War on Terror

[Aeson]

Has anyone tried it?

War on Terror, the board game


I'm thinking of picking it up in the near future. I wanted to see if others have played and what they thought.

 

[Asmor]

I wouldn't normally give it a second thought. It looks like the kind of shallow, gimmicky roll-and-move game you'd find at Spencer Gifts.

That said, it's actually got some good reviews, and apparently against all odds there's an actual game there. Haven't tried it myself, though I'm curious to. There are some reviews on BGG.

 

[demonking1]

never played it, but it sounds fun.

 

[Phlebas]

the creators were at Gencon wandering around in orange jump suits (though one did run for cover when the griffin vulture in the falconry diplay buzzed him) and i had a quick chat with them about the rules and the game in general. although tempted i was loaded up with PF beta's, dice and loads of other goodies so resisted.

the game looks nice, in that the rules seem simple but you can get a lot of different ways to win. the fact that each square starts with random amount of oil means no game is ever the same twice. the war on terror bit is basically you can fund terrorists to attack your enemies, though the terrorists then become free agents so you can end up being attacked back yourself

the map had some nice touches. i particularly like the zones of antartica - "Nowhere", "Next to nowhere" etc.

with hindsight i wish i'd bought it as it would have been a great beer & pizza night

 

[newmath120]

your description doesn`t look atrctive...

may be you culd tell some more interesting stuff about the game if you really like it

 

[Lord Xtheth]

I've played this game. It's like Settlers of Catan meets Risk and mixed with Suck.
At least in my opinion.
4 turns into the game I was having absolutely no fun at all, having been attacked out of gaining any oil money whatsoever, as well as not "Officially" being the terrorists. The game lets you swich to being a terrorist whenever you want, but the official terrorist player (Determined by the random draw of a card, and wearing of a hat marked "EVIL") gets to collect your oil and spend your money at that point. So I swiched to being a Terrorist, and went to play X-Box.