Quartermaster General: 1914

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2016

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Description

Quartermaster General: 1914 is the next title in the critically acclaimed Quartermaster General series by Ian Brody and creates a narrative of the First World War in Europe, reflecting the military, technological, and social changes that occurred over the following four years.

In Quartermaster General: 1914, each card has two different uses: one when played, and another when prepared. On your turn, you have the opportunity to both play and prepare a card. You can also spend cards to draft more troops, or use cards to attrition your opponents. However, your deck represents your overall resources, so moving too quickly through your deck early might result in your unsupported armies being swept away in the final rounds of the game. This is worth it if you can capture Berlin or Paris in 1915, but if your gambit fails, you may have a tough road ahead.

The game ends after 17 rounds of play, or earlier if one side has a commanding lead.

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positive

Pros

The flow of the game felt much more realistic as far as a simulation of World War.
The 'prepare' mechanic with symbols on cards for defense or logistics is a simple, beautiful way to represent building up for future actions.
The game offers tough decision-making due to playing only one card per turn.
It's a great design that offers a unique subgame of anticipating opponent's moves.

Cons

The original World War II version 'went off the rails a little bit historically' with planes flying around where they didn't belong.
The original World War II version had a small map which made it feel cramped.

Thematic elements

World War I

Comparison games

Quartermaster General (World War II version)

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

Area Control — Players generate into spaces and create armies in empty spaces on a map.
Card Play — Uses cards for actions and also for 'preparing' face-down elements that represent defense or logistics.
Symbol management — Cards have symbols that represent different actions or states, which are used in a subgame of preparation.

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The worst thing a designer can do is pigeonhole themselves into a particular uh era or uh scale of game or complexity of game.
The the game that was most rewarding to me uh as as a labor of love let's let's say is at any cost which was published by GMT 8 years ago? Something like that. 6 years ago. So, that was Metz 1870.
You cannot get a better compliment than that.
As soon as you roll the first die, you're you're in fantasy, right? I mean, or make first move that somebody else didn't make. You're you're you're creating your own battle, right?
It's like, 'Oh, this is so much easier to learn than I thought by looking at the rulebook.' So, it's There's an elegance of play and an ease of learning there that I think is deceptively straightforward.
For years, the best thing a wargame designer can do is go play go play Descent, or go play Summoner Wars, or go play uh uh Sword & Sorcery. Go play another type of game where all of a sudden things will start clicking going, 'That's a cool way to do combat, or that's a cool way to do supply, or that's a cool way to do activation. Maybe I'll use that in a wargame, right?'
So I would have bunch of guys around the table with our with our beers and our cigars and I would teach them how to play wargames and they each had their own little section to to deal with. So it was not overwhelming, right?
The power of our hobby, right? Is this idea that we can create these powerful memories that you know, fun is such a blended word, but I think it applies. It's just you you just have great memories that bring out a lot of fun, you know.

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