SOE: Lysander - Solitaire Air Wargame
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- SOE: Lysander is the first of a new set of low-cost, book-based games in the "Special Missions" series that put you directly into the cockpit.
Your mission is as a pilot in Great Britain's most secret aviation unit, "A" Flight of RAF 161 Squadron (Special Duties). You will fly Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents, wireless operators, saboteurs, assassins, political figures, heads of the French Resistance, and others into and out of German-occupied France during the darkest times of the Second World War.
By moonlight, you will navigate your Westland Lysander Mk. IIIA (SD) aircraft across the Channel and over occupied France to find a distant landing zone deep behind enemy lines. You will encounter flak, German patrols, small arms fire, night fighters, and the constant threat of being discovered by the Gestapo.
SOE: Lysander is in the solitaire narrative style and with a small table footprint and easy-to-learn rules. While the gameplay is designed to be straightforward, the challenges you will face are extensive. Your goal is to keep your assigned Circuits supplied -- these are underground partisan cells in the French Resistance. Your operations begin in April 1943 and your mission continues until just before D-Day.
The odds of survival are slim. Do you have what it takes?
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Nice first look! I’m glad to see the option to get the counters and maps and charts professionally published. That’s well worth it for me. Thanks for the detailed look!
Hi Zilla, i think it is worth the printed components. Thomas is a wonderful designer and has created a number of narrative style solo games, right up your ally. =)
Nice video! Eagerly looking forward to seeing you 'dive' into this game, soon! Thank you for sharing
Hi Luca, Thanks for watching. I am reading the rules now and this game will be one of my next play through videos. It is such a unique game and Thomas van Hare has offered to play along with me...
Sir, i just came across this and wanted to say THANK YOU! As for your comment at 4:45 about the historic accuracy of the full moon periods during 1943 and 1944, month by month -- the answer is, yes, the game accurately depicts the phases of the moon by date throughout all of the charts. As well, the weather charts are based on the 1943 and 1944 weather records for northern France and England. Thanks for pointing that out!
You are very welcome, I will have a play thru soon. Still unpacking from the move getting my new studio set up, but this game is one of the first ones I’m gonna do a play through for. you do awesome stuff, dude.
@@HissyCat -- Thank you, good sir! This is a very tough game to survive so if you would like to play it together, let me know! We'll figure out how to do that!
@@HistoricWings I will. I want to give it a go myself first, but I always enjoy chatting and playing games with you.
Looks like an interesting little game. Thanks for continuing to shine the light on some of the more obscure stuff out there in the wargaming world.
my pleasure, there are a lot of good games out there that could use a little love.
Very interesting.
Hi Chris, thank you for watching. Yes, this is a very interesting game and for me really sparks my imagination and curiosity about some of the lessor known or gamed aspects of the war.
The game definitely sounds interesting !
Hi Mike, thanks for watching. It is such an interesting topic. Thomas designs games with a lot of player agency, so it’s not just a follow the table flow chart and roll dice type of game. I am really looking forward to doing a game play video.