Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis
Playdek, Inc. · 2019 · Board Game, Tabletop, Card Game, Turn-Based Strategy, Alternate History
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About Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis
Can you drive the Secessionist into the Fort Sumter trap that gave Lincoln his historic victory? Can you successfully use the issue of States Rights to divide Northern opinion? Fort Sumter let’s you explore this seminal moment in American history in a fast-playing, easy-to-learn game.
The country is on the verge of being torn apart so how will you act? Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis is set during the events that led to the bombardment of Fort Sumter and the start of the American Civil War. The game takes the side of either a Unionist or Secessionist who must work to preserve the Union or follow the path to dissolve it. Each player uses an area control mechanic to place, move, and remove political capital. The location of political capital determines who controls each of the four crisis dimensions - Political, Secession, Public Opinion, and Armaments. After three rounds of play, the game culminates in a Final Crisis confrontation.
Main Features
CDG (Card Driven Game) system designed by Mark Herman
Civil War Historical setting depicts the actual events of the crisis
Immersive voice over and audio that recreates the sound of that era
Asynchronous 2-player online game play
The country is on the verge of being torn apart so how will you act? Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis is set during the events that led to the bombardment of Fort Sumter and the start of the American Civil War. The game takes the side of either a Unionist or Secessionist who must work to preserve the Union or follow the path to dissolve it. Each player uses an area control mechanic to place, move, and remove political capital. The location of political capital determines who controls each of the four crisis dimensions - Political, Secession, Public Opinion, and Armaments. After three rounds of play, the game culminates in a Final Crisis confrontation.
Main Features
CDG (Card Driven Game) system designed by Mark Herman
Civil War Historical setting depicts the actual events of the crisis
Immersive voice over and audio that recreates the sound of that era
Asynchronous 2-player online game play
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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.1 found this helpful
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!
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