Golem Arcana crushes mobile and tabletop gaming together into a fantastic hybrid (review)

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I never fall prey to microtransactions. I rarely spend money on tacked-on downloadable content that usually disappoints. Yet Golem Arcana, the new two-player tabletop-miniatures war game/mobile app hybrid from developer Harebrained Schemes (HBS), threatens to empty my wallet like nothing has before. It takes all the fun parts of physical miniatures war gaming — like varied armies and unit types, collectible expansions to add both size and depth to your ranks, and a plethora of scenarios and customization options — and adds video game technology to streamline the experience and remove most of the tediousness.