The publishing house 4ies, also known as 4Games, has announced that it has reached an agreement with Revolution Games to localize the board game Gettysburg: The First Day, designed for 1-2 players and scoring 8.6 out of 10 on the BoardGameGeek portal.
The First Day of Gettysburg is the first localization on the Russian market of a tactical wargame on the Blind Swords system, which conveys Civil War battles at the tactical level. Participants will become generals commanding soldiers.
Blind Swords is not a hardcore system. It is a game that balances between exciting gameplay and historical detail. This is why many users love it: with fairly simple tools, it recreates the picture of a battle from the era of the American Civil War.
The system is based on random activations. Unit tokens are drawn in random order, so each game is unique. The opponent is constantly involved in the game: there are no long pauses when one gamer "moves for half an hour" and the other waits. Something is constantly happening in the game.
Among other things, historical events are built into Gettysburg: The First Day, but the participant has the right to use them at the right moment according to the rules — this gives tactical flexibility without breaking away from real history. The game takes into account terrain, elevations, and different types of weapons. With smoothbore rifles, you can shoot while on an adjacent hex. With rifled ones — already on two.
Each regiment that participated in the battle in reality is in its historical position. Each regiment has its own level of cohesion and type of weapon. In new boxes, in addition to large scenarios, the developers began to add separate parts of the battle on small maps. This allows you to play out an episode of the battle in the evening without deploying the entire huge field.
Game review from the YouTube channel Zilla Blitz