Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis

Like many "Euro" type games the topic is just grafted to random mechanics. In this case they mechanics are mundane. The whole game feels basically random. The designer, Mike Herman, is a genius and has designed many of wargaming's greatest hits but this seems more like a random brain fart. Played it twice and will delete, not worth the space it takes on my HD.

I wasn't sure how I felt about this game for a long time. I think fundamentally you need to understand what this game is trying to do, which IMO isn't made clear enough from the store page: it's trying to be a *very* quick-playing CDG. You can get through a game of this in just a few minutes. I'm not totally sure how I feel about CDGs, but this is the easiest entry-point to these kinds of games that I'm aware of. I agree with the other comments that the CDG mechanic can feel kind of grafted on to the situation such that you don't need to actually understand anything about the underlying history and how the cards map to actual actions taken (or available) historically, but I think that just may be the price you need to pay in exchange for the ability to play through the game extremely quickly.

nice fast easy to learn board game, recommended

VERY COOL, TRY WINNING AS THE SOUTH

The AI makes some odd moves, but it has won a few times, and this is a fun way to get in a quick board game.

Wunderbar!