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334 points musha68k | 4 comments | | HN request time: 0.547s | source
1. billfruit ◴[] No.41901162[source]
So many comments, but hardly any mention of how good/worthwhile it is.
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2. Tempat ◴[] No.41901625[source]
It’s only just come out, not many have played it yet.
3. ◴[] No.41901951[source]
4. tmountain ◴[] No.41902940[source]
The SPACE-BIFF review gives some context: "Is GHQ a good game? Sure. For its time. For its place. Had it appeared in 1956, it may well have become the third great checkerboard game. With its zones of control and special units, it might have helped shape the coming century’s approach to tabletop gaming.

But that isn’t what happened. In our time and place, GHQ is a serviceable game. It suffers from the same endgame as many modern abstracts, packed with fiddly little moves that amount to very little. We would write that it could have used a good developer. But that doesn’t really matter."

https://spacebiff.com/2024/09/25/ghq/