Barbarossa

Game Demo
Dates: 
Saturday, February 13, 2016 - 12:00 to 14:00
Volunteers: 
Bryce Ann Journey
Description: 

Come learn this deck-building game for 2-5 players.

Game description:
Barbarossa is set in a fictional Second World War setting in which cute German military girls rush against Moscow to defeat the evil magician Stalin.

The game uses the in-game deck-building mechanism from Dominion – that is, each player starts with a small deck of resource cards and during the course of the game one buys cards from an open card pool to build a deck of cards to play with. Goal of the game is to conquer Moscow. If Moscow falls the player with the most victory points wins. Victory points are acquired by conquering different cities and/or strategical positions during the game. Every time you attack a city, event cards from an event deck are drawn (e.g. General "Winter"). Barbarossa uses six different kinds of cards:
•Supply Cards: These provide points to buy other cards from the open card pool.
•Unit Cards: The use of these cards require "Operation Points" (Each turn you start with one Operation Point) and deliver the military strength to attack cities or strategic positions (or in other words gain victory point cards).
•Operation Cards: They give you a one time bonus in different forms. After use they are not just discarded but put out of play.
•Deploy Cards: They stay in the players play area and deliver bonuses in different forms every turn.
•Target Cards: The cities and strategic positions which deliver VPs, also if you conquered strategic positions it becomes easier to attack cities.
•Event Cards: If you attack the Target cards an event is drawn and stuff happens.

Like all of Arclight's deck construction games, the illustrations are provided by famous Japanese fanzine artists.

Integrates with
•El Alamein

Comments

Bryce Ann Journey's picture

Last year I demoed Tanto Cuore during the Valentine's Day weekend, which was totally inappropriate and lots of fun. This year, I'll be showcasing the even more inappropriate and outrageous Barbarossa. Imagine an alternate history in which the German army of World War II is entirely populated by scantily-clad anime girls, wrap up the war game theme and objectives in deck-building mechanics, and you have one of the weirdest marriages of theme and mechanics in the entire board game pantheon. It's truly one of the highlights of board gaming oddities. But it is also a very controversial game, so I encourage anyone interested in the demo to do a little research about the game at boardgamegeek.com and make sure it's actually something they can get into. Due to the nature of the theme and illustrations, this demo will be Adults Only.