The Fast Action Battle (FAB) Series - Volume 1: The Bulge
From Rick Young, designer of Europe Engulfed, comes a series of fun,
tense block games. FAB games focus on speed and playability with
low-unit density while keeping the history both accurate and exciting.
Volume 1: The Bulge brings you the Battle of the Bulge from December
16th through December 27th. You command the division and brigade level
units using the historical orders of battle. You order your forces to
key points, and decide how and when to order extra Assets to bolster
them. Note that there are never enough of these Assets to give to all
the units begging for them, so you need to weigh your decisions
carefully.
FAB delivers a new blend of units and decisions to the block game
genre: your forces are a mixture of wooden blocks and die-cut counters.
Blocks: your divisions and brigades are multi-step wooden blocks with
printed labels on one side only, with step-losses represented by
rotating the blocks. FAB has a new twist on the units in that the pips
on the edges of the blocks are color coded to represent troop quality,
which can change as a Division suffers losses. Elite Units can lose
their edge and become Veteran, while Green Units can harden and become
Veteran as they experience the strains of combat.
Counters: Die-cut counters represent (1) additional Assets available to
you as the Field Commander and (2) major Events that could have or did
occur during the battle.
Assets represent engineers, army level artillery, independent armor and
infantry regiments/battalions, and other small units that can be
temporarily assigned to the battles that you deem important to your
strategy.
Randomly drawn Events provide divisional replacements, air strikes,
interdiction teams, parachute drops, and events unique to each battle
in the Series. These Events represent unique opportunities which you
can use to influence the outcome, although you cannot count on exactly
when these opportunities will be available to you.
Another strong element of FAB is the return of Special Actions, which
have already been proven in GMT's Europe Engulfed design to give
flexible, exciting game play. Special Actions give you tense choices in
deciding how and when to seize initiative or interfere with a sudden
move by your opponent.
Series Designer: Rick Young
Series Developer: John Foley
This description provided by BoardGameGeek.com, the best source for
board game information on the web!
|
|
