Does anyone have any experience with Unity?

[Berkut]

I want to try my hand at using Unity to just make some simple 2D board/wargames. Does anyone have any experience with using that toolset, who could give me a quick start? Most of the tutorials and such out there are all about how to make some 3D game, so immediately are not really applicable to what I want to do, which I would guess would be relatively simple....

[bogh]

I have been thinking about getting into Unity as well, similar line of thinking and similar results so far on the tutorials etc. I think Unity should be fine for it, but it seems very physics / 3D focused.

I played around with https://github.com/nicolodavis/boardgame.io at some point, which is pretty neat and accessible (I am a JavaScript guy).

[Syt]

If you're not planning to use high end 3D graphics, maybe a more user friendly 2D engine might do the trick for now? But Unity is surely among the most powerful ones once you've mastered it.