I lack the patience to watch a wargame on you tube. I am unwilling to commit to watching something for 30-60 minutes. I bemoan the fact that a lot more links to videos are popping up here on TMP.
That said, I opened this link and saw it was a nine-minute video and gave it a try.
First, the video was well edited, with the boring stuff pretty much cut out. Maybe ten minutes is the limit of my attention span, but they seemed to do a good job of showing what the game was about, the things it incorporated, and the way it worked in that time. I liked that they had organized before the game and showed it in the video: the potted plants could be thrown off the balcony, the cart could be pushed around, the flags could be used to climb up to the balcony. I liked the concept of panache.
The concept of the gaming board as a theatre set was interesting and new, at least to me. It certainly worked in this scenario, though I think I'd like to see it in a couple more scenarios.
The game reminded me of the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers. It had a lot of the atmosphere of The Three Musketeers or Cyrano de Bergerac.
Will I buy the rules when they come out, and a couple boxes of characters to play the game with? Maybe. At the very least, I'll be watching for more reports as they go about their play testing.
Grelber
