The Russian Campaign, 1941-45 After spectacular success in the West, Germany and its Axis partners turned East in June 1941 and launched the greatest land invasion in history against the Soviet Union. The goal of Operation Barbarossa was to decisively defeat the Soviet Union in a short lightning campaign before the onset of winter. During the early stages...
Blitzkrieg is one of Avalon Hill's earlier releases, and is a classic hex and counter board game. The game is a fictional representation of the breakout of World War II. Five minor countries become engulfed in a tremendous conflict for territory waged by Great Blue and Big Red, the major antagonists. Units represented are infantry, airborne, rangers...
Published in Strategy & Tactics magazine#19. (from the rulebook:) "This BLITZKRIEG revision was designed by James F. Dunnigan (who has never played this game) and put into an understandable format by Redmond Simonsen (who has played the game frequently). Mr. Dunnigan’s ideas and Mr. Simonsen’s organizational talents) became so intermingled by the time the...
The Nippon Expansion adds a new challenge to Blitzkrieg! What if the Axis coalition had won World War Two, and Germany invaded and occupied the United States of America? And … what if Japan then turned on its former ally and invaded German-held America? With the help of Godzilla? The Nippon Expansion explores this hypothetical scenario! One player controls...
Blitzkrieg 1939: Hoepner (or Blitzkrieg 1939 II) is the second game in the "Blitzkrieg 1939" mini-series. It simulates battles during the German invasion of Poland, September, 1939, between Polish defenders and the German XVI Corps commanded by Erich Hoepner. The following battles are included: Mokra Piotrków Trybunalski Tomaszów Mazowiecki Sochaczew...
(from the rulebook:) Blitzkrieg 1940 is a two-player simulation of the decisive first three weeks of the campaign fought across the Low Countries and northeastern France during May of that year. The Allied player, primarily on the defensive, controls French, British, Belgian and Dutch forces, and is opposed by the invading German player, who commands units...
First edition: It is a development of the game system that appeared in VV #7, Abbeville 1940 and covers two other battles in the 1940 campaign, Hannut and Stonne. Both maps together take up one standard Vae Victis map. As with all Vae Victis games, counters need to be mounted and cut apart prior to play. Vae Victis issue 63. VV #63 also includes an ASL...