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Fortress America - with an unexpected ending!

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The Hilltop Pillbox

The Hilltop Pillbox

Күн бұрын

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@CBs_Bill_from_Montana
@CBs_Bill_from_Montana Жыл бұрын
I love the Minneapolis and airlift cards. I forgot about them. Thanks for the creative editing too!
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! So much of this game is in the timing. I really thought the US might pull it off when they got those handy partisan cards to block off Buffalo and retake Seattle. But, too little, too late. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@RetroMaticGamer
@RetroMaticGamer 4 ай бұрын
3:48 That's not right. The Partisans get 6-sided dice both on attack and defense unless they're alone - a single, lone Partisan unit then gets a d8 whether attacking or defending.
@superilikeeggsyo
@superilikeeggsyo Жыл бұрын
Fortress America is a unique gem to be sure. I have the ugly 2012 release but this MB edition looks great. Can't go wrong with a similar visual aesthetic to A&A Classic.
@cadjebushey6524
@cadjebushey6524 Жыл бұрын
I got the 2012 game as a chdistmas gift in 2012. Why is it so hated?
@superilikeeggsyo
@superilikeeggsyo Жыл бұрын
@@cadjebushey6524 "Hated" might be a bit harsh. The OG release and the 2012 release are more-or-less identical but IMO the art style of the 2012 one doesn't stack up to the OG. You might have different taste than I do though.
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
Yes, there is something to those "classic" lines and colours. I think there is definitely a tie-in with the original Red Dawn film, which was magnitudes better than the remake.
@cadjebushey6524
@cadjebushey6524 Жыл бұрын
@@superilikeeggsyo I personally like how they tried making the 2012 version look more like a map out of an actual war room. If you look at the edges you can see bullet casings and a compass. Alot of games on the pre-20th century like Napoleon or the American civil war try and make their maps look like old period maps with this brownish aging decor on them.
@cadjebushey6524
@cadjebushey6524 Жыл бұрын
@@TheHilltopPillbox The invaders get optional card decks in the 2012 FFG edition, and one of the Euro players cards is literally called Red dawn. I cant remember what the card did but I think hovertanks are involved.
@blitzkrieg4689
@blitzkrieg4689 Жыл бұрын
Awesome i just recently got a unplayed copy of the game out of someones old storage peices still on the sprue this game is so much fun!
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
Whoa - still on sprue? That's a rare find - congrats! I hope you have many hours of fun!
@blitzkrieg4689
@blitzkrieg4689 Жыл бұрын
@@TheHilltopPillbox its already a huge hit with the lads tho i did feel awful taking the pieces of the sprues but games are ment to be played not displayed.
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
@@blitzkrieg4689 100% agree. It's like guys who buy nice cars but only wax and polish them. What's the point?
@kenhill5214
@kenhill5214 9 ай бұрын
Is the Minneapolis card you keep talking about putting the combines in the combined arms card?
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox 9 ай бұрын
Nah, it's simply a card that places two bombers and two helicopters in Minneapolis. A nice treat! Thanks for watching and commenting!
@hapexamendar1093
@hapexamendar1093 6 ай бұрын
We have about 75ish games too! The strategy has evolved through many streaks from each side. In the end very very close. If America gets too many screws with the cards or just the wrong ones, they will lose. If the invaders give away too many extra cards they lose. The new version helps the invaders a lot. Only played it once, but the cards were too much giving back bombers, negating lasers and such. Balanced seemingly unless you use those new cards. You don't use helicopters to their full advantage. You must use their special move to dominate with the invaders.
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox 6 ай бұрын
Yeah, helicopters tend to get clobbered if I put them out there too far...lasers or just lucky attacks. I feel as though I really need the choppers in the late game, as they can hop over and take out lasers, and if I'm lucky enough to take the city in between, it usually spells doom for the USA!
@CaptainG9318
@CaptainG9318 Жыл бұрын
Great Red Dawn clips! Fun to watch.
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
One of my favourite movies from my teen years, for sure!
@warhammer9482
@warhammer9482 Жыл бұрын
Ty for posting this. Never seen this game before. Washington didn't fall because are politicians where on the soviets side lol
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
That could be true, Comrade!
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822 6 ай бұрын
Sould have kept playing till total victory and see what happend
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox 6 ай бұрын
Yeah, I wish I had time to completely finish these games...maybe when I retire!
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822 6 ай бұрын
@@TheHilltopPillbox yeah or a day off
@samt9387
@samt9387 Жыл бұрын
Great vid 👍. I wish I could play a polished digital version of this with other fans. All of the Gamemaster series games in one purchase would be amazing.
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
Thank you, and I agree about the digital version. I am sure someone is working on it right now!
@TokraOperative
@TokraOperative 6 ай бұрын
Euro-Socialist Pact invasion zone actually reminds me of my alternate history project Georgia Mix-Up which depicts the Russian Federation invading the U.S. State of Georgia by mistake in 2008 and expanding their invasion zone throughout the Southeast from Dover to Miami.
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox 6 ай бұрын
Sounds interesting! Is it a shareable file?
@oblivionpb7952
@oblivionpb7952 Жыл бұрын
Would love to see you play more of this
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
I'll see what I can do!
@cadjebushey6524
@cadjebushey6524 Жыл бұрын
I got the Fantasy flight games version as a Christmas gift in 2012 but didn't get the original Red dawn til 2018. For whatever reason, it doesn't seem to be populwr with OG FA players. Possibly the only complaint I got aesthetic-wise is how dark the cover art is. With the sky darkened with smoke, (or maybe its nightime) its kinda hard to distinguishe stuff.
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
It is interesting how important the presentation of a game is. Sometimes I won't even try a game because of the art work!
@cadjebushey6524
@cadjebushey6524 Жыл бұрын
