Recent reviews by spaznaz

Let me tell you about Foxhole. At first sight it has relatively simple mechanics, grindy crafting and trench warfare. But what it culminates to is so much more.

During one session I've run logistics for hours over. Collecting raw materials from guys that dedicate hours to farming scraps and the like, driving it around the map to be refined and build guns and ammo, supplies so folks can respawn. Dropping the desperately needed stuff off at the front so people can keep fighting, keep pushing the front line further.
Then some guys snuck a FOB deep into enemy territory so I joined them to take a town from right under the enemy's nose. We took the town, and held it for hours with just a dozen guys, without hope for reinforcement or supplies we just took the dead enemy's guns and ammo. It took enough of the enemy's attention for the front line to advance well forward.

After being pushed out of the town eventually, the FOB remained for the rest of the game, or at least until I logged off, running disruption on enemy supplies. And I went back to running logistics. Some people were preparing to mass produce half-tracks once we hit the technology level required. I started building and stocking ammo for those along with materials and eventually, we started rolling half-tracks up to the front faster than they could be destroyed. I got to drive one up to an enemy FOB they had planted attempting to cut of our own route to the Western front. Shielding our own infantry while my gunner mowed down hostiles, we pushed through and broke down the enemy forward base.


But the final, epic push of the night happened when we took 6 half-tracks, fueled and loaded with ammo, and drove them right up the Western front. Forming a terrifying firing line with grenade throwing infantry between us we came out of nowhere and pushed the front line down so far, the enemy's front effectively collapsed immediately. The crews were mostly hit by gas grenades and died, but our job was done.

This is just from one session, and the game round this took place in will rage on for hours more before one side will finally declare victory. But it's a great example of what such a simple concept can achieve, if only you are willing to participate and write your own story. There will be plenty of material.