CONSIGNMENT - Thirty Years War: Europe in Agony, 1618-1648 (2001)

CONSIGNMENT - Thirty Years War: Europe in Agony, 1618-1648 (2001)General Condition of Interior Components: New Original shrink seal is intact. Never opened. Like New Pieces unpunched, cards wrapped, never played. Very Good Pieces Punched, sorted. Rarely or never played. No discernable wear. Good Played but well maintained. Pieces unsorted. Box book(s) shows signs of wear. Fair Discernible wear. Box book(s) shows minor damage and or have been slightly marked. Poor Worn but playable. Box book(s) shows damage and or

 General Condition of Interior Components:

• New - Original shrink/seal is intact. Never opened.
• Like New - Pieces unpunched, cards wrapped, never played.
• Very Good - Pieces Punched, sorted. Rarely or never played. No discernable wear.
• Good - Played but well maintained. Pieces unsorted. Box/book(s) shows signs of wear.
• Fair - Discernible wear. Box/book(s) shows minor damage and/or have been slightly marked.
• Poor - Worn but playable. Box/book(s) shows damage and/or have been significantly marked.

Missing Components:

• Seller has inventoried the components and none are missing.
• Seller has not inventoried the components, but is confident that none are missing.
• Seller has not inventoried the components, and is unsure if any components are missing.

Smoking Household? NO

Pets? CATS

Musty or "Basement" smell? NO

Additional Info:

Central Europe, 1618. Germany is a jigsaw puzzle of independent Electorates, Bishoprics, Dukedoms, and Imperial Free Cities nominally under the control of the Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. An alliance of Protestant leaders rebel against the Emperor, who raises armies to suppress them and regain Catholic property lost during the Reformation; the surrounding kings of Spain, France, Sweden, and Denmark intervene to stake their own claims. Germany is plunged into thirty years of war that will last until 1648, when the exhausted combatants sign a peace establishing the competing spheres of interest that will control Germany for the next two centuries.

"Thirty Years War" recreates this conflict with the award winning wargame system used in GMT's Wilderness War, Paths of Glory, and For the People. There are four scenarios provided: the Full Campaign (14 turns), Early War (5 turns), Intervention (3 turns), and Apocalypse (5 turns).

This is a two-player wargame; one controls the Protestant forces (German Protestants, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, France) while the other runs Catholics (the Empire, Bavaria, Spain, and occasionally Saxony, which can switch sides during play!). The heart of the game is the playing card decks of 55 cards that each player receives. Playing a card gives a player the option to move and attack with an army, to recruit new units, to bank up money to pay ever-hungry troops, or to declare an event.

The Peace of Westphalia made certain that Germany would remain divided for another two centuries. Can the Catholic player defy history by recreating the power of the old Holy Roman Empire? Does Gustavus Adolphus survive to dictate peace to the Emperor in Vienna? Thirty Years War allows the players to determine these and other historical what-ifs, while opening a window onto one of the most influential events in European history.

COUNTERS: 456 full-color die-cut counters.
MAP: One 22"x34" full-color mapsheet
CARDS: 110 Strategy cards
OTHER: Two 10-sided dice, 32-page Rulebook, 2 Player Aid cards

TIME SCALE: 2 years per turn
MAP SCALE: Point-to-point system
UNIT SCALE: 3-5,000 men each
NUMBER OF PLAYERS: One or two

DESIGNER: David Fox
DEVELOPER: Michael Welker
ART DIRECTOR: Rodger B. MacGowan
MAP & CARD ART: Mark Simonitch
COUNTER ART: Mark Simonitch and Rodger B. MacGowan