Wow! We finally did it. We finally called it a day. If you didn’t know, we’ve spent the past few months trying to play all of our WWI games. We did not get it accomplished and I even bought like four more throughout the course of the event! So, here we are at the end of this event, and we wanted to wrap it up with a brief overview of all the games we played, and our thoughts on this mammoth endeavour.
For your ease of use, I have listed all the games we played in the order that we discuss them – which is from simplest to most complex (generally speaking):
- Soviet Dawn – Worthington Games
- An Attrition of Souls – Compass Games
- The Great War – PSC Games
- Mons 1914 – Conflict Simulations Limited
- Empire At Sunrise – Hollandspiele
- At All Costs – Hollandspiele
- The Lamps Are Going Out (2nd ed.) – Compass Games
- Europe In Turmoil – Compass Games
- Red Poppies Campaigns Volume 3: Assault Artillery! – Compass Games
- Devil Dogs: Belleau Wood 1918 – Worthington Games
- Gallipoli 1915 – GMT Games
- Decisive Victory 1918: Soissons – Legion Wargames
- Paths of Glory – GMT Games
For information’s sake, games we did not play that we owned:
- Verdun 1916 – Conflict Simulations Limited
- Breakthrough: Cambrai – MMP
Games that we purchased whilst the event was ongoing and still haven’t played:
- Great War Commander – Hexasim
- Rock of the Marne – MMP
- Verdun Steel Inferno – Fellowship of Simulations
- World War I Deluxe – Decision Games
- Pursuit of Glory – GMT Games
…we have a problem… hahaha.
Thanks again for reading and watching, if you have any favourite WWI games out there let us know what they are and what you like about them below!
-Alexander
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Kind of amazed you guys don’t have GMT’s Fields of Despair.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153728/fields-despair-france-1914-1918
Got a chance to play it a year ago, and really enjoyed it.
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I see that it did get a brief shout out in the review, but is not listed on this post as a WWI owned but not played for this series.
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Yeah we didn’t include WWI games that we had played prior to this event, so Fields of Despair, and a number of others didn’t make it into the video.
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I love “The Lamps are going out” so much that I bought the second edition again after owning the first edition already.
This game is so well developped by Luttmann that you know its sequence of play within a couple of minutes.
It plays fast, it is tense, its production is awesome.
A must buy frankly AND you can play the two sides solo.
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Good episode.
I’m looking forward to playing Pursuit of Glory. Not a huge fan of WWI games but this one looks interesting, a rather obscure part of WWI (to me anyway). TE Lawrence, the middle eastern tribes, the Turks, offbeat geography (again to me anyway.)
I liked Illusions of Glory because I didn’t know that much of eastern front WWI and love learning about new history topics.
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Nice job gents. Two other older WW 1 games worth checking out:
1) First World War by Phalanx Games. Out of print, but another Ted Raicer design. This is a lot like AAoS and also the Academy Games “War in America” series, fabulous components.
2) Grand Illusion by GMT. Bit of an odd duck in some ways, but not many games try to play out the Schleiffen Plan. Another Raicer WW 1 design that does not get enough love.
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