Behind the Trenches (Demo)

WW1-Resource Management-Deck Builder

Behindthetrenches.com

Board game currently on gamefound:  https://gamefound.com/en/projects/f1fighterpilot/behind-the-trenches

By no means perfect or done, this page acts as a practice trainer for the board game.  I would like to dedicate this game to procrastination. Without which, I would just written a physical rule book to explain the game.

TLDR: Push the front line into your opponents HQ; regardless of the human cost.

BtT consists of 3 Phases

Battle Phase: 

Deal 5 cards from the unclaimed deck (65 card deck to begin the game). Use numbered dog tags to fight over cards against your opponent. The player with the highest accumulated score adds that card to their discard pile. 

Country Phase: 

Each country gains a unique set of resources, has a few unique processes like building a trench or turning one resource into another. Most importantly it's where you build your guns and train your troops (IE adding a basic infantry card to your discard pile).

War Phase:

Remember all those cards we put in the discard pile?  Shuffle them and form a deck.  Now draw 4. Take turns with your opponent playing one card at a time to gain resources, dig trenches, bombard enemy entrenchments, and push the front line forward using human wave attacks.

Once both players hands are empty, players check their decks. 

• If both players have at least one card, they both draw another 4 cards (or at least attempt to draw 4 more cards)
• If either player's deck has 0 cards, the war phase ends and a new battle phase begins. 

This continues until the front line is pushed into a players HQ.

The  deck is made up of 71 cards.
30 Resource Cards 
   8 food, 8 wood, 8 coal, 6 oil
10 Logistics Cards
   4 Railroad, 4 horse transport, and 2 truck transports
16 Battle Cards
   5 dig in, 5 bombardment, 2 cut comms, 2 embargo, 2 gas attack
15 Processing Cards:
   5 ammunition plant, 5 equipment manufacturing, 5 metals processing

Each player starts with 1 basic infantry, 1 ammunition plant, 1 equipment manufacturing, and 1 metals processing.

Future update goals:
Music and sound effects (already chosen and downloaded but need to be an .oof file to work via itch.io. Who knew?)
Country walkthrough updates
Bug fixes


Behind the Trenches will release online multiplayer for the digital 28June26