Blitzkrieg!

Note: This is a short really early legacy review before I started posting longer form review in our Facebook Group.

A slight break from the norm as Katie took Toby(3) out for the morning leaving Jack(6) and I to try an older game.

My usual disclaimer: My boys have both been brought up playing games and as such can play games usually beyond their years.

The game we decided to play was Blitzkrieg! A 2 player fairly abstract WW2 wargame best described at “world war 2 in 20 mins”

The idea is this. On the board their are 5 tracks representing different battles. As you lay token on the tracks you get points moving the tracks towards your side. The further you get towards your side the more victory points you get and things tend to snowball which you are trying to avoid your opponent doing.

Different tokens have different abilities and as you fill up a row of tokens victory points are awarded… and here is the key bit… to whoever is winning on that track, meaning you might move the track towards your side but not far enough meaning the other player get the points.

If you move one of the 5 tracks to your side you instantly get EVERYTHING in that section which will likely see you well on your way to winning the game.

Most victory points wins.

The game is stated as being for 14+ but it’s a fairly simple concept and once Jack had learnt what all the different symbols meant (there is only about 7) we were all good to go and had 2 competitive games where I won one and Jack won the other.

I enjoyed this game way more than I expected to and it is unbelievably simple but quickly becomes this play 5 tug of war games at once and trying to decide do I go for one area but potentially lose in others or do I tussle in the middle and try and make little gains here and there.

I reckon you could play this with most older children Jack 100% got the rules.

I’d say get the version the comes with the nippon expansion included that sees an alternative future where Germany occupied American and Japan invades with Godzilla .

Really good game that works well with adults and older kids. Big thumbs up from me.