About this game
The Battle Game of the World Great Powers offers an unusual Japanese perspective on WWI. Designed by Noburo Sato, it takes a metaphysical approach to the Great War. There are eight player nations: Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Japan, Italy and the United States. Each has four pieces representing Armaments, Economy, Morals and Knowledge. The goal is to get all four pieces to the center of the board, which represents the Ideal State.
Mechanism
Roll and Move
Rules
In play, it resembles Parcheesi, but for twice as many players. Each piece starts from the owning country’s corner space and proceeds by single die roll clockwise around the track of blue squares to its home track toward the center. A piece landing on a rival sends it back to start. If a third country then lands on the same space, the second country’s piece goes back to start. However, the first country then gets a die roll, and on a 1 returns to the space and banishing the third player's piece.
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