegmaier, Jakub Rozalski, Kai Starck, Ryan Lopez DeVinaspre, Morten Monrad Pederson, David Studley and Lines Hutter.
Good app for end game calculation
You need to have an instruction button showing me how to use this. At first I wasn’t able to quite figure it out so I only played with it so I could give you a review, asking you to add a function, but before I deleted the app and after giving you only two stars on my review I went back and played with it and figure it out that it is there. This will help me calculate the end of the game and that’s what I needed the most .
No calculator
New update gets rid of the SÇYTHE calculator that was complimentary. Low move. Not cool. Zero stars.
Unusable for calculating final scores
I used the old version of this app to calculate scythe scores but the new version makes this unusable, even after buying the app. The old version allowed you to just pick all of the parts of the score on one screen and calculate scores. The new version forces you to use it to pick your player/faction mats. It also makes entering the scoring very tedious by using a separate screen for each player and component. We prefer to randomly pick our player and faction mats physically. The app has no way to just enter the mats for each player, only providing a random picker. The most frustrating part is that the app used to be free and when I opened it it forced me to pay. “Well I like the app and want to support, so I’ll pay” I thought. After paying, I find the app is totally changed and is now unusable for simply scoring our games. I bought the base app and rise of fenris. And we ended up just using calculators instead. I hope the devs add back an option to make it quick and easy to calculate scores.
Updated review: great app, new update makes things a bit confusing
Update: the developer responded to my review and so I updated to clarify. The new update adds tons of great features but for someone like me who just used the app to calculate final score, that feature became much more complicated. I prefer to have a single page to input stats, territories, coins, etc... per faction instead of the app alternating between faction for each of these end game scoring factors. Hopefully that makes sense
New update ruined it for me
This used to be my go-to app for scythe scoring. That’s the only feature I used was calculating scoring and now I have to pay to score a game with more than 2 players? Super lame. That’s not how you update an app
Aside from some UX issues, it works well
I use it primarily for playing with four automas. I found it to have a fairly steep learning curve with regards to letting it determine the automa movements (easily solved - stopped using it for that). However, even when using it to just manage the decks, there just isn’t enough of an indication as to which automa you’re working with. With four automas and automa v automa combat, a better indicator than the star marker / slightly different faction icon at the top would be helpful (e.g., change the background color). I’ve used the wrong automa more than once and it’s something I’m always having to double-check. Finally, it would be nice if the user could mark automa earned stars (power and combat stars). In fact, it should be able to actually track the power amounts as it knows starting power, power gain, and combats.
No Invaders from Afar in the campain
I just bought every single IAP, but can’t even use the app because of this restriction. Thief!
Features in 5.0 * New look for ScytheKick! A start to end flow replaces the bottom tabs. Setup the Factions, Tiles and Modules, then proceed to the (optional) Automa match and then Scoring. Navigate with swipes or the left and right 'Character' buttons. * Faction setup now includes player names and summary screens for players and modules. * Modules from the Rise of Fenris can now be selected outside the campaign. * Automa now inclues page for each human player, an indicator of whose turn it is and a button to advance to the next player, making it easier to remember to update the map for human moves. * Automa now has full UNDO support if you need to backtrack. * Automa now supports the variant to skip cards as if playing at Autometta level * Scoring now proceeds by one category per screen and includes a full summary at the end which can be shared, including a badge for who is the winner. * In-app purchases now support Family Sharing.
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