At All Costs! The Great War in the East

Pros: Good rulebook. Low downtime and fast combat.

Cons: The map is extremely small compared to the size of the components. The green color is almost as dark as the black color which makes them very hard to differentiate on the map. I found the cards to be somewhat boring in what they do. The combat is as luck based as most non-CRT games in my opinion.

The game is mainly a hand management and maneuvering game, but I didn't find either of these mechanics to be any fun in this game as I disliked the combat and component design (especially the map and the color choice on the wooden tokens).

I think I could really like this game a lot of I printed a map that is twice as big, switched out the combat with a CRT to keep the swingyness down and also changed the color on the green wooden tokens.

Thank you, Crow

Very impressed by this game! I actually bought it on a spontanous whim but it has been my most positive new game experience of 2020. It is a very elegant design that packs a lot of history into a very simple ruleset that gives players a lot of interesting dilemmas during play.

I strongly recommend this to anyone with an interest in WW1 and/or eastern european history.

Now I hope they do a stand alone game using the same system for the Ottomans in WW1 (with a smaller unit scale to fit the topic)