MacGowan & Lombardy's The Great War Card Game Expanded 2nd Edition by Lombardy Studios

 

MacGowan & Lombardy's The Great War Card Game

Expanded 2nd Edition

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Lombardy Studios

Kyle Cisco, a colleague and friend who owns Iron Raven Editing, is helping me with a Kickstarter campaign for second, expanded editions of MacGowan & Lombardy's The Great War card game and the four World War One minigames I originally designed for the 2014-2018 centennial. You can see more here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2030222759/world-war-one-legacy-collection

This Kickstarter’s purpose is to raise funds to publish second, expanded editions (v2) of five World War One games originally created for the centennial commemoration events in 2014-2018. All of these games can be played solitaire as well as by 2-players.

If you have the original 2021 edition of the card game MacGowan & Lombardy’s The Great War (TGW) you can still use those playing cards with the v2 rules which will be a free download after the crowdfunding campaign ends. You can read more about the original card game development and view the 2021 game art, rules, etc., here: https://lombardystudios.com/2020/09/13/macgowan-and-lombardys-the-great-war-card-game

Briefly, each card has a value or "battle points" shown in a circle on that card. There are also icons that indicate whether a card can be used to attack (arrow), or cancel an enemy card (X), or be added to other cards (+) such as Observation Balloons added to artillery – a "force multiplier" in today's military terms. 

The expanded v2 games include revised rules for faster learning, larger card art that includes historical context for the cards, and a totally new illustrated historical guidebook about the war. Other World War One collectibles listed below are available as pledge levels or add-ons.

The second edition of MacGowan and Lombardy's The Great War (TGW2) card game features large tarot-size cards compared to the original 2021 poker-size cards. If you bought the first edition of TGW you can still play the v2 game using the original 2021 cards. The new second edition rules are simpler and can be downloaded for FREE when they are posted after this Kickstarter campaign ends.

 This is a YT video on how to play:

Kickstarter WW1 card game 102720

There are also links to a good number of books available.

Aviation Flight Badges of World War One

4-volume series of oversize hard cover books 9-inches x 11-inches

1,512 pages total with nearly 2,000 full-color photos and other images

Allied Volumes 1 and 2 

First time in English for the Allied books describing details about the Serbian, Japanese, and several other air services of France, Russia, Great Britain, and America. 

Limited print run

Central Powers Volumes 1 and 2

Germany, Austro-Hungry, Bulgaria, Ottoman Turk