Blood of Lions: The Somme

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dice rolling combat — The game involves attacking and making die rolls.

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• My top 10 game disappointments of all time.
• These were games that I was really looking forward to for one reason or another, and they just fell flat or they are just bad games.
• I like to talk about fun games, but uh I think it's important sometimes to recognize there are some games out there that are not that great or again just disappointing.
• This is a genuinely bad game.
• And I don't think I've spent a game or I spent as much time in the rule book while playing a game.
• if I got to work that hard to learn how to play a game already, you've lost me.
• And then when I played the game, like I say, for the amount of work we put into it, it just wasn't wasn't that much there.
• This is not only is this a disappointing game, this is probably for for for the kind of game it is, easily the worst game I've ever played.
• The game is unplayable. It's unplayable.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Card Play — Gameplay involves cards.
• Dice Rolling — Gameplay involves dice.
• Objective-based — Players aim to achieve objectives by moving forward and gaining command points.
• solo — Exclusively a solo game.

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Quotes (from this video)

• It's checking off a lot of boxes for me and that it's solitire, individual man, campaign, strong narrative elements, events.
• I love to see new games, new companies popping up and see newcomers into the field. It only helps us have more creativity, more innovation, and more people pushing the edge of the design envelope.
• This is a new and interesting direction for them.
• This is a lot of fun. I think it's going to spin great narratives.
• My understanding of World War I combat of course listening to him went up through the roof.
• And this game focuses on the reconnaissance at Verdon as the part of the combat.
• Warfare traditionally was a situation especially as you go farther back in time where you didn't have anywhere close to full information and getting that information and what you did with that information and analyzing that information and making decisions on incomplete information was such a huge part of warfare that really hasn't been captured in a lot of our modern wargaming experience.

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