Summer Lightning and Winter Thunder: video reviews by Marco Arnaudo

Marco must be a shut-in these days too!

He has posted a nice balanced review of Winter Thunder.

Marco has previous experience of this chit-pull system, from his nice review of Summer Lightning from 2011:

WW2 +80

80 years and one day ago the Second World War began with the German invasion of Poland. Boardgamegeek user “Grisz” commemmorated the occasion with a video review of Summer Lightning.

Thanks Grisz! I do not speak Polish, so I hope it is a nice review. The video does not end with the game being swept off the table into the Round File, or crumpled, or set afire, so I guess it’s at least OK.

PS: For those who drop by here regularly, I’ve made an addition to the rules to Kashmir Crisis. The “1sep” rules and player aid card now available have an additional optional rule with an alternate, “sudden death” victory option; they replace the “28aug” version. Stop by and replace your rules: New game: Kashmir Crisis

Summer Lightning 2nd Ed: unboxing video

 

A short unboxing video by “Moe” at his game table showing the larger, nicer components of the second edition of Summer Lightning, including a quick flip through the rulebook.

Summer Lightning: Second Edition!

Lock n’ Load Publishing has come out with a new, second edition of Summer Lightning.

The changes are just to the components, but what changes – the map is now 30×23″ (on four 11×17″ sheets) and the counters are now a robust 3/4″, on three laser-cut sheets of 88 each.

That’s the physical edition in a box, which includes a d10 – you can also buy the physical game in a ziploc for less, or a PDF download for about half price. The physical editions also come with the PDF download.

Very spiffy! Go have a look!

https://store.lnlpublishing.com/series/Board-Games-Non-Series/summer-lightning

An old review of Summer Lightning

In trolling around the Net, I discovered that in 2013 Alexey Beznin had posted a long and complimentary review of Summer Lightning in the Russian-language online game magazine “Stratagema”.

http://stratagema-magazine.ru/archives/1535

Here’s the URL, and if you hit Google Translate it does a pretty good job of word substitution. Short version is, he liked it and spent considerable time playing and studying it.

Alexey also posted a nice, photo-heavy AAR of a game to Boardgamegeek in 2013:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1022483/summer-lightning-solo-aar

Spasibo, Alexey!