Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome! is a very interesting historical scenario-based cooperative game about the Dutch Resistance during the World War II. The game has five very different highly replayable scenarios, which are not directly connected to each other but focus on different aspects of the resistance and their work in the Netherlands to resist the Nazi occupation. Each scenario has its own goals, special rules, cards, and other elements. The games uses a combination of different mechanics including pick-up and deliver and resource management. The pick-up and deliver aspect includes the players having to guide various refugees to safe houses where they can leave the city, deliver important messages or information, spreading the word to the other resistance cells through delivering coded newspapers and a host of other types of interesting tasks. Resource management sees the players having to collect various supplies, such as rations, key pieces of information, documents and money, and them taking these to specific locations to meet the costs of various tasks. This combination creates a very puzzly feel to the game and requires that players work together to be as efficient as possible when doing these tasks as the clock is ticking and they do not have unlimited time and actions to succeed.

Each player controls a different character that is based on a real resistance fighter. These ten different characters have their own deck of three unique Character Cards, based on what this person did during the war. Each of them provides different utility and some characters are better then others in certain scenarios.

Our favorite part of the game was the Halt Cards, which are drawn when the players have to cross the paths of police and soldiers who are patrolling the streets. These Halt Cards will tell a narrative about a very interesting and difficult situation and the players will have 2 choices. Once the choice is made, there will be consequences which are sometimes good and sometimes bad (more bad than good). This game is a very interesting experience and I very much look forward to playing more of this game in the near future.

If you are interested in Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome! Reprint and Expansion, you can back the project at the Kickstarter page at the following link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/orange-shall-overcom/dutch-resistance-expansion-and-reprint?ref=73naoz

-Grant