Matrix Game: Guns of August

[Cole]

It is a good game and stays true to the original board game.

It has been years since I played the board game and I forget if there was a way to research new technology (in the computer game one can research improvements for infantry, armor, aircraft, artillery, trench effectiveness, and also Storm Troopers).

The game system is designed to recreate some of the stalemate of WWI by making it expensive to purchase offensives for a HQ unit. By assigning an offensive to a HQ unit all units adjoining it may assault. As the game progresses you will find sooner rather than later that you must choose between either restoring depleted units or purchasing new units, or buy an offensives. You will have some fronts stay quiet for long periods of time.