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Year
2005
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Zilla Blitz Top List at 2:19 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Incorporates hidden information and attrition accounting simply and effectively through blocks.
- Lightweight card-driven element that adds to gameplay without being oppressive.
- Mechanics for castles, sieges, and battles influenced the designer's mental model.
- Cleaner and more accessible implementation of medieval operational dynamics than Levy Campaign.
Cons
- Has a reputation for favoring the Muslim side, requiring potential balancing adjustments.
Thematic elements
- Medieval warfare involving castles, sieges, and battles
- The Third Crusade
Comparison games
- Levian Campaign
- Paths of Glory
- Julia Caesar
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action cards — Incorporates cards that provide actions and determine initiative, described as 'card enhanced gameplay'.
- Block wargame — Uses wooden blocks with pips to represent units, incorporating hidden information and attrition accounting.
- Initiative determination — Cards also determine who has the initiative.
- muster — Muster is described as drawing a random block from face down blocks.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is just a monument to me, a monument to innovation.
- The reputation out there is that it's favors the Muslims.
- I read through the rules. I had to put it aside for about six months because I didn't it was so different at that time from from other.
- I think it's a serious war game. You know, it's a it's a heavy hex encounter game.
- It seems to always float to the top of a number of conversations.
- Very quickly your plan fails to survive contact with the enemy, right?
- Hard is that first step alone, you know, into the abyss.
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