WW1 - No Man's Land

Overview

A game where players take turns moving troops up a WW1 themed battlefield in hopes of taking all the trenches. The first player to take all of these wins the game. 

Players can also use special cards to tip the odds further in their favor, even when their army is nearly depleted!

The cards

There are 2 card categories, lethal cards and tactical cards. 

As of now, players can choose to draw from either the lethal or tactical card deck, or they can choose to only move troops around for their turn. This rule is most likely to change though such that players will always be required to have 1 lethal and 1 tactical card in their deck at all times.

When a card is drawn though, it's presented in a war letter like fashion, as seen here:

Lethal Cards

Lethal cards will directly harm the opponent by killing their troops. There are 4 different cards in this category as of now.

Artillery

Fire an artillery shell. Creates a 3x3 blast zone on impact, killing any troops in it.

Chlorine Gas

Fire a shell containing Chlorine Gas. Creates a 3x3 blast zone, killing any troops inside. Leaves a 3x3 lethal region that lasts 3 turns and moves 1 unit toward the enemy each turn.

Grenade

Select a troop to throw a grenade 8 or less units away at. Grenade creates a 3x3 impact zone, killing any troops caught in the blast.

Step on mine

One of your troops has stepped on a mine and will perish. Select which one.

Meant as a deterrent from always drawing from the lethal card deck.

Tactical Cards

Tactical cards will indirectly harm the opponent by giving you some type of tactical advantage on the battlefield.  There are 4 different cards in this category as of now:

Smoke bomb

Select a 3x3 grid to fire smoke at. Troops are not allowed to move in or through this smoke region. The region lasts for 3 turns, and moves 1 unit from your side each turn.

Reinforcements

If not at max troops, call in at most 2 troops. These troops spawn on your side of the battlefield.

Patch up troop

Revive 1 dead troop anywhere on the battlefield. Troop will be back in action on the next turn.

Misfire

Your army's weaponry has malfunctioned. Turn skipped!

Meant as a deterrent from always drawing from the tactical card deck.

The armies

There are currently only 2 armies in the works as of now - the British army and the German army.

Planning to have more armies later on , but below are what the frames for what these armies are looking like (still a work in progress, especially the German troop frames):

All of the British troop frames:

All of the German troop frames:

The old version of the game 

A while back I designed a physical board game for my level design class. The board game was a turn based strategy game based on WW1 trench warfare.

Some art from the board game itself

Below is some of the old art I created in Adobe Illustrator for the physical version of this board game! 

(The board itself, which has 3 trenches)

(Some of the non lethal cards players can choose from)

(Some of the lethal cards players can choose from)

(The troop pieces, consisting of British and German forces)

Thanks for stopping by! 

If this project interests you, the devlogs will also contain lots of progress updates as development goes on.