Game Info
Year
2015
Players
2-5
Age
12+
Playtime
75 min
Collection
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Description
A World War II deck building game where the Afrika Korps and British forces fight for Alexandria
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positive
Pros
- Same great artwork
- Familiar game mechanics
- New added twists
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- World War II
- Africa
- anime-styled
Comparison games
- Barbarossa
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Battle damage — Forfeiting or discarding specific amounts or types of units from deployed troops.
- Card Resolution — Revealing event cards equal to the city's garrison value and resolving red text.
- City conquest — Winning by matching or exceeding the city's defense value to conquer it.
- Counterattack — A new mechanic where the British will do a counterattack between players' turns.
- deck-building — El Alamein is a deck-building game.
- Interception — German units intercepting counterattacking forces. Italian infantry can intercept or make sets with box cards.
- Reinforcement pile — Sending event cards to the British reinforcement pile.
- Unit Abilities — Activating deployed units' abilities or cards from hand to affect reinforcements.
- Victory Points — Deploying victory cards equal to the conquered city's VP value.
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- If you like Barbarossa, check this one out currently on Kickstarter.
- Remember, if you like it, back it.
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