Undaunted: North Africa: A sequel to the WWII deckbuilding game (Games)

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It’s worth noting, because I love it, that vehicles can be stolen. If you abandon your scout car in the middle of the desert, your opponent can climb in and drive away. I think that’s great. I think that’s funny. There can never be enough funny in game design. If ever I, as the Italians, managed to scrape a narrow victory, I would delight in the history I had just changed. My wife would celebrate her victories with the joy of knowing, she had just edged the Allies one step closer to victory and ending the war. Of course, we hadn’t. We had sat late into the night in our kitchen, playing board games; again! But the way this game pulls you in, was for me like no other. DT: Team play, for sure. My favourite part in any game, ever, is team play. Like Birth of America: 1775, or Quartermaster General – any sort of light wargame that supports team play – that’s my jam.

DT: One thing that also helped us, I think, is that Duncan Malloy [who signed the game to Osprey Games] actually commissioned Undaunted: North Africa before Normandy was ever even released. So Trevor and I have worked on Undaunted games two years out. We were done with the design for North Africa before Undaunted: Normandy released. Having that prepped and ready to within a year of Normandy being well received and released, I think that helped, too. guidare che ci permette di spostarci nelle tessere che lo consentono (alcune sono inaccessibili ai veicoli);Many fans of Undaunted would argue that the biggest addition Reinforcements brings is an official solo system for the game. When we discussed the idea of adding a solo system of the game with Osprey, we told them that we'd prefer not to design it ourselves. (Trevor hasn't had much experience in designing solitaire systems, and David prefers to design games to be solitaire from the beginning rather than adapting a solo system to a multiplayer game.)

DT: One thing we should say, just to give credit where credit’s due, is that Dávid Turczi designed the original concept of the solo system, but I think the vast, vast majority of the work that was done, was done by David Digby. He basically did all of the scenario development, and Anthony Howgego, who is a developer at Osprey, did a ton of the development on it, too.Undaunted: Reinforcements really brings the design for Normandy and North Africa to conclusion. It allows us to give players what they've been asking for from the first days of Normandy 's release. From the both of us, as well as Dávid Turczi, David Digby, and the entire Osprey team, we hope you all are as excited to play Reinforcements as we are! Undaunted: North Africa is a stand-alone sequel to the brilliant Undaunted: Normandy. You do not need one to play the other, nor must you play in sequence. The rules and gameplay in both are very similar, but the stories told, very of course very different. Undaunted: North Africa will feel very familiar to players of the first game but does add a few changes to the rules; namely there is no more respawning, the game is far more asymmetric, and you can now drive Tanks! “Without victory, there is no survival.” David Thompson: For the eight new scenarios we’re adding, you can play each of those two-player or four-player. But the solo play is a little bit out of control. It’s literally every single scenario from Normandy, every single scenario from North Africa, plus the eight new scenarios. And you can play each one as either side [US vs. Germans, or Italians vs. British]. So there’s 62 ways to play solo, and every one of those is tailored to the scenario. One of the most glaring differences in the game from Normandy to North Africa is the differences in objectives and unit composition for each side in the various scenarios. When we finished, I felt drained. It was a mighty battle, and we talked for hours afterwards about what we had just done. What it must have been like. How we were astounded how little we both knew about this part of the War. And how we really wanted to just play again! “This is a war of people and causes.”