Fortress America Review - with Tom Vasel

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  • @wetwillyccma
    @wetwillyccma 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have all the games that came out way back when. Axis & Allies, Broadsides and boarding parties, Shogun, Conquest of the Empire, Fortress America. I played them all like you Tom, hundreds of times. I still have the originals. That was a good time in my life when I could sit down for hours with the guys and play games. Thanks for bringing back those great memories Tom.

  • @roguerifter9724
    @roguerifter9724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I loved this when I was a kid. I remember playing it with dad and some of his friends. I still remember the first time I played as the US. The last turn began with the invaders two cities away from victory. They managed to take one and another two were down to single defending units by the end.

  • @stevenotjackramsey
    @stevenotjackramsey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The "old" bombers weren't SR71's Tom, they were B1B's.

    • @PDXpackrat
      @PDXpackrat 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or possibly TU-22 "Backfire" :)

  • @joeelliott2157
    @joeelliott2157 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Maybe it's time for a Fortress Canada game to come out.

  • @Marinealver
    @Marinealver 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I want Canada to be an expansion, with objective cards that could make the invaders enemies or even a ally to the US player.

  • @Barl3000
    @Barl3000 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the differential gameplay, it seems to be something that is making a comeback right now, with Ladies and Gentlemen, Fortress America and Netrunner.

  • @generalchang2217
    @generalchang2217 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the game should have optional allies and retaliation cards for the invaders. I have the new version of the game too and improvise to do some of the suggestions I've mentioned.

  • @generalchang2217
    @generalchang2217 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think their should be a limited nuclear weapons strike on cities for further expansion. Moreover a hope within this year a expansion release possibly with airborne, airlift, tankers,fighters , stealth bombers and special forces units are included, which I believe is coming out.

  • @3ggh3ad
    @3ggh3ad 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Factories in detroit? that doesnt sound right :P

    • @doomed2063
      @doomed2063 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There are still tons of production plants in Michigan. The factories that no longer build in a lot of cases are still standing. In fact, the factories that built Tanks and Aeroplanes during WWII are still standing in Flint and has been converted into something else. If there was ever. A desperate need, there is a great chance those facilities as well as the many factories throughout the state would be converted back to build war materials.

    • @drakashrakenburgproduction5369
      @drakashrakenburgproduction5369 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey in times of war they would probably reopen or rebuilt.

  • @andrewtodaro2874
    @andrewtodaro2874 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I just got this game for Christmas! I think it will be fun!

    • @oxmyx1
      @oxmyx1 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      up for a game? email me email addy and whatever you want to use as a password

  • @bistronomics
    @bistronomics 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Funny, I have pretty much the same history with this game as you Tom. I got this game 20ish years ago (I am 33, so when I was about 10 or so), & I and fell in LOVE with it. This is the game that made me realize that there is more to board games than monopoly... and like you, I always wanted to play USA! (and regularly beat 15 year olds when I was 10, muah)
    I love this reprint too, I lost the original when my folks sold it at a garage sale, so I was giddy when I found this.

  • @Saru5000
    @Saru5000 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great game. I was really happy to see it get reprinted too! My friends had this when it first came out and we'd play it all the time!

  • @JaKamps
    @JaKamps 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you for stating the game's length

  • @nandezification
    @nandezification 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They need to reprint this and make the units look modern not futuristic. Maybe the invaders can be either new coalitions of foreign powers or some sort of alien invader.

  • @Lugo428
    @Lugo428 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Each laser system has 3 parts. A left half, a right half and the cannon itself. One of my lasers has 2 left halves. Love the game, but that pisses me off.

  • @mrKreuzfeld
    @mrKreuzfeld 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imo the balance is what it should be. About 80/20 in favor of the attackers. It is still America which is the most fun side to play

  • @elizabethlestrad5282
    @elizabethlestrad5282 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is that Star Wars game in the yellow box above your right shoulder at 9:37?

    • @RattyRandnums
      @RattyRandnums 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm not positive but I believe that is "Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit" (2000) an old Episode 1 based title. Pricey harder to find game which reconstructs the 3 final battles going on at the climax of The Phantom Menace.

