Check out Amabel Holland's new game on Frederick the Great. It features blocks, sticks, and a great system for tracking when one side despairs of winning.
***I made a mistake in my playing of this game that affects it substantially. There is ambiguity in the rules on combat. I assumed the defender advanced first, but after hearing from someone who assumed the opposite, I checked with the designer, and I was wrong. The attacker attacks first. All the rest of my description of the game stands, but the combat order was wrong. In turn, it changes how I think about how dangerous combat is. You still need a bigger force than your opponent, but not quite so big as before as the attacker has the advanttage of going first and whittling down the defender a bit before they can respond. This is a new video with the information corrected.***
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