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gaaloechild
This is a wargame: You maneuvre your units on a hex grid, one hex at a time, and try to take and hold some VP-rendering strongpoints, while your opponent tries to attack and hinder you and achieve the same goals before you do. It is not a combinatorial abstract game, since there is one, and only one, random element: To maneuvre a unit on the board, you need a corresponding coin and the coins are drawn at random from your bag. The coins have multiple usages, as maneuvering coins, as units on the board, and as neutral discards for other usages. The coins are "recruited" from your storage, cycle through your hand/discard/bag hand-cycle for a while, until you decide to deploy it to the game board. When your opponent eventually attacks your unit, its coins finally leave the game. A unit may disappear from the board, and later reappear when you deploy one of its coins. You have up to 4 on-board units, each consisting of 1-5 coins. Each unit occupies one hex on the board. There are 37 hexes on the map, and 10 of them are VP-rendering locations. You start with 2 VP locations under your control, and you win if you manage to simultaneously control 6. A logical way to play a game is to spread out from your 2 starting VP-point locations and grab the 3 VP spots within 2 hexes distance. You have to abandon at least one of your rear starting VP spots since you have maximum 4 units, but you keep control of a vacated VP location. Assuming your opponent has done the same, you now look for a weak spot in his front line of 3 occupied VP spots, maneuvre adjacent to it, attack the opponent's unit, make his unit coins be removed from the board, vacating the VP spot, move into it, take control of it and you have won! There are of course a lot of exceptions to this simplified description, and every unit has special abilities like chess pieces.
Flaming Spud
Only played once, but was totally thrilled with it. Played 2v2, and I'm anxious to try 1v1, but I suspect I'll prefer the team game. It's easy to learn, easy to read the board, and easy to cooperate with your team mate. Immediately falls into that "chess" like zone where you can see exactly what you need to accomplish in the game, but have no idea how you're going to get there with all of the opposition you face. I knew immediately what I did wrong when our team lost, and I want to play this again as soon as possible to try out my ideas.
battlecryoffreedom
Best Chess variant on the market. Logistics is a huge factor. Excellent simulation in risk management. Outstanding at teaching the value of avoiding high risk low reward decisions.