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Tac of War
- Replay Value (1-10): 7
- Fun Factor (1-10): 6
- Worth Buying (1-10): 4
Tac of War is a Stratego-like game, either inspired by it or many of the knockoffs available all across stationery stores in Asia. Like Stratego, the pieces are on a square grid, and on your turn you choose one and move it one space north, south, east, or west. There is an attack heirarchy that determines which piece wins in case of an attack (piece moving onto another piece). Unlike Stratego, there is no hidden information; you know at all times where all the pieces are.
Since the pieces have a general triangular relationship (vehicles beat
infantry, infantry beat officers, officers beat vehicles), there's actually
a reasonably amount of strategy in this game.
Unfortunately, the actual attack chain is rather weird and non-intuitive (how does a cruiser defeat a tank, exactly?) which means the text on the pieces have to shoulder the burden of making the game understandable and accessible, and
I'm afraid it doesn't do a great job of it. I basically worked out a mnemonic (it helps that the game is similar to that of many games I grew up playing), but my opponent kept on making mistakes that I offered lots of takebacks on.
Once you put aside the clunky interface, though, it really is a nice
little game of tactics and maneuvers -- just like the box says.
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