It's great always having 4 cards you can't use, and watching the inevitable green march from the left side of the screen, or orange march from the right, because nothing you ever get can counter the oncoming onslaught, and you never have enough satellites or planes (occasionally you've got 20+ troops but it never matters), and the little speed bumps are always inactive so you can never play anything important (or even make progress on that side of the board). My favorite part is when you get a +Thumb card and the square leading to the rest of the thumbs doesn't increment so you can never use any of them after the first time you're out, and you just have to die regardless. Fun games are the ones where you are forced to lose and have no way to fight back! (An excerpt from the instruction manual this guy used to make this game, probably...) At least the Weimar version of this was halfway winnable. Going to try the Japan one now, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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It's great always having 4 cards you can't use, and watching the inevitable green march from the left side of the screen, or orange march from the right, because nothing you ever get can counter the oncoming onslaught, and you never have enough satellites or planes (occasionally you've got 20+ troops but it never matters), and the little speed bumps are always inactive so you can never play anything important (or even make progress on that side of the board). My favorite part is when you get a +Thumb card and the square leading to the rest of the thumbs doesn't increment so you can never use any of them after the first time you're out, and you just have to die regardless. Fun games are the ones where you are forced to lose and have no way to fight back! (An excerpt from the instruction manual this guy used to make this game, probably...) At least the Weimar version of this was halfway winnable. Going to try the Japan one now, but I'm not getting my hopes up.
This game is really interesting, because the hostile squares are backed by actual factions or demographics.
The other ones usually do not have that mechanic.