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WWI-themed board game
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First pay and mutiny, then recruit #158

Closed 317070 closed 7 years ago

317070 commented 7 years ago

As per #152

Tantali commented 7 years ago

Yeah, was thinking the same. Still reviewing it though, so might change my vote.

317070 commented 7 years ago

As reference, the prepare-assault-reorganise phases come from the British army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_parlance#Tactics

I thought it made sense, and it is a nice reference.

nymanjens commented 7 years ago

Removing/changing the category names should be a different PR I'd think.

I don't agree. This PR introduces new names and we should thus discuss them here

As reference, the prepare-assault-reorganise phases come from the British army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_parlance#Tactics

I'm still not convinced, although I'm happy that there is a historical reference

nymanjens commented 7 years ago

Blood Rage has a special board (bottom left in this photo) that shows the game progress and what to do next. The current progress is indicated with a token.

We could do it like that too. We could group all simultaneous things and get the following global steps:

  1. Token assignment
  2. [Reveal and roll for start player]
  3. Invest and dig trench tokens
  4. Move tokens
  5. Production / Payment / Mutiny
  6. [Point scoring / advance turn counter / healing]
  7. Revival and train unis

Note: [foo] means that it is a quick step that needs no player input. This could get a different shape/color/... on such a game progress board.

These are 7 steps and I'd say they are easier to grasp than the 4 phases that feel quite arbitrary at this point.

WDYT?

317070 commented 7 years ago

I would move the healing into the revival/train.

  1. Point scoring and increase turn counter is all about that counter on the board
  2. is then all about the units and getting more healthy units.
nymanjens commented 7 years ago

They might fit slightly more together, but I think it's more important to bundle things that are fast to do because they require no decisions.

nymanjens commented 7 years ago

I implemented my suggestion and I'm now happy to have this merged (which I'm leaving to @317070 to allow him to disagree)