Scenario Report: World War 1

[@_g7085]

Yeah, I'm going to have to get a copy of this one. Thanks for the video(s)!

[@CastleArchon]

No problem! Yeah worth grabbing. Hey look like a copy for only $10 on BGG! boardgamegeek.com/market/product/3379243

[@donj2222]

Turkey always adds CRPs at the end of the year to have 6 total unless they have more, which would only happen because Germany gave them some. Buigaria only has CRPs if Germany gives them some, which is the most common play.

[@captainnolan5062]

This is a great game. Thanks for spotlighting it!

[@CastleArchon]

@@captainnolan5062 totally underrated and out of the spotlight. Out of all the other games at SPI put into a box set. Although I have to admit the reason they probably didn't is because of lack of interest in the theme. Science fiction and fantasy will always sell better than history

[@captainnolan5062]

@@CastleArchon WW1 was fairly well received at the time it was published in 1975. I was an SPI subscriber at the time when the game came out, and I spent many hours playing it. I still have my original copy, and had it on the table about 10 months ago. It was nice to find this video. Per the internet: "Critics praised the game for its short playing time, resource management focus, and clever rules." Keep in mind that WWI was only 60 years in the past when the game was published in 1975, and there was renewed interest in WW1 at that time. Avalon Hill had come out with the game 1914 in 1968, and Vera Brittan's book "Testament of Youth" had been reprinted in 1970 as well.

[@CastleArchon]

@@captainnolan5062 Good history. I was an 80's gamers so I'm glad for your perspective.

[@captainnolan5062]

@@CastleArchon You bet. I worked in a bookstore in Washington State, and we carried SPI, GDW, and Gamma Two Games [later renamed Columbia Games] (as well as others). That is where I met Tom (though I doubt he remembers, as I was a teen back then) when he came into the shop, and have corresponded with [and finally met] Grant as well.

[@CastleArchon]

@@captainnolan5062 Yeah before Magic, the only place to get these weird and wonderful games were book stores.

[@donj2222]

I think to be able to use rail movement, you need to own the hex at the start or have occupied it.

[@donj2222]

I replied to a question about this on BGG.

[@donj2222]

The Free Deployment scenario allows the German to concerntrate against Russia and then they do not need to go thru Belgium, which means if the Allies want to attack move than the German/French border, they need to declare war on Belgium and go thru there.

[@CastleArchon]

I'm sure that changes things quite a bit.