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Fleets 2025: East China Sea

Players

2

Time

?-?

Age

12+

Weight

1.89

Rating

6.84

Fit

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

The game has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players need to frequently pay attention to and react to each other's strategies and turns. However, there is less emphasis on cooperation as players primarily compete against each other.

Replay value

Fleets 2025: East China Sea has a high replayability score of 7.95 out of 10. With its variability in gameboard, expansions, strategic depth, and scalability, players can expect fresh and engaging experiences each time they play. The game offers multiple paths to victory, allowing players to discover new tactics and strategies. The player interaction score is also favorable, promoting engagement and competition among players. While the game may have a moderate learning curve, it offers a rewarding and immersive gameplay experience.

Luck profile

The final luck score for Fleets 2025: East China Sea is 7, indicating a moderate level of luck in the game. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome, allowing for some strategic decisions to influence the outcome. Players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. Overall, the game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.

Overview

Publisher blurb: 'With the sailing of FLEETS 2025: East China Sea, Victory Point Games launches you on a Chris Taylor designed blue water adventure of high-stakes ‘political poker’ centered on daring air and naval engagements between the modern fleets of the United States and China as the Taiwanese flash point of the East China Sea ignites into a crisis on the brink of spinning out of control. Here, player nerve and skill are required to hunt the opposing forces and inflict sufficient military damage to break their political will and get them to “blink first” and back down! In this low-to-moderate complexity wargame, the great concerns of modern naval warfare are handled with fine design elegance to highlight the asymmetrical forces, systems and tactics used by both sides through the lethality of modern weaponry. With deep strategic puzzles and wild military and political action simulated by the simple use of fast-action card play and lots of dice, FLEETS 2025: East China Sea is a nautical thrill-ride through tomorrow’s headlines for budding Admirals. Ages: Ages 12 and up Complexity: 4 out of 9 Solitaire Suitability: 1.5 out of 9 Scale: Each unit is 1-2 major ships & escorts or 1-3 squadrons of planes; each turn half a day. Game Components: • 5 pages of color Rules: Basic and Admiral Level; 2 pages color Example of Play; 1 page of Notes • 1 page of Scenarios • 80 color, die-cut 5/8” two-sided game pieces • 60 ‘Activity’ cards • One 11” x 17” color game map • 2 Player Aid Sheets' Buy Microbadge

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Credits

Designers

1
Chris Taylor (I)

Artists

1
Alan Emrich

Publishers

1
Victory Point Games

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