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2022
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Description
Take command of the Confederate army at the battle of Gettysburg in an original bookgame by Worthington Publishing. Refight the bloody 1st and 2nd of July as you try to break the Union defenses at Cemetery Hill, Culps Hill, and Little Round Top.
You receive 12 battle plays for July 1st and 12 battlesfor July 2nd. July 1 is the easier of the two days as you try to crush the I and XI corps and drive the Union army from Gettysburg. July 2, the battle gets tougher as you have to fight through Devil’s Den and Little Round Top, and the Union reserves coming from Culps Hill.
All you need to provide is a die, a pen, and a sense of adventure to play.
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The Discriminating Gamer Review at 0:16 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Really fun interactive game.
- Not hard to learn, not hard to play.
- Plays in 20-30 minutes.
- Tells great stories of the battle.
- Fun to see the story play out in a short amount of time.
- A lot of important choices to make.
- A lot to like and love.
Cons
- Would have preferred wooden blocks over cardboard counters.
- Game board has Confederate unit names facing the player and Union names facing away, which is inconvenient for a solitaire game.
- Would have liked the option to play as the Union.
Thematic elements
- Civil War battle simulation
- Gettysburg on day one and day two of the battle
Comparison games
- Gettysburg Solitaire (book war game)
- Sync the Bismark
- Waterloo Solitaire
- Waterloo game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Coordinated Attack — A special action allowing two adjacent generals to coordinate an attack with an advantage.
- Counter Activation — Activating one commander per turn, with restrictions on activating the same general twice in a row.
- Dice Rolling — Rolling dice and consulting a chart to determine combat outcomes.
- Event/Bot Resolution — Rolling for and resolving the Union bot's actions before making an attack.
- Objective Completion — Winning the game by destroying enemy formations before they destroy yours, based on day-specific objectives.
- Target Selection — Selecting targets for attacks from a couple of options on the board.
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Quotes (from this video)
- If ever you run out of counters for a specific general, you can bring in Lee or Long Street and you can use them to activate those specific generals.
- It's very luck heavy. I mean obviously the die rolls are all over the place and so there's a lot of luck but it's fun to see within that short amount of time that story play out.
- If this game were over an hour if I was playing a game like this and it was an hour, hour and a half or something I probably wouldn't like it. I think it was too luck heavy. But where it's only about 20 to 30 minutes it's really a lot of fun.
- And that's one of the things I didn't like about the book the book game and this version of the game.
- Where it is a solitary game, I think all of the names should be facing you. It's just easier.
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The Discriminating Gamer Top List at 1:56 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- The Civil War where you're the Confederates trying to attack the Union lines on day one and day two of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Solitaire war game
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Quotes (from this video)
- Manila: The Savage Streets 1945. This is kind of a sister game to Stalingrad.
- I thought the Manila game was just a little smoother, a little sweeter. Um and it just worked a lot better.
- Pavlov's House is such a great solitaire war game.
- It was part of a well orchestrated plan to keep them there. And they were well supported by AA guns and communications and supplies.
- Castle Itter is kind of one of the weirdest battles of the war.
- And the game is super intense.
- When I think of a good solitaire war game that I could just pick up and and play with with with minimal difficulty and really invest in it, this is it.
- Vae Victis Emperor by Blue Panther. This is, of course, the Battle of Waterloo.
- he just did such a great great job of abstracting the the basics of the battle, but making them come alive in such a fun way.
- This one is so much fun. It is a great great solitaire war game.
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