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Year
2017
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Description
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In Sherman Leader, you command an American group of tanks, armored cars, trucks, half tracks, and infantry squads. You get to choose your campaign. Anything from 1942 North Africa to 1945 Berlin, and everything in between.
Sherman Leader is a great game for both experienced strategy gamers and well as new players. Each campaign takes only 30 minutes to set-up, and each battle can be resolved in 15 to 30 minutes.
Being a solitaire game, you can play whenever you have time, at your pace. This is very important. Sherman Leader is not a multiplayer game that has solo play rules tacked on. It was designed from the ground up to be a 1 player game.
Sherman Leader is the latest game in our "Leader" series. Previous games: Hornet Leader, Phantom Leader, Thunderbolt-Apache Leader, and U-Boat Leader. As a side note, you can divide up your forces and play co-op with a friend.
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Zilla Blitz Top List at 18:27 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Highly positive, with personal significance
Pros
- Spins a great narrative
- Characters (troops/soldiers) gain experience and level up
- High drama and tension
- Missions can go either way
- Fantastic wargaming experience
- Brought the host back into wargaming after a long hiatus
Cons
- More of a game than a simulation
Thematic elements
- Sherman tanks
- World War II
- Campaign/Mission-based
Comparison games
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- campaign system — I absolutely love the campaign campaign, the mission gameplay.
- Unit Progression — you care about your troops and your soldiers and you see them experience and get experience and level up
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Quotes (from this video)
- Access and Allies. So, uh, this is this game doesn't really need any introduction, but I've heard so many good things about it. I think it does meet a lot of the qualifications and criteria that we established as a war game and as an introductory war game for this list. Just haven't had time and made time to play it yet. I think it could have a very high spot on the list.
- David Thompson has been on the list a lot. He makes fantastically accessible war games. So, anything that he creates, I think is a candidate for this list.
- John Butterfield is a fantastic designer and this is a area control.
- John Butterfield designed some just amazing stuff.
- This is a game that might not fit into the classic war game category, but I've heard a number of war gamers say that it's definitely a war game with a lot of war game aspects and it fits probably in that subgenre of games, get the pun, where you are playing the role of a plane or a tank or a submarine or a ship and going over a campaign.
- War at Sea, if you're not familiar with it, it's an area based naval game that dates back to the 1970s, maybe 1980s.
- This is a game set in World War II where you take charge of female Russian pilots. This is based in actual history that run various aircraft missions over the German lines during World War II.
- Worthington does a great job with their production values with games.
- What games did I miss? What games on the list do you like and agree with?
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Zilla Blitz Top 10 List at 7:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- solid entry point into the Dan Verssen line
- varied scenarios and campaign depth
Cons
- rules can be a bit of a lift for absolute beginners
Thematic elements
- leader-based decisions and campaign flow
- World War II US ground campaign at the tactical/operational scale
- multi-week campaign with leaders and units
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- campaign framing with leaders — Scenario structure built around leadership roles and campaign progression
- moderate learning curve for an introductory title — Rules present a lift relative to the simplest intro games but accessible
- Tutorial — Rules present a lift relative to the simplest intro games but accessible
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Quotes (from this video)
- this is one of the finest introductory war games I've encountered
- solitaire games are great to play as introductory war games if you play them cooperatively with somebody else
- it's easy to learn, it's got great balance, it's fun to play, the design is elegant, the map is beautiful
- this game is 5th Century BCE; the Persian Empire is trying to take over the Greek city-states
- it's very beginner friendly, you can learn it really fast
- the range and the way the Machine Gun Works and lines of sight and things like that are handled very elegantly
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