The Last Gamble: The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 – Designer Signature Edition recommended_For 7 or moreThe Last Gamble, Designer Signature Edition is Danny Parker's final effort to create a memorable game on the Battle of the Bulge. The scale is conventional: 2 miles per hex, battalions and regimental units; two turns per day. However, the game has many innovations never before seen. Day and night turns differ dramatically both with respect to movement and the likelihood of decisive combat. All units are rated for Morale which can often be more
a sturdy 3-panel Game Master screen
7 medal/specialist cards
so that they can continue to quickly secure lucrative contracts and pay the upkeep on their ship and their cyber- and viroware enhancements
you play on a tight map containing only twenty cities in nine provinces (one with only a single city)
Their armor gleams in the noonday sun
find one another
hellbore cannons
Without you
providing players and Narrators alike the tools needed to tell stories using the city as a focus
players bid against each other to acquire the various trappings of wealth (positive-number and multiplier cards) while avoiding its pitfalls (negative number and divisor cards)
route after route
Twisted creatures