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Area-Impulse

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Games using
Median complexity
0–5
Median rating
bayes
Tabletop fit
weight-controlled

Definition

From BoardGameGeek

Players subdivide turns into impulses alternating between players which repeat until both players pass (or in some cases a sunset die roll ends the impulses catching one or both players off guard). In those impulses a group of units is once activated or gets to act collectively before being marked spent.

Top games using this mechanism

By BGG bayes rating, top 50.

GameYearRatingWtTime
Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition#720178.224.4480m
Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy#2220207.963.7200m
Twilight Imperium: Third Edition#15020057.464.3240m
Rumble Nation#115120176.581.840m
Warhammer 40,000: Conquest#128520146.523.160m
Breakout: Normandy#237119926.163.4240m
Storm Over Arnhem#341719815.962.9300m
Turning Point: Stalingrad#372619895.923.31800m
After the Flood#393920085.893.7180m
Storm Over Stalingrad#426420065.852.2180m
Thunder at Cassino#548319875.753.1360m
Steel Wolves: Germany's Submarine Campaign Against British & Allied Shipping – Vol 1 1939-43#628520105.704.09000m
Monty's Gamble: Market Garden#655720035.693.2180m
Storm Over Dien Bien Phu#667920145.682.6180m
Stalingrad: Inferno on the Volga#676020185.682.360m
Circus Imperium#771019885.642.1120m
Grand Illusion: Mirage of Glory, 1914#810020045.633.2
Burning Suns#824520135.633.4200m
Gettysburg: Badges of Courage#834820045.623.1180m
Moscow '41#836120165.622.9120m
Not War But Murder#854820075.622.8240m
CrossFire: Rules and Organizations for Company Level WW II Gaming#857619965.622.6120m
Breakthrough: Cambrai#864520115.622.6180m
Waterloo 200#893420155.612.7120m
Roads to Stalingrad: Campaign Commander Series#900520095.612.5180m
Storm Over Normandy#964820155.592.2180m
Pacific Fury: Guadalcanal, 1942#980220155.592.5120m
Operation Battleaxe: Wavell vs. Rommel, 1941#982920135.592.4120m
World War II: Pacific Theater of Operations#1011919915.594.1360m
Tigers in the Mist: Ardennes Offensive#1013519995.592.6300m
Last Battle: Ie Shima, 1945#1028520155.582.2120m
Race to Berlin#1043320155.582.8150m
Coral Sea: Campaign Commander Series#1052220105.582.6180m
The Siege of Orgun: Afghanistan, 1983#1054120155.582.7120m
Stalingrad: Verdun on the Volga#1099220165.572.7180m
Bloody Monday#1128620175.573.0120m
Iwo Jima: Rage Against the Marines#1153920085.572.2120m
Caesar's Gallic War#1168020095.572.4180m
The Hunt for Red October#1176519885.562.560m
Deathride: Mars-la-Tour 1870#1186120085.562.5180m
Eagles of the Empire: Preussisch-Eylau#1192719995.562.7180m
Circle of Fire: The Siege of Cholm, 1942#1250020145.562.3240m
Shiloh: April Glory#1253920105.562.5180m
Vampyre#1256119815.561.545m
Borodino: Napoleon in Russia, 1812#1266420125.552.3210m
Days of Decision III: Global Political Conflict – 1936-1946#1273820045.554.2360m
Syracuse: 415-413 avant J.-C.#1275320125.552.1120m
Race for Berlin: The Final Struggle#1287420105.552.5180m
What Price Glory?#1301920135.552.1240m
Conflict of Alliances: Warring States#1356620115.552.560m

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