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My review and commentary of Votes for Women - A game where players are fighting for (or against) the passage of the 19th Amendment to secure Women's Suffrage.
Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/culblu
00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Overview of game
02:40 - Setup
12:16 - Clarification of turn vs round
14:00 - Overview of a Turn and goals
17:22 - Influence cube explanation
19:00 - Turn 1 - Planning Phase
19:20 - Turn 1 - Strategy Phase
24:37 - Turn 1 - Operation Phase (Round 1 - Suffragist turn)
30:12 - T1 R1 - Oppobot turn
33:32 - T1 R2
34:44 - T1 R3
40:32 - T1 R4
43:40 - T1 R5
46:41 - Things that I like
57:18 - Things I didn't like
1:04:30 - Historical presentation
1:10:16 - History in boardgame mechanics
1:12:15 - Question - Does game address racial disparity of passage of suffrage?
1:18:40 - Inspiring conversations
1:20:23 - My rating of the game
1:23:52 - Comparing to Shores of Tripoli
1:25:30 - Summing things up and outro
Mainly reviews and playthroughs. Votes for Women is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 26 reviews, 13 how-to-play guides, 23 recorded sessions, 10 unboxings, and 11 other videos.
1 - 4 players
60 - 75 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About Votes for Women, from BoardGameGeek:
Votes for Women is a card-driven game covering the American women's suffrage movement from 1848-1920, culminating with the ratification (or rejection) of the Nineteenth Amendment. The game provides competitive, co-operative and solitaire play, with co-operative and solitaire play against the "Oppobot."
To win, the Suffragist player must have Congress pass the proposed Amendment and then have three-fourths of the states (36 of the then 48 states) ratify the Amendment. The Opposition player wins by either preventing Congress from passing the proposed Amendment or by having 13 states reject the Amendment.
The game lasts for six turns - a turn consisting of drawing cards from the players' own decks, bidding on strategy cards, and then six rounds of card play where a player may play a card for an event or discard a card to campaign, organize or lobby Congress. If Congress has proposed the Amendment but neither 36 states have ratified nor 13 states have rejected, then the game goes to Final Voting.