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Rules assistance for CDG Solo System
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 1 player
- Complexity 1.9/5
Rules assistant for CDG Solo System
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CDG Solo System is an expansion for Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul released in 2022 for 1 player. It was designed by Stuka Joe and Ken Kuhn and its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game.
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About the game
The CDG Solo System is a revised GMT Edition of Stuka Joe's CDG solo method, which streamlines two-handed solitaire gameplay by decreasing turn to turn overhead and maintenance. This method of play increases narrative immersion as the great battles of history unfold on your tabletop. The GMT edition of the CDG Solo System includes professionally printed components, a custom screen-printed die, an official ruleset, and Playsheets for six of GMT’s most popular Card Driven Games. Gameplay Overview The CDG Solo System plays alongside your favorite CDG and is designed to enhance your solitaire experience by reintroducing many of the best parts of wargaming that fall apart in standard two-handed play, namely, as Stuka Joe mentioned above, the narrative flow and the fog of war. The CDG Solo System includes two Card Displays that are used to manage each side’s hand of strategy cards. At the beginning of each Side's turn, you will roll a Fate Die to determine which of the cards in one or more of the slots are available for play. Typically 2 or 3 cards are available at a time, but the final decision is ultimately yours. After a card is played, the marker on the Cards Remaining track slides one spot to the left, and then it’s time to roll the die for the other side’s turn. -description from the publisher
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- GMT Games
Questions and answers
CDG Solo System supports 1 player according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.
CDG Solo System has a complexity rating of 1.9 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a light game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
CDG Solo System belongs to these categories: Wargame and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Solo / Solitaire Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of CDG Solo System are: Stuka Joe and Ken Kuhn. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists CDG Solo System as an expansion for Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul to use it. Check that your edition of Caesar: Rome vs. Gaul is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.