Combat Commander: Vietnam

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Driven Game (CDG) — Part of the Combat Commander series, which is card-driven.
• Tactical combat simulation — Focuses on tactical combat during the Vietnam War.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Oh my God this sounds fantastic
• don't get killed oh my God I am all in
• Jeremy's coming up with some wicked cool ideas ain't he
• this is a wicked way that the coin system is being stretched
• this is really really pretty clever
• Man I love the themes that we're going with
• this is the game that's putting NB on the map
• super super into that game
• this is not really my jam
• dude has an encyclopedic amount of knowledge when it comes to designing War Games marks one of the Titans

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Combat — dropped napon napal on a hill

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• It's really exciting to me. It's a card-driven racing game that's just incredibly fast-paced.
• Ark Nova is a really complex game.
• The Great Western Trail is a big euro-style game.
• Pax Pamir is a political game.
• Cascadia is an incredibly relaxing game.
• Terraforming Mars is still a great game.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Campaign play — Features a dynamic campaign where scenario outcomes influence subsequent games.
• Card Play — Part of the Combat Commander series, which is known for its card-driven mechanics.
• scenario play — Playable through various scenarios.

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Quotes (from this video)

• It's checking off a lot of boxes for me and that it's solitire, individual man, campaign, strong narrative elements, events.
• I love to see new games, new companies popping up and see newcomers into the field. It only helps us have more creativity, more innovation, and more people pushing the edge of the design envelope.
• This is a new and interesting direction for them.
• This is a lot of fun. I think it's going to spin great narratives.
• My understanding of World War I combat of course listening to him went up through the roof.
• And this game focuses on the reconnaissance at Verdon as the part of the combat.
• Warfare traditionally was a situation especially as you go farther back in time where you didn't have anywhere close to full information and getting that information and what you did with that information and analyzing that information and making decisions on incomplete information was such a huge part of warfare that really hasn't been captured in a lot of our modern wargaming experience.

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