Coming Soon: GMT's Cataclysm

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bayonetbrant

September 28, 2014, 05:05:06 PM
GMT's design blog is talking about this nifty looking WWII game that starts 6 years before WWII, and let's you change the conditions under which the war starts - if it starts at all.

http://www.insidegmt.com/?p=810




QuoteCataclysm's 1933 start date allows players more latitude to craft alternate strategies. Opportunity costs become apparent. France forgoing the Maginot Line would allow it to build a mobile army or a stronger air force. Maybe Italy could construct an aircraft carrier, but at the cost of not refitting its old battleships. Germany could have a go at building a strategic air force. Russia could launch a big navy, if it wanted to. Japan could make an ideal force for going north against Russia—or south against China and the European colonies.

Cataclysm would let players freely explore any course of action within national limits. The game would be agnostic if a strategy was shrewd or foolish. The incentives for conquest (resource areas) would be laid out on a simple political map. There would be no script to follow. Players would be little more than strategic amateurs chasing prizes, much like their historical predecessors.

QuoteCataclysm is not Axis & Allies on Steroids, It is Third Reich on Quaaludes.
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mirth

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September 28, 2014, 05:10:59 PM
Oh my sweet lord!
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bayonetbrant

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September 28, 2014, 05:35:43 PM
that was kind of my thought...  this one's likely already in the "must buy" category for me.
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mirth

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September 28, 2014, 06:03:50 PM
GMT certainly knows how to get me to hand over my money to them on a consistent basis.
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"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Ubercat

#4
September 28, 2014, 07:15:25 PM
I think they were demoing that at WBC. There was definitely some kind of Axis and Allies lookalike games being played for several days.
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calandale

#5
October 01, 2014, 07:47:48 PM
Waiting on this one to see if it ends up too simple.

bayonetbrant

#6
October 01, 2014, 08:44:56 PM
Even if it's a bit simple, just the idea that you could deal with the lead-in to the war is kind of neat.
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ArizonaTank

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October 03, 2014, 08:10:57 AM
Of course if this is just now hitting P500, it may be a year or more before we get it into our hands.
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bayonetbrant

#8
October 03, 2014, 08:22:32 AM
It might be, but it's also been in dev for a few years, and it's got some buzz building from open playtests at WBC and other cons.
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"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

mirth

#9
October 03, 2014, 08:23:48 AM
Hulk want game now!
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

BanzaiCat

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October 03, 2014, 09:56:07 AM
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