Nuts! The Battle of the Bulge

[tgb]

The Decision Games card game has just been released by Hexwar. I really liked their previous adaptation of Infection, and hated Congo, but that was a problem with the design of the game, not the adaptation.

Anyway, I had to grab it, sucker for digital board and card games that I am.  The tutorial is just a bunch of non-interactive screen shots, but the full rules from the physical version are included.  So far I've only fooled around with it a little bit, so I'm not prepared to comment on AI (it's single player only and there don't seem to be difficulty levels), but it seems pretty solid.

[Nefaro]

HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found

:-\


Did they pull it?

Also.. was it another iPad-only release?  ::)

[amandachen]

They finally released it. $20 is a bit steep for me unless this is something special. Someone do a review soon.

[tgb]

HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found

:-\


Did they pull it?

Also.. was it another iPad-only release?  ::)

The link works for me.  And it's PC/Mac/iPad

[smittyohio]

The iPad release seems to have been a disaster... for some inexplicable reason, the game sells without the maps.   When you load it up, it has to connect and download them.   People who bought the iPad release are / were having issues with the downloads taking hours or getting 404 errors.

[tgb]

What maps are you referring to?  This is a card game played on a 6x6 (or 3x6) grid.

[bbmike]

I couldn't get that link to work either. Is this the game what you are talking about?

[tgb]

I couldn't get that link to work either. Is this the game what you are talking about?

Yes.  As you can see, there are no maps  :).  Try going to hexwar.com

I've been playing a bit and it seems a good game, although I'm not sure it's $20 worth of good. The AI appears competent, but the victory condition isn't very demanding (Germans have to get three armored units from the right hand side of the board to the left in 15 turns. Allies have to stop them. In a full campaign it's six units).

Right now I think I may have found a major bug, but I could also be misinterpreting one of the rules. I'm waiting for a response from the developers.

[smittyohio]

What maps are you referring to?  This is a card game played on a 6x6 (or 3x6) grid.

Oops... Sorry, it was the Martin Wallace game called Steam that had the 404 map download problem...  I was looking at both of those last night and got confused.  I was thinking maybe they were downloading skins or something for the background.

[MengJiao]

What maps are you referring to?  This is a card game played on a 6x6 (or 3x6) grid.

  I had a kind of Battle of the Bulge Nuts! scenario going in the Grand Tactical World a while ago.  I had the artillery commander of the
101st (the guy who sent the Nuts! message), attempting to defend Bir Hakeim with captured Italian equipment and a handful of Stuarts.

  The Germans had stuarts too (which they did apparently at Bir Hakeim historically).  Surrender never even came up.  Well in fact there was no
Question of Surrender.  So the Nuts! card never had to be played.

[tgb]

The good news is that the bug I thought I had found was just me mis-interpreting what I was seeing.

I just played my first full game and lost to the AI on Day Six.  So I guess that's a good sign, although part of the reason I lost is (again) my mis-interpretation of the rules.  Also, as noted earlier, the AI doesn't have to be Watson to play competently.

[Nefaro]

My nuts are also participating in the battle of the bulge.

[Barthheart]

My nuts are also participating in the battle of the bulge.

:o

[Nefaro]

Someone had to say it.

[Barthheart]

Way to step up to the plate.  O0