"Pub Battles: Little Bighorn -Custer's Last Stand" Topic
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| Tango01 | 17 Oct 2016 3:53 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 17 Oct 2016 4:01 p.m. PST |
"General George Armstrong Custer is a name that most people who went to school in the US will recognize. He's known for Custer's Last Stand, an attack against the Sioux Indian tribes that didn't go well for the 7th Cavalry. The charge that they thought was against a small band turned out to be an assault on the middle portion of a much larger force. In Pub Battles: Little Bighorn, you can recreate those events in miniature on the tabletop and possibly change the results, depending on your choices during the game. In the game, one player takes on the role of the 7th cavalry while the other plays the head of the Sioux forces. However, both sides armies aren't entirely set at the start of combat. They are picked in secret and only revealed once contact has been made. So, why not always go with the biggest force you can possibly field? Because the win conditions change depending on what you choose to take into the battle. The less you take, the easier your win conditions. So you'll have to balance between having simple and relatively easy-to-meet win conditions versus having more forces on your side to command…"
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| Mithmee | 17 Oct 2016 6:13 p.m. PST |
The key would have been to suck the Indians to attack a smaller party around 100-150 cavalry which leads them back to where the remaining nearly 500 Cavalry have prepared a defensive position. Major win for Custer. But that did not happen and he split his forces and ran into around a force of Indians around 5-6 times larger and better armed, many Indians had repeating rifles while the US Cavalry only had single shot carbines that were prone to ram at the worst possible moment. |
| dddd99 | 17 Oct 2016 7:28 p.m. PST |
Looks pretty interesting. I like the idea of the mechanic where your win conditions change based on what you bring to the battle. I wonder how to best pull that off since it seems like it'd be easy to screw up, but definitely intriguing. |
| Tango01 | 18 Oct 2016 10:06 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend!. (smile)
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| Allen57 | 19 Oct 2016 10:23 a.m. PST |
I do not back kickstarters but this one definitely interests me. Will have to rethink my anti-kickstarter bias. |
| Tango01 | 19 Oct 2016 10:26 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it too my friend!. (smile)
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| JimSelzer | 19 Oct 2016 1:31 p.m. PST |
He should have taken his Gatling guns |
| Part time gamer | 14 Nov 2016 1:09 a.m. PST |
Interesting topic and not complaining.. BUT how did this wind up on SCI-FI list? |
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