Tiger Leader

I'd grown tired of video games and wanted to play a board game. I saw this on YouTube and bought it. I am enjoying playing this game very much even though it's beaten me several times. I don't play board games but I found this game to be easy to learn and play. The rule book is great and there are several YouTube videos that also help to fill in gaps. I just bought this game and there are not any missing pieces (like the second comments said). The only items I've added are extra stat sheets to track my commanders and 3 d10 dice just to pick up the pace of the game.It is a solitary board game. I'm enjoying this game so much I plan to buy a couple of more DVG solitary games, then who knows...maybe join a gaming club.

In Tiger Leader, a player creates and commands a combined arms German World War II Kampfgruppe. Starting with choosing a campaign (out of 9 ranging from the 1939 invasion of Poland to the final days of Berlin in 1945) and objective, players build their KG by using “Special Option” points to pick specific types of units available in the campaign time period. Units include infantry, armor, and artillery and range from Panzer I to King Tigers. Each command has cards representing six skill levels from recruit to ace.Your enemy, played by the game system since this is a solitaire game, is represented by battalion cards. Your goal is to gain victory points by reducing or destroying as many enemy battalions as you can with the force that you have in the time allotted by the campaign you’re playing.Each week of the campaign, you’ll assign units and commanders to attack specific enemy battalions. Then you setup a battle, including special conditions and events and a small board created from randomly drawn terrain hexes that can be used to create desert, European or winter landscapes. Units are represented by counters on the board. Battle turns then play out the action as the game’s AI uses the allied units to move and attack while you counter with your German units which may be damaged or stressed, decreasing performance.After each week, your units and commanders have a chance for repair and recreation as well as spending experience points to improve before the next week’s assignments.With so many campaigns, objectives, enemy battalions, units and commanders, each campaign may be highly varied which gives this solitaire game high replay ability. The artwork on the numerous cards and the level of detail give the game a good “feel” for commanding your force and it’s easy to gain stress yourself over your favorite commander being wounded or killed.The tactical battle game is very simplified. There are few differences between units of different enemy nationalities. And allied units of the same type within a single nationality are classified the same (a tank is a tank) though they may sometimes be modified in different campaigns.The AI is very random and sometimes feels like it’s not making the best move. Specific questions have arisen concerning details within the game rules and there is word that DVG is preparing errata and/or an expansion to improve the rules and the tactical game.Overall, this is a fitting addition to DVG’s Leader series. The campaign concept and creating and managing your Kampfgruppe provides an interesting challenge. Unfortunately the tactical system seems very light and sometimes confusing. With rules being discussed in online forums and hopefully being changed and improved, I wish I had waited for a revised edition.

Beware before buying. Like many Dan Verssen Games, this was a kickstarter product. Since customers had to ante up money to manufacture the game, it was rushed into production. In my opinion, this is never good for the gaming industry because sophisticated games should be thoroughly play-tested. Tiger Leader was not, and the people who paid for this game were cheated. After the game's initial release, DVG realized all the mistakes built into the system. On their website, DVG has published all the errata and rules revisions and new cards and counters. The problem is that you have to print these out and mount them on card stock, which is an expensive pain. DVG keeps making promises that they'll make this revised set available to those who already paid for the game (for the price of S&H only), but they've produced nothing. Now they say they'll make it available with Sherman Tank Leader, another kickstarter game you'll be forced to buy to get the update. I sold mine online. No more DVG for me. Do it right the first time. Don't rush it and don't waste my money.

Great gaming system for solitary play,the shiping of it was awful the box was smashed I had to tape it,and won't last for the life of the game I'm sure