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Nuts! Publishing  |  SKU: 19040-300EN

300: Earth & Water

$27.95 CAD
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Description

Designer Yasushi Nakaguro
Publisher Nuts! Publishing
Players 2
Playing Time 30 mins
Suggested Age 12 and up

In 500 BC, Ionia rebelled against Persia's rule and Greece supported it. With this "foreign interference" as an excuse, the Persian empire decided to invade Greece. In 492 BC the Persian forces attacked Macedonia from land and sea. The Persians and the Greeks fought fiercely at Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis. Against the overwhelming forces of the Persian empire, the Greeks used superior tactics and "weapons" such as hoplites (heavy infantry) and triremes. The Greeks had also excellent leaders in times of crises and eventually prevailed over the Persians.

300: Greco-Persian Wars is a wargame for two players. One player controls the Greeks, gathered around the Athenians, and the other controls the Persians, fighting for the hegemony of the eastern Mediterranean. Through all five expeditions, each player aims to control more cities than their opponent.

The game engine is a "card driven" system. Players raise armies and buy cards during production. Cards can be used to play an event or move an army or fleet. Events can provide advantages in battles or interfere with the enemy, but military action is paramount to win. Moreover, each game will change dramatically according the order the events occur.

The rules are simple and the playing time is short, but both Greece and Persia have a wide range of strategies, so victory will challenge both players.

Customer Reviews

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Logan Arnold
Quick and Streamlined CDG

A pleasant enough time with a abstracted scale, quick enough that players can play back to back to try both sides.

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Aaron Balla
A fantastic, quick little wargame.

The Players Aid on Youtube did a great review on this little game: they loved it too!

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Sam Spade
Elegant and Streamline Wargame

A triumph in minimalism and depth. Agonizing decisions with great replay-ability.

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Ryan Krebs
Clever Minimalistic Wargame

One small map, some wooden armies, and 16 unique cards; that's all you need for this short, thematic and highly replayable war game.
After reading the summary of this 2500 year old war on the back of the instruction manual, as well as the flavour text on the cards, we were fully engrossed in this game.
I loved how important historical events, like the untimely deaths of two Persian emporers during this war, give this fairly simple strategic wargame a sense of high stakes and adaptive strategizing.
Really cool little game!