Is it possible to create a "modern warfare" variant of Acis and allies using FA pices and the A&A board?
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
Check out "Amerika" from HBG. It is a perfect combination of FA and modern warfare! I did a solo play of it on my channel, but haven't been back. It is a good game, just too many others! www.historicalboardgaming.com/HBG-Amerika-Boxed-Game-_p_10764.html
@cadjebushey6524
@cadjebushey6524 Жыл бұрын
@@TheHilltopPillbox Isn't Amerika set in ww2, and isn't FA already Modern warfare? Of course, I guess we cant exactly call the mid 80s "modern" anymore.
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
@@cadjebushey6524 You are correct, but with the "modern-ish" weaponry, I kind of feel like it's more late 20th than WWII. Just my take on it, I guess. I have another card game called "Modern Naval Battles" which is a LOT of fun, but it is set in the Cold War.
@cadjebushey6524
@cadjebushey6524 Жыл бұрын
@@TheHilltopPillbox I think HBG has a trailer for it and its supposed to take place in the summer of 1946. The Germans have HO-IX flying wings, and the RAF and USAAF have P-80s and Meteor jets. Those obviously would likely be obsolete by the 60s or 70s. The Wolfenstein games, New order and new colossus take place in an alternate 1960 where Germany won ww2 with advanced technology. Although the explaination on how they aquired it and the tech they have is a bit nuts. One of their most feared weapons is the Panzerhund, literally a giant robotic wolf or something. And thry also have military bases on the moon. And Venus believe it or not. In 1960. There are newspaper clippings you can find in the game detailing the events of the years after ww2 in 1946 up until 1960. One is about Stalin going into hiding after Moscow falls, another is on an advanced U-boat fleet crushing the USN in Leyte gulf, and another is on the Canadian prime minister adressing an invasion of Quebec by the Germans after they dropped atom bombs on new york and Boston in 48. "Now is the time to be brave." Their great games if your into alternative history, but the tone and atmosphere can get intense at times. Lets just say it earned its M for mature rating. But the good news is Colossus ends with the beginning of the 2nd American revolution against German occupation. "If we can free the U.S, we can use it as a springboard to liberate the rest of the world."
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822 6 ай бұрын
They should make amodern day civil war game useing this sustem
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox 6 ай бұрын
Could be interesting!
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822 6 ай бұрын
@@TheHilltopPillbox yeah
@cadjebushey6524
@cadjebushey6524 Жыл бұрын
I also heard some conplain about the 2012 game being unbalanced in Americas favour, but I finished a game yesterday with invader victory at turn 5. The rules are slightly altered so certain strategies might not apply. I think an overall strategy for the invaders is to strike fast and hard. Blitzkrieg the Americans before they can get organised and stiffen their defences. As for the Americans, you need to pick your battles very carefully, especially if your potential attacking forces are coming from a defended city. Pick a weak spot with more light units. ( infantry, APCs) Partisan cards that destroy units and laser strikes can help and I often launch laser attacks to soften up adjacent territories in preparation for an attack. Try to keep a sizable group of heavy units together in case you draw the major airlift card. Send them behind enemy lines to attack a weakly defended city and sever supply lines. You can potentially capture several if some cities are adjacent to one another. In mix-ups of infantry and Partisans, I usually kill American infantry first to keep the harder-hitting partisans. They get buffed if their alone. If defenders have several air units, I might think twice before sending in bombers, especially as the invaders. Speaking of bombers, I like to think of them also representing jet fighters if a bomber kills another or a helicopter. An APC or tank might be an mobile AA variant and infantry killing air is obviously Stinger missles.
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
All good thoughts! Yes, lasers have typically been used to soften up a potential battle zone, and the limit of one per territory is a good rule, or else...ZAP!
@skymarshal6787
@skymarshal6787 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for finally doing this game …love it ….my next request is shogun …since that name is now canceled 😂I mean samurai swords
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
Konichiwa! It will always be Shogun to me. There is nothing wrong with the name, as it simply meant the supreme military commander of Japan during their feudal wars. I wish I could play a solo game of that, but it is pretty much impossible to do, since the budgeting is done in secret, and that darn Ninja... :)
@CaptainG9318
@CaptainG9318 Жыл бұрын
So as the US, do you focus your forces to fully deplete one of the three attackers, or balance to be able to take advantage of opportunities as they come up?
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
Well, in this game, I sent everything forward, hoping that the enemy would be exhausted, but those failed attacks on Washington really set the stage for defeat. Sometimes, I put stronger units on the front lines, and leave infantry in the interior, hoping to whittle down their "good units". I had a mix this game, but I think I was a bit too bold with the US, and let the Asian Peoples Alliance off the hook. Cost the US the game! All in all, it's very much an opportunistic game. If there is a weak spot, hit it. To make the invaders turn around, even for a round, can make the difference.
@chibimonikad
@chibimonikad Жыл бұрын
What an interesting game
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
Lots of variables, and those stupid dice...ugh. But, it is fun!
@chibimonikad
@chibimonikad Жыл бұрын
@@TheHilltopPillbox man I feel you on the dice, recently played a game of A&A 1940 2nd edition and watched the Allies get diced hard every round
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
@@chibimonikad Oh, that must have been a massive Axis win...it's hard enough already to win as the Allies on the OOB G40!
@chibimonikad
@chibimonikad Жыл бұрын
@@TheHilltopPillbox it was just domination, ended by round 6
@TheHilltopPillbox
@TheHilltopPillbox Жыл бұрын
@@chibimonikad Well, at lease you didn't waste too much time, eh? 🙃
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822
@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822 6 ай бұрын
I have the reisue version
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