Sabotage

neutral repell card

" No Man's Land"

"No man's land is land that is unoccupied or is under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied due to fear or uncertainty."

Scorched Earth is the best, IMO, since it is historically accurate. Scorch would be okay. Even the word 'Sabotage' would be a good one, IMO. This latter implies that the more armies you put into the sabotage effort, the bigger the effect, although 'scorched earth' could easily have that connotation, too.

Interestingly enough, if you simply switch the names of the two existing cards, I think that would actually be an improvement:

Blockade -> Abandon (it happens at the end of the turn, which seems like how 'abandoning' a territory should happen)

Abandon -> Blockade (Blockades are often emergency procedures, and something you intend your enemies to run up against, hence should occur at beginning of turn)

However, I would still prefer that Abandon -> Scorch or Sabotage, rather than Blockade.

The card that represents a real blockade, IMO, is the Reinforce card.

Other possible names: Ruin (fits more historical times), Burn, Raze, Torch (instead of Scorch), Wreck, Spoil or Despoil, Destroy?, Vandalize, Fuck Over, Sack, Char, Waste or Lay Waste (instead of Wasteland), Ravage, Ransack?, Pillage?, Trash, Neutralize, Desolate or Desolation, Undermine (instead of Minefield), Obstruct, Block (if Blockade also renamed).

I kinda like Obstruct, actually. But Ruin is pretty darn good too. Waste/Lay Waste isn't bad.

Way back it was mentioned just to change the name to fortified abandon.

I still think this is the best suggestion because you are abandoning the territory with a possibility of taking it back later in the game (or your opponent taking it). The blockade card is just that, a blockade, where when played successfully, opponents should have to go around it, not through it as they might do with a fortified abandon.

Chasse la nature, elle retourne en courant.


How about secession ? Your armies create a new country with the locals.

Abandon is actually the same as Blockade (except with different priority). New players get confused sometimes and used it wrong.
So please correct both if you intend to change names.

Suggestion:

Blockade Priority Card
Blockade Delay Card

or

Wasteland Priority Card
Wasteland Delay Card

or

Scorched-Earth Priority Card
Scorched-Earth Delay Card

i like the names but imo as the territory becomes neutral it should explain that ... scorched earth doesnt mean anything blockade indicates it is still under your control....

Blockade Priority Card
Blockade Delay Card

I didn't like these because they sound to formal/cumbersome. But I think they are good at explaining what they do.

I quite like some of wct's suggestions especially "Fuck Over"

Along those lines, how about "Raze" as in "Raze to the ground" ? I quite like that, symbolises loss of control, as well as making the land useless and hard to regain.

EDIT: Somehow I missed wct saying Raze, in which case +1 for Raze :)

Edited 9/3/2015 13:10:04

un peace-maker --- as it has armies on it and tries to stop the battle between 2 nations

The more I think about it, "Mine" or "Minefield" makes sense. It's hard land to take, so multiplicity makes sense (as well as commiting troops/resources to lay it) and no-one has control of it so neutral makes sense (just as hard for the owner of a minefield to clear it again)

Also works well representing a trap if it's attacked that turn.

Partisan card.
Guerilla and Scorched earth are good too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_partisans

Quick Blockade Card

I like the card names as they are. The only challenge is "remembering" when to use each one (which everyone learns pretty quickly).

If necessary, "Blockade" and "Rushed Blockade" would work for me.

But I think Abandon is just fine!

(Edit: "Wasteland" is my second-favourite option, after keeping the names as is.)

Edited 9/3/2015 20:22:11

Burned land card
Like the Russians burned their own lands to stop the Germans in the Second World war. They Germans couldn't get any resourves wich were left behind this way

The My-Ex Wife card? I was willing to give her everything just to get away.




Edited 9/4/2015 16:28:57

^^ lol

Okay, some of the better suggestions I've heard:

• Wasteland card is still my favorite because it makes the most logical sense, you are basically creating a wasteland.
  
• Raze card sounds nice
  
• I didn't like Mine field card at first, but I've grown to like that idea
  
• No Man's Land could work too, but it essentially seems like a wordier form of Wasteland.
  

As for scorched earth, I agree with ps:

scorched earth sounds a bit too magic the gathering :p

It doesn't fit with the warfare-type theme here. You have the reinforcement card, blockade card, airlift card, then the....... the........ the scorched earth card?

What about erection - takes something that use to be smaller and gets HUGE!