By Jove!
This has been Hunted Cow’s Summer of Licensing Love. The Scottish developers have already lined up partnerships with Victory Point Games and Decision Games to bring their tabletop titles to digital, and they just told me that they’ve got one more hook-up to announce.
Hunted Cow have agreed to bring Dan Verssen Games’ Lightning War series of hobby card games to iOS, Android, and desktops, with the first title arriving in Q2 of 2015. The Lightning War games include five tabletop card games released between 2004 and 2008; four WWII-themed games and a modern “War on Terror” one. Hunted Cow’s deal extends to the entire quintet.
The Lightning War games are quick, low-complexity card games that simulate historical battles. In the D-Day game, for example, there’s five cards in the middle of the table representing the five beaches assaulted in Operation Overlord — each of the two players (Axis vs Allies) has cards marked with historical units that he plays to counter his opponent’s moves and take the beaches. A whole head-to-head match takes less than an hour.
Hunted Cow chief Andrew Mulholland told me that the first release to arrive next spring should be either Lightning: Midway or Lightning: D-Day. This will be DVG’s first return to mobile since Phantom Leader, a game that I really enjoyed back in 2012 despite the amateurish quality of the app.
There’s vanishingly few videos of these games being played on YouTube so after the jump, some chap just takes Lightning: Poland out of its box. And then doesn’t play it for some reason.
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