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MolochAlter@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoGwent is actually a slight hack of an existing board game called Condottiere, which is IMO the better game.
who@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
This one?
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/112/condottiere
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yep. I played an earlier version but it’s the same game.
The key thing that made me notice was the scarecrow cards that allowed you to pick up your units, those make sense in Condottiere as it’s divided in rounds where you fight multiple battles, so it made sense to pick up your units if you had excess power and were winning anyway, save your strength for the next battle in the round, whereas it made a lot less sense in Gwent given its 1v1 nature and fixed amount of rounds.
Mind you Gwent evolved a lot afterwards, I don’t know much beyond the witcher 3 version, which I still enjoyed plenty.