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Type: Game
Complexity: Medium Complexity
Number of Players: 2
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World at War 85 Starter Kit (With Solo Assistant)

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Description
Game Description:
WORLD AT WAR 85 series is a series of games of fast and furious platoon-level combat. Set in 1985, in an alternate history of World War III, when the Warsaw Pact armies storm across the border of East Germany in a powerful attempt to seize West Germany and the whole of Free Europe.

The WORLD AT WAR 85 system features a unique combat system that involves die rolls by both attacking units and defending units, which keeps both players engaged throughout the game. Die rolls are compared and hits applied quickly, as all the information you need to fight your units is on the counters. No combat results table is necessary. The initiative, formation activation, random turn length, and close air support are all smoothly integrated.

Do you ever wish you could try a new game system and make sure it is for you? Well now you can, with our World At War 85 Starter Kit. World At War 85 Starter Kit gives you a chance to play a scenario from our Storming the Gap game. Our games are designed and produced with the new player in mind, and for today’s gamers

Our motto is “Play the Game, Not the Rules” because we understand that the best way to learn a game system is to be shown. We achieve this with our extensive play-list of “boot camp” training videos, available on YouTube, that walk you through the entire system rule by rule. Our game manual comes in a variety of formats for free, these include PDF, EPUB, MP3 (YES Audio) and MP4 Audiobook formats. On top of that, the game the World At War 85 system is very solitaire friendly due to its activation system.

Mod Contents:
WaW 85 Core Rules 2.0;
1 full sheet of NATO (American), Soviet Pact, and Admin Counters;
2 larger high-resolution game maps (maps 2 and 3);
Formation card deck;
Detailed reference charts and TECs;
Solo Assistant including manual, deck, and ref cards;
1 scenario (A Matter of Bridges); and
Some US Army and Soviet background music, miniatures, and battle sounds for some ambience.

Note:
This mod incorporates Mangofeet's (here on TTS) stack exploder mod which allows stacks to be examined with a right click and choosing the explode option. We plan to incorporate this functionality across all LnLP mods if no issues develop.

Links:
Games in this series can be purchased at:
https://store.lnlpublishing.com/series/world-at-war-85-series
A full print version can be purchased at:
https://store.lnlpublishing.com/series/world-at-war-85-series/World%20At%20War%2085%20Starter%20Kit%20v2.0
Solo Assistant can be purchased at:
https://store.lnlpublishing.com/series/world-at-war-85-series/solo-assistant
Living rules:
https://forums.lnlpublishing.com/resources/world-at-war-85-core-rules-pdf-edition.283/
Bootcamp Training Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUdPYZk0bJF2rXi7sCbZgwNGpQEiQsnqR
Game Resources:
https://forums.lnlpublishing.com/resources/categories/world-at-war-85-series.6/
Opponents wnated for VASSAL or TTS:
https://discord.com/invite/DQBhqFx.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LocknLoadPub
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/LnLP
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LnLPub
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClZ6gdcFDfR94LGCmA8Y5Hg
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lnlp
Board Game Geek:
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/288549/world-war-85-starter-kit

Game Credits:
©2019 Lock ’n Load Publishing, LLC. © 2019 Lock 'n Load Publishing, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Lock 'n Load Publishing, LLC., and their Logos are all trademarks of Lock 'n Load Publishing, LLC. All other marks and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Executive Producer: David Heath
Game design: Keith Tracton, Jeff Schulte
Artwork: Blackwell Hird, Marc von Martial, Nuno Castiho
Editior: Hans Horting
Administration: Ava Marie Heath
Customer Support: Darren White
Quality Assurance: Patrick White, Maddie Gale

Why We Do What We Do: We love playing games, as well as designing and developing them. We give praise and thanks to God for blessing us so we can follow our dreams and passions. We also thank you our fans, friends, and family for making this possible for us.

This demo mod is solely owned by Lock n' Load Publishing, who kindly granted permission and advised on its construction.

Please do not modify this in any way and repost it or its components.

Special Thanks:
Many thanks to Tumba, here on TTS, for his marvelous ammo crates and dice tray.
Bravo Zulu to Mangofeet for his awesome Stack Exploder mod and thanks to Caprica55 for pointing it out to me..
Kudos to MadMark56, here on TTS, for his crate skins.
Cheers to Lily, here on TTS, for the ever awesome Kraken table.
Thanks to Baryonyx, here on TTS, for the miniatures.
Gratz to all Board Game Geek members for their continued efforts to provide images and resources to aid us in our TTS endevours.

Notes:
If you like this mod then please remember to rate it or even add it to you favourites list. This kind of support will go a long way towards providing additional mods in the near future.

For more of my mods please see:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198001792274/myworkshopfiles/

Enjoy and please comment if you have any questions or concerns regarding the mod.

18 Comments
Richthofen56  [author] Jul 4, 2020 @ 11:49am 
Hey, we try to keep Canadians happy right (Kawartha Lakes ONT here). I'll see if I can get a fresh PDF to solve that issue. Its frustrating. I've added 2 new mods for the two separate solo kits you can use to bring into any of the existing games. Instructions on the table. Eventually, they'll be in all the mods as I get to putting them in. So many mods, so many BBQs, so little time :)
TheSovietOnion Jul 4, 2020 @ 8:59am 
Thanks for adding the solo play module! The slow PDF speed is an interesting issue, but I still appreciate having it!
Richthofen56  [author] Jul 4, 2020 @ 5:06am 
Ya that is a bit weird and I'm getting the same effect. Still usable but just slower than normal. I tried re-uploading the PDF but same result. I'll investigate further.
thomasew2001 Jul 4, 2020 @ 4:25am 
Hi,

Thanks for adding the Solo Assistant .. :)

Any idea why paging thru the Solo Manual is so painfully slow?, .. even with Mod Caching on.

Every load of the Module, requires that you painfully step thru the Solo Manual, just to ensure that every page is cached, to enable quicker browsing etc..

Paging thru the 144 page WaW'85 rulebook is almost instantaneous.

Regards

Cheers
Tom
Richthofen56  [author] Jun 27, 2020 @ 2:32pm 
You might want to take that to a LnLP site for the best answer. Both FB and BGG have a pretty fast response time on rule related questions. This really isn't the forum for it.
TheSovietOnion Jun 27, 2020 @ 1:55pm 
This rocks!

Game question: The Soviets have initiative and enter the board on or later than turn 1. How does the leadership & command step function on that first activation? There are no Soviet units on the table, so nothing is in or out of command. Does the Soviet player assign the HQ to a unit prior to deployment?
Richthofen56  [author] Jun 14, 2020 @ 4:42pm 
Fixed Tom. Thanks.
thomasew2001 Jun 14, 2020 @ 4:35pm 
Hi,

Thanks for sorting the Map out .. :)

The default TURN marker seems to be missing in the latest update, .. in an earlier version it was already positioned on the TURN TRACK, and thus, .. not in the ADMIN Counter crate.

The T+1 and T+10 markers are in there, .. but, I'm not sure what they are to be used for, .. yet.


Best Regards
Tom
Richthofen56  [author] Jun 14, 2020 @ 3:19pm 
New map 2 uploaded.
thomasew2001 Jun 14, 2020 @ 8:19am 
Ah ok .. Thanks .. :)