  • @joeelliott2157
    @joeelliott2157 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I like this game a lot. Interesting for both sides. A bit more fun for the Americans. You get to hit and run. It is hard to really hit the defending side while the attacker is inherently more vulnerable. I like it, as the Americans, for the invaders to finally take the number of cities needed to win, only for the American counterattack to knock them just below the number needed to win, and get some extra cards to help make the stand.

  • @oxmyx1
    @oxmyx1 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    So how is it that this has 18,000 views and I cant find anyone to PBEM the game? Let me know what side you want

  • @francescospuntarelli7369
    @francescospuntarelli7369 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    whats the difference between this version and the one with saddam on the cover? Does it suffer any change?

  • @andrewnolan733
    @andrewnolan733 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loved this game when I was in Junior High. Conquest of the Empire was 5he beat one though.

    • @PDXpackrat
      @PDXpackrat 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I unfortunately lost my copy of CotE. Still have Shogun somewhere though.

  • @violentfrog_
    @violentfrog_ 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how FF says its a 1-2 hour game on the box lol

  • @robertsnyder1890
    @robertsnyder1890 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    i played this game before, exciting.

  • @doomed2063
    @doomed2063 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is one of those 'Holy Grail' games that if I ever run across it out in the wild and I have the cash on me, I'm going to pick up without a second thought. If I don't have the cash on me I'm going to run out and get the needed money and come back and buy it.

    • @doomed2063
      @doomed2063 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In High School I was part of a local gaming group and that is where I first experienced this game. This was in the late 90's and early 2000's and by that time the game, like the original Axis & Allies at the time, was out of print.
      I missed the game when it returned to print but I've always kept a watchful eye for this and have unfortunately never ran across it in the wild.
      It was in that group that I also first experienced Samurai Swords and Civilization. It was an awesome experience that introduced me to the world of board games and I've been a board gamer ever since.

    • @Lugo428
      @Lugo428 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +DOOMED ! that's interesting. I saw Axis & Allies 1941 edition in target. I loved the concept and got it. Then I saw another game, Ikusa a reprint of Shogun and Samurai Swords. I got that one too. Once I was at the game store, I saw games that caught my attention and suited my taste. Haven't been a board game long, about 3 years. I now have around 16 games.

  • @matthewgreene4747
    @matthewgreene4747 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    What version is best? The 1st or the new release?

    • @mrKreuzfeld
      @mrKreuzfeld 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      New release is better. Have played both many times.

  • @TheAnimatorDave
    @TheAnimatorDave 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks like fun, I wish they would make it an online game.

  • @FooDogDM
    @FooDogDM 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    You're welcome, Tom. ~ Me and the Other Canucks

  • @mattb4072
    @mattb4072 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Canada would definitely stand by America!

  • @neue01
    @neue01 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Strangely America is fighting an internal color revolution right now

  • @samizdatbroadcasts7654
    @samizdatbroadcasts7654 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Wolverines!!!!

  • @JJPasadena
    @JJPasadena 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I received this game for Xmas back in '89. A few yrs later during the Gulf War it dawned on me that Saddam Hussein had been on the cover yrs before Op Desert Storm. Weird coinkydink? Hmm. Lol. Side note: I always wanted Shogun but I never picked it up...to this day I wonder how it played.

  • @FMD-FullMetalDragon
    @FMD-FullMetalDragon 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    This game looks fun. Never played it before but with this coming out and Red Dawn coming out in theaters soon... Good stuff.
    Thank you for the review. :)

  • @temmy9
    @temmy9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Played the crap out of this. Found the key for the invaders was the south front.

  • @EHAmos
    @EHAmos 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:22 When are you going to review that carton of eggs over your right shoulder?

  • @lordsplodge
    @lordsplodge 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks good but just like a lot of Fantasy Flight games it takes too long for me and my group. We tend to have 3 hours play time max. Shame that.

  • @BlackRazor54
    @BlackRazor54 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    They must be bad by now, why aren't they in the fridge?

  • @walt776
    @walt776 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wolverines!

  • @pielord928
    @pielord928 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    You guys are beast!
    -America

  • @pedro_navarro
    @pedro_navarro 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you think about this game's theme in realistic terms, something really, really evil must have done the US to the rest of the world in order to provoke such a cohesive response from everywhere. So if the good ones are the invaders, shouldn't they have called it "Revenge over America"?

