![]() “Well, I received a review copy, so, I mean, I do have to play the game. “You know, you don’t have to play the game.” “Pretty bad! Neutered! Adrift in a pitch-black sea!” I’m supposed to find this one sniper on any one square on this entire board? Find him and shoot him twice? Well, find him and shoot him twice or prevent him from accomplishing his goal for long enough.” How am I supposed to guess, Aubrey? I have no idea. It feels a lot like when my friend Aubrey will text me to say ‘Guess what’ without any other context. You’re invisible, death in the night, you’re Batman.” You’re the hero, and everyone else is trying to stop you. “Being the sniper feels…” I search for the word. “Yes, but not in the direction you’d think.” Do you think you dislike it because of a feeling of unfairness?” “We’ve talked quite a bit about fairness and how important that is to you. “Nine against one sounds like tough odds for the one.” She shifts her legs and raises her hand up to her chin. Each squad also has a commander, who has a special ability you can use twice during the game.” The sniper can’t move through squares that Germans are in, so if you’re smart about it, you can make it very hard for him to get anywhere. “There are three squads, each with three soldiers, and you can do two things with each squad per turn. The Germans, meanwhile, are trying to find the sniper.” “Most of what you’re trying to do as the sniper is reach whichever two spaces you draw from the objective deck during setup. I sip some of the orange juice, and center it again. Shooting is a huge risk, actually, You’re really only meant to do it if circumstances demand it.” I suppose there could be a deck of cards you reveal with each successful snipe, with some sort of horrid illustration on it, but that’s really not the vibe. Fortunately, it’s hard to carry that sort of thing over to a board game. The briefest of shadows crosses her face. “Oh! I think my daughter has played that,” she interjects. “The hidden player has some sort of goal to accomplish. I center my glass of orange juice on the coaster before continuing. Everyone else is out on the board like normal.” “Usually you have a miniature version of the board and a dry erase marker, maybe a chart. ![]() “Unseen? Do the other players have their eyes closed, or…” “One player moves around the board in secret, unseen, while everyone else is trying to find them.” “We don’t have to talk about this,” I say. Weschler asks through an unintended sigh. Including Deathmatch, Distance King, Dogtag Harvest and Capture the Flag.I would probably get a good amount of mileage out of talking to a therapist about why I don’t like hidden movement games.
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