How many of ya’ll play ‘Fortress America?’ I play this game which was released with Axis and Allies in the game master series and is quite popular. It was printed extensively in the 1980’s and reprinted in 2012. If any of you want to see the added section under other games upvote and/or comment, thanks.
Fortress America and Conquest of the Empire
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Yes, it wasn’t easy. There were two city battles that were the result of luck and kept me going or I would have been defeated as America must hold 13 cities.
Fortunetaly, I was able to destroy the bombers for both the Soviet and Central Americans and that caused their attacks to be much less effective. Then I was able to wear them down by constantly retreating.
It was awesome!
RB
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I wish they made a ‘conquest of Germany’ game with British, American and Soviet forces and a similiar game system. Germans could have all sorts of special super weapons during the game.
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@Imperious:
I wish they made a ‘conquest of Germany’ game with British, American and Soviet forces and a similiar game system. Germans could have all sorts of special super weapons during the game.
Hey, IL, what’s this “they” business? Aren’t you the game-maker on these boards? :wink:
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LOL, yeah IL let us know when you go into production…
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So, is Conquest of the Empire NOT recommended? I recently looked at the box, and it seemed cool to me.
Also, is Shogun (the tower one) better or worse than Samurai Swords (formerly known as Shogun)? I was thinking of getting that one too…
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Jerma,
Yes, the cover art for COTE is cool, but take it from someone who spent almost $50 on e-bay for it, IT AIN’T WORTH IT! Eagle Games came out with an update of it a few years ago – I think there may be a few available online. It looked interesting, but is a completely different game. After shelling out $50 for the old version, I passed on spending $50 on the new version.
G
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Ever find anything for Fortress America?
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Not sure I follow your question AJ. You can certainly find Fortress America sets (some in very good condition) on ebay. I haven’t checked in a while, but I almost always find at least 2-3 sets for sale. The second wife makes the man clean out his old shit, etc. :lol: Happens every day!
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I have several copies of CotE. I got them to play miniatures with. Painted up and all the figures and paced them on multiple stands as cohorts.
The game was lacking special events, so we made up some cards. Gothic invasion- retreat all army units from Gaul, Vesuvius erupts- lose 1/2 units in southern Italy, Plauge in Athens- troops in Greece are decimated- lose 1/2 your force there. There were good cards too, like, Good harvest-gain 5 gold! Deplomacy- no one can attack you this turn, as long as you don’t attack anyone else.
It really livened up the game and cold put the brakes on someones steam-roller invasions. I liked it alot myself. I am tempted to get the newer version soon.
Played FA back in the 80s’ too, but didn’t like it as much as AA.
Shogun is a great multiplayer game due to the deplomacy. Had to paint those armies too.
Also had that Bucaneer game for awhile. Couldn’t get anyone to play it though, so I traded it for another CotE game, More cohorts!
Crazy IvanI think Julius Ceasar said it best; “Now were in for it!”
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