    • @EggShen905
      @EggShen905 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know it's just a game, but look: the good ones aren't the invaders. This game was made when communists were the primary enemies of the entire west; communists don't need an excuse to grab land and push their beliefs via force of arms against others.
      Every country (regrettably, obviously) kills other people for gold and goods. But only zealots and terrorists do it for ideology. And those people are never "the good ones".

    • @pedro_navarro
      @pedro_navarro 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Internet Peasant You can listen to Tom Vasel saying that there are asian, european and south american countries attacking the US, therefore, and just using logical arguments, the evil ones in this game are not the communists but the US which must have launched some nuclear weapons around or anything like that. Go, United Nations!... Go!

    • @EggShen905
      @EggShen905 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, the original storyline of the game involves communist aggression, presumably unprovoked by nuclear attack.

    • @pedro_navarro
      @pedro_navarro 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Internet Peasant In the time this game is inspired any enemy of America was a communist. This scenario is really similar to that of nazi Germany (Canada being America's Austria).

  • @thomaspenner1318
    @thomaspenner1318 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    this game needs to add Canadian invasion so I can reenact Canadian Bacon

  • @RogCBrand
    @RogCBrand 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those commies didn't realize that Tom is a giant among men! He climbed to the top of Miami's Four Seasons Hotel and swatted their jet bombers out of the air!
    :P

  • @BlackRazor54
    @BlackRazor54 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Them Canadian's aren't all dumb, see they're just layin' back waitin' to see who wins, then they come in and attack them while they're at their weakest.

    • @mattb4072
      @mattb4072 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      And send em all to our syrupy gulags

  • @mirordemon
    @mirordemon 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's that hate about Europe?

  • @pjpaella
    @pjpaella 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tom, you are wearing a red shirt....
    =)

  • @falconiusazurius5572
    @falconiusazurius5572 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    This looks like a game I might like. Unfortunatly it is done by fantasyflight games. I've decided a while back to never buy any of their games again.

    • @oxmyx1
      @oxmyx1 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jerry Morton You should try the PBEM version. We just need players

    • @doomed2063
      @doomed2063 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's too bad as FFG is known for producing excellent, high quality games.

    • @Lugo428
      @Lugo428 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Feels free to tell me it's none of my business, but why?

    • @falconiusazurius5572
      @falconiusazurius5572 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Lugo428 Surprisingly, I’m still alive five years after making this comment. And still holding the same view. I think FFG early on bought into this idea of Wizards Of The Coast (magic the gathering), you know, printing cards is as good as printing money. And this is why there are so many decks of cards in every box and also how they justify their high price point. You end up buying a card game that’s pretending to be a boardgame. But what if you wanted a boardgame that’s more of a boardgame? Then you’ll have to forget about FFG. They’ve reached a point where it’s a physical impossibility for them to design a boardgame without many decks of cards in it.

    • @Lugo428
      @Lugo428 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@falconiusazurius5572 ah. That's fair. Me personally, as long as I like the game, I couldn't care if it's board or card. Although, the high price does kill it a bit, I'll agree.

  • @GrandElemental
    @GrandElemental 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Goal is to destroy America? I already like this game! >=)

  • @LinX1515
    @LinX1515 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brave underdog americans defending against (communist!!!) invaders OR people of the world uniting to stop US from building giant death lasers. Does this game have an actual backstory and a reason for invasion?

    • @Lugo428
      @Lugo428 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The U.S. developed a laser system that can destroy missiles heading for the homeland. Obviously, it must be incredibly accurate to achieve such a feat. The rest of the world are understandably apprehensive. If it can do that, what is to stop the U.S. from taking people out on a whim? They asked that the U.S. dismantle the weapon system because it tips the balance of power to heavily in their favor. But the U.S. said that it would only use it for national defense purposes. Eventually it became clear... if this weapon system is to be destroyed, it would have to be by force. 1 chance. 1 invasion. 3 fronts simultaneously. The U.S. wouldn't use the weapon on their own soil, right?

  • @francescodefilippis9384
    @francescodefilippis9384 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The theme of this game is one of the reasons why the rest of the world makes fun of US...anyway, you like it, go for it

  • @PMMagro
    @PMMagro 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "For some reason the entire world does not like them".
    This is North Korean thinking, most people love american culture and the american lifestyle.

  • @Rihnoswirl
    @Rihnoswirl 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    First comment! Yay! :)