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Quartermaster General is a fast-paced game that puts you in command of the major powers of the Second World War. In the game, supply is crucial to keep your armies and navies fighting; destroy your enemies' supply lines and their forces will surrender!
During play, you control one or more countries on either the Axis or Allied team and try to score as many victory points (VPs) for your team as you can through the use of cards or by occupying the starred supply spaces. Each major power has a unique set of cards with which to marshal its forces, which are represented by wooden army and navy pieces. After twenty rounds of play, the team with the most VPs wins.
Note: The French edition of Quartermaster General, known as Quartermaster, includes the Quartermaster General: Air Marshal expansion that is sold separately in the English edition.
Year Published
2014
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top_10_list at 17:58 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fast, accessible, and highly collaborative
- Demands teamwork and shared planning
- Ideal light game for six players
Cons
- Some may view it as light for war-game enthusiasts
- The card-driven design may feel simplistic to heavy-war gamers
Thematic elements
- Allied vs Axis cooperation with a focus on teamwork and strategic timing
- World War II global conflict depicted on a tactical map
- Tense, efficient, and team-centric
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card-driven turns — Each turn you play a single card from a limited hand to perform an action
- team-based strategy — Players collaborate to thwart the enemy's plans and execute joint actions
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- Archipelago is messy. It's just not a design anyone on Board Game Geek is going to call eloquent.
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positive
Pros
- strong team coordination in a compact package
- works well with five players
Cons
- potential complexity for new players
- subject to balance nuances depending on card mix
Thematic elements
- coordinated large-scale action under time pressure
- World War I/WWII-era wargame setting reimagined as a cooperative card-driven conflict
- abstract, thematic-war abstraction
Comparison games
- Firefly: Deck-Building Game
- My Little Pony Deck-Building Game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card-driven teamwork — players collaborate with shared goal cards to coordinate actions
- cooperative/competitive tension — team objectives with individual pressure to perform
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is raw literally
- the whole concept of this show was like hey why don't we just turn on mics
- one reason why that game excels so well is because of the Solitaire nature and it works with any player count
- Quartermaster General is really good with five
- we were asked the Gen Con... Connor from Inside Up Games looked at me and goes what topic would get you excited
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