Oblique

Game Design: Amabel HollandMap Art: Donal HegartyHex Number: 86Duration: 60 to 90 minutesPlayers: 2Solitaire Suitability: LowTheme: 18th centuryMSRP: $70.00 Oblique is a scenario-based block game covering eight campaigns of Frederick the Great during the Silesian Wars. Players maneuver around the map, attempting to seize strategic objectives while managing their Despair and bringing their opponent to a decisive battle. Your most important actions will require the expenditure of Supply Pieces, which are generated at periodic intervals and moved along supply lines – either by road networks or by waterways, though in the latter case these must move in the same direction as the river flows. Armies without supplies cannot lay siege, build networks of garrisons, recover from casualties, or fight battles; if you are attacked when you have no supplies, you do so at a grave disadvantage. Threatening supply lines and cutting the enemy off from supply is key to tilting the odds of battle into you