Trench Club, WWI War Miniatures Strategy Board Game, Ages 14+, 1-4 Players, 2+ Hours Playing Time

The game includes two detailed maps (on the front and back of the game board). The movement range of the different units depends on their speed and the terrain they are moving on. For example, streets allow for faster movement and forests slow you down.

You can conquer strategically important forts in the game. The forts will produce money you can use to repair your damaged units or buy reinforcements.

The game has high re-playability because no game starts like the other. Each player uses their starting units to build 3 armies. These armies are then randomly placed on the game board for the start setup. This puts you right into action and allows for different strategies with high variability.

Innovative marker system to indicate damage and combat experience of units

Trench Club features a complex combat system that depends on type of unit, combat damage, experience, strategic formation, terrain and armor. “Dice luck” only plays a minor role (since battles involve a lot of 12-sided dice the outcome is usually around the expected value).

Each unit can suffer damage (gray markers) in battles and gain combat experience (white, yellow and red markers) that can be added to the miniature units. This way you can level-up your units during the game.

Trench Club is a highly complex strategy game, yet very easy and intuitive to learn the rules. And you can start playing immediately: The rule book includes a quick start guide of only 3 pages that allows you to start playing immediately without reading the rules before. You read one paragraph then play the according turn phase, then you read the next section and continue playing.

The game includes a printed rule book in English/German language. Spanish, French and Italian versions are available for download.

Special Forces units

The included "Special Forces" extension includes 8 new unit types (cannon boat, medic, airship, poison gas launcher, ground attack aircraft, railway gun, gun turrets and minelayer) for even more fun and variability. The special forces work like technological developments: you can purchase them, but you don't know what you will get! It can turn your strategy upside down if you hoped for an airship but actually get a medic.

While the normal game units are carefully balanced, the special forces units are not. Each one adds heavy disruption to the game-play and requires an entire new strategy. Let me give you some examples:

• The Minelayer can install explosive mines throughout the battlefield. You know where they are - but your enemy doesn't!
• The Poison Gas Launcher (one of the many horrors of World War I) damages units on multiple fields at the same time - friend and foe!
• The Medic lets you repair units in the field - normally you would have to retreat from the front line to your own forts

14 extra large fort (bunker) miniatures

Forts (bunkers) are printed on the game board - which is totally sufficient for the game. However, it just looks so much cooler with the included extra large fort miniatures to place on the game board!