New to ToI

By caychris, in Tide of Iron

I bought the game a while ago but have not been able to find anyone to play it with yet. Im interested in someone giving me a simplified summary of game play and how ToI differes from other WWII games like Memior'44 etc.

I like the idea of custom stands of units

I think I understand the action turn thing but can someone give me a slightly more condensed description.

Im not sure exactly what constitutes a full turn/round.

Is the strategy card draw random or do you take a particular one from the deck you are allowed. It was a bit unclear to me.

Ill check BGG for more concise play aides.

Any specific details/errata that is glaringly wrong in the base game.

aammondd said:

I bought the game a while ago but have not been able to find anyone to play it with yet. Im interested in someone giving me a simplified summary of game play and how ToI differes from other WWII games like Memior'44 etc.

I like the idea of custom stands of units

I think I understand the action turn thing but can someone give me a slightly more condensed description.

Im not sure exactly what constitutes a full turn/round.

Is the strategy card draw random or do you take a particular one from the deck you are allowed. It was a bit unclear to me.

Ill check BGG for more concise play aides.

Any specific details/errata that is glaringly wrong in the base game.

Comparisons of ToI with M'44 is a frequent discussion in this forum (as well as BGG, et al.) I encourage you to check out post: "TIDE OF MEMOIR" (p. 2 of this forum) and post: "Difference between Tide of Iron and Memoir44?" (p. 3 of this forum).

For condensed descriptions check out the reference sheets/aids here at the Headless Hollow .

If you're interested in finding opponents to play against, try posting your locale on this forum. You never know. There might be ToI games going on all around you.

Where are you from? im in CT usa.

Belloq said:

Comparisons of ToI with M'44 is a frequent discussion in this forum (as well as BGG, et al.) I encourage you to check out post: "TIDE OF MEMOIR" (p. 2 of this forum) and post: "Difference between Tide of Iron and Memoir44?" (p. 3 of this forum).

That was a good thread.