Here are the top countries with visitors to this website (This War of Ours):
Wow … visitors to our site from all over the world (over 60 countries)!
Over 60 countries have visited our website here!
Campaign extended for more than a day!
Gamefound has extended the campaign for This War of Mine for over 1 day already and the countdown continues to be reset by new endgame backers! Each backer can only extend the time once (so I heard), so that is a lot of backers that are extending the time that the campaign remains open!
over 22 hours extended by endgame and still counting
This screen capture is in Euros fir pledge amount
Endgame extending the end of the campaign still going at nearly 20 hours
After 19 hours and 25 minutes the endgame countdown was still going! Now close to $3 million in pledges.
Endgame Gamefound Discrepancy
The Gamefound campaign for This War of Mine 2nd Edition is using something they call “Endgame” that extends the campaign each time someone adds a pledge (or something like that). They have a countdown to when the campaign will end (to nudge you to get something). However … they have that endgame countdown in two different places and as you can see in this side by side shot, the countdowns are not even close to matching!
8 mins 50 secs on the left counter … and 4 mins 8 secs on the counter on the right – both were counting down on my screen at the same time.
How Many Cards Are There (2nd Ed)
TOTAL CARDS
- 195 Core Game (1st Ed)
- 115 Expansions (1st Ed)
- 352 2nd Edition (with Add Ons)
TOTAL 651 cards (About Sleeves for Cards)
OFFICIAL: Last Day AND Endless Night are included
Based on Awaken Realms reply in the Gamefound comments May 8 both 1st Edition scenarios (Last Day and Endless Night) are included in the Core pledge for the 2nd Edition of This War of Mine:
A fantastic written review by a real survivor of the Siege
Is the game This War of Mine realistic? Does it match up with things that really would happen during a siege? If you are wondering about getting the game and if these questions ring true, then please read this short review that many comments claim is the board game review they have ever read:
=> Review by Survivor or the Siege of Sarajevo
This is how the review starts … and after this brief beginning, the REAL review begins that includes real life stories to match up with the game!
Quick background.
When I was 8 years old the Siege of Sarajevo began. It lasted until I was 12. Even though those times were terrible, if you ask me about the siege, and don’t dig enough inside me, I will tell you just about how great those times were. Let me explain. I never had that many friends and never had that much fun (we were all in one basement hiding from shells, bunch of kids.). People were so good to each other (if I have anything to eat, you have it too. I remember 6-7 “grownups” sitting in the basement smoking one cigarette in circle. Not one cigarette, but the only one, at that moment.) There was art everywhere. In every shelter there were theatre plays, concerts, parties… There was nothing more important than to live a normal life under abnormal circumstances…
But, if you dig deep enough…
That is when memories like ones in “This War of Mine” will start to come out from me. Yeah, those memories hidden deep inside for nobody to hear, see or touch.
After you finish reading THAT review … you may wish to read the next review as well:
Make your own EASY mode
There is no official “easy mode” for This War of Mine.
Yes, I know … that’s the whole point of the game … it ain’t easy!
However… it might be wise to not get totally overwhelmed, frustrated and just not wanting to even play the game again! I have seen online comments from people who bought the game, found it too difficult and then just sold it!
But wait … you **CAN** make the game easier for your first game or two without ruining the fantastic experience that This War of Mine can give you! I got the idea (and some examples) from The Mountain Gamer’s video (see below). And if you look in his video description, he also gives you some links to things you can print out to help you with this!
Meanwhile, back at our shelter (with holes that need boarding up) I came up with 10 possible ways to make the game easier without reducing the immersive experience that the game provides! You can use 1, 2 or 3 of the suggestions … or use all ten!
=> Len’s Easy Mode for This War of Mine v2
And now … here is the video from The Mountain Gamer who thinks that perhaps for your first game (or two), there should be an “easy mode” so you don’t get totally frustrated and just get ride of (or sell) the game!
A Calmly Passionate Review by The Lucky Roll
This review by Sean, at The Lucky Roll, is one of the best reviews of a game that I have seen. He has a way of portraying the heart of the game, how it draws you in, and how it can affect you both during and after the game has concluded. His review was so good that I actually wanted to provide you with a full transcript of it. So I watched it over and over a few times and typed up the transcript, which I am placing below the video:
Hello and welcome to the Lucky Roll. Today, we’re looking at This War of Mine: The Board Game. A game by Michał Oracz, Jakub Wiśniewski and based upon the computer game of the same name. This game is set in the fictional city of Pogoren, a city under siege and gripped in the midst of a horrific civil war, and it’s based upon the real life events that happened in the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian conflict from 1992 to 1996. The siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege of a city since World War II, and the stories that came from the poor living conditions and atrocities inflicted upon the populace at that time, have inspired the stories that players experience within this fictional city of Pogoren in This War of Mine: The Board Game is set in.
It’s a storytelling, push your luck, resource gathering, worker placement style of game, where the players play a group of civilians trying to survive. The game play takes place with several different phases, such as Dawn where players develop the shelter that they are residing in, to Dusk where they must eat and drink in order to stay alive, to Evening where players decide how the group splits up, with some characters braving the streets at night in a Scavenging Phase and others remaining at home in order to guard the shelter during the Night Raid Phase. Players repeat this cycle with a fresh new event every morning, managing their survivors and resources until the end of the war is reached and a ceasefire declared, or until all characters have died.
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