| 7th Va Cavalry | 09 Nov 2009 7:19 p.m. PST |
Anyone know of this board game, or know where I can obtain a copy of the rules? |
| Irish Marine | 09 Nov 2009 7:45 p.m. PST |
Great game played it a lot as a kid and young man back in the 80's. |
| Allen57 | 09 Nov 2009 7:47 p.m. PST |
I liked this game. You may be able to download a copy of the rules on Boardgame geek. |
| rusty musket | 09 Nov 2009 8:03 p.m. PST |
I think it was a version of Axis and Allies, but I may be confusing it with something else. |
| ajbartman | 09 Nov 2009 8:15 p.m. PST |
Similar to Axis and Allies. Great game, played a lot in college. US against the world. |
| DalyDR | 09 Nov 2009 8:20 p.m. PST |
Decent game. I've had it for years, and even played it a couple times over the past year. I think it's one of the better games in Milton Bradley's "Gamemaster" series, as it's not likely that one player will get knocked out and have to wait hours for the game to resolve, as can happen in Axis & Allies or Shogun. Dave |
Tgerritsen  | 09 Nov 2009 8:23 p.m. PST |
I still have my copy. It was a lot of fun, but the American player gets reinforcements via card draw, so you can tell almost within 3 turns just by what cards the American draws how the game will go. Bad cards equals US loss. Good cards, and it's almost impossible to stop the US. I haven't played in a long time. It's probably time to dust it off and play with my son. |
| Volstagg Vanir | 09 Nov 2009 9:06 p.m. PST |
Almost bought another copy at MilleniumCon this weekend:
I ended up buying a first edition copy of "Shogun"
{nee 'samurai swords'} from the same series, instead.
The rules are Here: link
boardgamegeek main entry:
link Interesting bit of trivia:
the first printing
(the one with Saddam on the cover)
regularly sells for +/- $200- … |
 Murphy  | 09 Nov 2009 9:18 p.m. PST |
Volstagg…200$ Really?!?! I have my Originals first printing copy sitting in my closet right now…Opened in 1988, looked at, played twice…All parts and pieces there… Hmm..maybe I should ebay this sucker…. |
| Rudysnelson | 09 Nov 2009 10:06 p.m. PST |
A 1980s game that came out after RedDawn was popular. Classic invasion from all sides. part of the MB series on a lot of similar packaged game . Shogun/Samurai Blades was another. Plastic pieces. First game that I remeber from MB that used dice other than only six sided. |
| Volstagg Vanir | 10 Nov 2009 12:58 a.m. PST |
RudyNelson->
That is exactly right: This Game-> "Fortress America" Murphy: Yes, really. All four of those Milton Bradley 'Gamesmaster' series Games:
-Shogun (later Samurai Swords)
-Fortress America
-Broadsides & Boarding Parties and of course
-Axis & Allies
were Wild successes, (from a design standpoint)
but only Axis & Allis remained 'in print'… Consequently, the first three command huge resale value,
easily starting on eBay at $100-.
-The 'Saddam' cover Fortress America,
-the 'Shogun' cover Samurai Swords
-and -any- edition of Broadsides & Boarding Parties
regularly go for $150-$250- Crazy, isn't it? |
| 7th Va Cavalry | 10 Nov 2009 4:46 a.m. PST |
Thanks very much gentlemen, I knew I could count on you! "Happy Birthday Marine Corps" |
 Parzival | 10 Nov 2009 7:02 a.m. PST |
By the way, rules for all of the Milton Bradley Gamemaster games are available as free pdf downloads from Hasbro at link |
 aegiscg47 | 10 Nov 2009 8:31 a.m. PST |
Great game along with SPI's Invasion America and Jagdpanther(?)'s Jacksonville: Beaches of Doom which is sort of a trilogy of "Let's invade America" games! |
| Hexxenhammer | 10 Nov 2009 8:47 a.m. PST |
Fortress America and Red Dawn…just shows that 80's American cold war paranoia had at least two positive outcomes. We played a lot of Fortress America when I was in about 6th grade. It was cool because it used d12's and the pieces were sweet. The helicopters and hovertanks especially. |
| Ivan DBA | 10 Nov 2009 8:50 a.m. PST |
Don't forget Conquest of the Empire, that was the Roman entry in the series. It's since been redone by Eagle Games I think. Shogun was the best, because it had random set-up, so better replay value. |
| Rudysnelson | 10 Nov 2009 10:14 a.m. PST |
Yes i remember at the Origins in Townson (sp?)College in about 1983-84? that the vendor at the booth behind me was selling the original first editions (all that they were) copies of Six Ceasars (later Conquest of the Empire), Axis and Allies and Broadsides and Boarding parties. These were the stadard paper board games. |
Monkey Hanger  | 10 Nov 2009 12:49 p.m. PST |
I got my copy off Ebay last year (Saddam cover) for £20…… Bargain for me it seems :-)
MH |
