OT—Fortress America
I still love Fortress America. One of my long-term start-again-stop-again projects has been to create an on-line page devoted to Fortress America. In my experience, it’s entirely possible for the invaders to win, but they need a bit of luck and more than a bit of skill. Even more so than Axis & Allies, Fortress America is a game of psychological warfare.
One change some friends and I have used for years is to place the invasion zones off-limits to lasers. We found that the entire game could be unhinged by as few as three laser hits on Euro-Socialist Pact bombers early in the game. While possibly a reflection of how hard a real world invasion of the continental US would be, we found that we preferred a game in which the US would have to work harder. In fact, we played that way so long (since the game came out) that we rather forgot that the rules allow lasers to target units in the invasion zones.
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