Bloodtree Rebellion
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 Artwork by Stephen Fabian, 1979 | |
| Publishers | Game Designers' Workshop |
|---|---|
| Years active | 1979 |
| Genres | Board wargame |
Bloodtree Rebellion, subtitled "Guerilla Warfare on the Planet Somber", is a science fiction board wargame published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) in 1979. The game started as a guierilla wargame based on the Vietnam War, but was changed to a science fiction theme due to the social and political divide over the war in the United States.
Components
Bloodtree Rebellion is a two-player game involving guerilla warfare on the planet of Somber.[1] On one side, the Mykin military controls the planet with an iron fist and a vast array of weapons. On the other side, humans — and eventually indigenous aliens — rebel against the Mykin in a series of hit-and-run city raids. After one such raid, the rebels flee into the Bloodtree Forest to escape from Mykin retaliation, and the game devolves into a Vietnam War-style of combat, with the technologically superior Mykin seeking out the rebels in the jungle.[2]
The game box holds:
- 22" x 28" paper hex grid map scaled at 5 km (3.1 mi) per hex
- three city maps
- 480 counters
- rule book