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The Seven Years War: Frederick's Gamble
Designed by Mark McLaughlin, Greg Ticer
Published by GMT Games
Casual Flow: 15 Min Teach
Players
2-4
Community Snapshot
Best with 4
Medium-Light complexity
~360 min
8.3 on BGG (6)
Text-heavy
Categories
Designed for 4 players and playable in ~360 min, The Seven Years War: Frederick's Gamble delivers a medium-light experience that earned a 0.0 on BGG.
How It Plays
Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Special cards trigger events and drive the action forward — each card played can shift the whole narrative.
Dice Rolling
You roll dice to determine outcomes — there's always that thrilling moment of suspense before they land!
Hand Management
You have a hand of cards and deciding which to play, save, or discard is the core puzzle.
Point to Point Movement
You move between connected locations on the board — the map's layout decides your travel options.
About This Game
The Seven Years War: Frederick's Gamble (7YW:FG) is a wargame based on the innovative and still ever popular card driven game engine The Napoleonic Wars (TNW). If you’re familiar with TNW or its successor games, Wellington and/or Kutuzov; you’ll have little difficulty getting into enjoying this game. The game’s title stems from Frederick the Great, King of Prussia’s 1756 land grab of the independent central European State of Saxony, right on his arch-rival Imperial Austria’s doorstep.…
Source: BoardGameGeek
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