The Great War 1914-1918: Clash of Empires

[Flashman]

Hold out for another decade and they’ll fit you with a plastic heart. You can pretty much live forever then. Which you’re gonna need to do if you want to ever play this game.

[Grimwolf]

What’s the status with this game is it still in the works or has it been cancelled

[Imperious Leader]

No chance of cancelling. This year , but no date for official release.

[bgugs]

How is this going?

[Imperious Leader]

Combat section is being rewritten yet again for clarity. Should have that completed by end of month. Thats basically the holdup

[3_of_5]

I was wondering why you made Corfu French? Is it for balancing purposes?

[Imperious Leader]

It has a value of 1 for recruiting, meaning the french player can “build” one infantry there. Also, the Serbian player can retreat to Albania and lastly Corfu during land combat ( does not require sea transport). It was made French because they occupied in early 1916 till end of war. We needed to assign them a French color due to this.

[Imperious Leader]

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/french-forces-occupy-corfu

[bgugs]

Is this still expecting to be released in 2017?

[Erocco]

@bgugs:

Is this still expecting to be released in 2017?

It should be released November 11, 2018. Mark the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI.

We waited this long what’s another year.

[bgugs]

I am fine waiting, just last I heard it was expected to be released this year so I was curious

[Imperious Leader]

Yea this year, looks like Christmas

[bgugs]

Christmas release date or in time to order myself a Christmas present?

[John Brown]

Yes, it will be a nice Christmas gift. Can’t wait. :-D

[CWO Marc]

@Imperious:

Yea this year, looks like Christmas

This is a nice variation of the traditional soldier’s wish that “the war will be over by Christmas”.  In this case, we’re hoping that the war (game) will start around Christmas.

[Chacmool]

@Imperious:

Yea this year, looks like Christmas

Would be nice!

[Imperious Leader]

Ok this game is coming out next year. The rules have been rewritten and its still not perfect and were not happy with it. The game is finished and nothing else is holding up things but the clarity of the rules. Sorry for the delay but keep note that i never made any official release date, but was going on assumptions.

[bgugs]

:-(

[Erocco]

The original post back from 2012 says this game has been play tested for 7 years. So this means this game has been in design stage for 12 years.  :roll: Isn’t it a bit ridiculous for a board game to be in design stage for 12 years going in 13. Something smells fishy here.

[Imperious Leader]

Thats not correct. The game was not picked up by a company until more than a few years since we were playing it. Its not the case that its taken some company 10 years to develop this game. Once that occurred, the design was changed somewhat to make it easier to digest.

So nothing “fishy”