Deadlock! társasjáték

Angol leírás

Deadlock! is an abstract strategy game based off of WW1's battles along the Western front. In the game, the players' ability to understand the duality between simultaneous offensive and defensive operations is crucial for victory.

Victory is achieved when a player breaks through the opposing player's defense and reaches their side of the board. Combat is predetermined on a ratio table and the players' forces start out evenly matched, but despite this gameplay remains fluid and simple. Armed witha. variety of troops, it is up to the player to be able to effectively juggle their operations, not the roll of the die. If they do, they may have a chance at breaking through the deadlock to the greener fields beyond.

The advent of trenches and arrival of reinforcements like infantry, artillery, and even tanks, serve to give both new challenges and possible strategies to the players, as well to keep gameplay overall interesting. Players will have to pick and choose the placement of reinforcements, careful to keep in mind that any one troop committed to a planned attack is one less troop committed to a defence elsewhere. If players aren't careful to maintain a balance between their planned offenses and defenses, they will often find themselves losing more ground than they gain, if not a complete loss of the game. Too close of a balance, and players will end up finding themselves deadlocked and in a stagnated position, with prospects of only a stalemate at best.

The player must understand that there is no perfect route to victory, and that not every casualty will doom them to failure. It is how they react towards and limit their losses, while effectively still maintaining a threat to the enemy, that allows them to perform successful counterattacks and offenses that can then amount to a breakthrough. It is essential that the players understand the balance between offense and defence, and the cat-and-mouse game they must play. If they do, they will be able to create a situation that will ultimately lead to a breakthrough, and then hopefully their victory.

Deadlock! is played on a 12x6 checkered board, with square pieces to represent their troops. Besides the rulebook, the only other components included in the game are tiles to mark entrenched and destroyed positions.

Deadlock! is originally designed as a PnP game for the 2025 Wargame Design Competition, and the files for the game components are under this BGG page. It is designed for two player, but can be played with more. To play with more players, simply double (or triple, etc) the length of the board (from 12x6 to 12x12, etc) as well as double or triple the amount of playing pieces.

—description from the designer