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"War is merely the continuation of policy by other means." —Carl von Clausewitz, On War, published 1832
Your goal in The March of Progress is to control countries through the playing of action cards so that you generate victory points (VPs) during scoring. Whoever has the most VPs at the end of the game wins.
In the game, each side has a hand of eight action cards, ranging from Move to Attack to Recruit. Each player simultaneously chooses one card to play each turn, then reveals and carries out the action. Cards stay discarded until a player plays their score card after which they regain all played cards.
The March of Progress includes an introductory scenario based on The Thirty Years War to set out the core rules of the game. The game includes four additional historical scenarios: The Age of Marlborough, Vive l’Empereur, World War 1 in the West, and World War 2 in the West. Each scenario changes the set-up and tweaks the rules to give a flavor of strategy in different time periods. The scenarios create a varied and challenging two-player game.
—description from designer
- Includes several scenarios reflecting various conflicts in different time periods.
- Conflict and control of countries
- Various time periods from the 30 Years War to World War 2
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Players compete to control countries.
- Card Play — Players compete to control countries through simultaneous play of action cards.
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Quotes (from this video)
- by my estimation there are 3.6 million games released each week which doesn't sound right now I say it out loud but there are a ton aboard card and tabletop games released each month so it's inevitable that some of them are going to slip the cracks like some kind of determined eel or greased baboon
- Chaz is created a mysterious an intricate programmatic formula which assigns each of these games an underdog score ranging from 1 to 100 while it is true that I don't fully understand chances formula I've seen it it's a lie and I think it might be sentient possibly evil
- MKULTRA was proven to be real and it's not just me thinking this TVs can see you all pigeons are Holograms now that's only imported because there's also this evil demon horse radishes only came into existence five years ago it's the mandala effect Apple computers are reverse engineered technology from a downed alien spaceship the Berenstein bears fun not today Internet
- Yes well done Chaz what a way to treat a classic cornerstone a modern board-gaming with the respect it deserves
- please I can't stress this enough never represent yourself in court ever