(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...
Blitzkrieg `41 is a two-player strategic level wargame of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The game includes a 20 page rulebook, 200 counters, and a 22" x 34" mapsheet which contains a map plus charts and tables for both players. Victory conditions are quite extensive (over a page of rules) and, because of the great number of draws that the...
Really small hex and counter wargame, by Lou Coatney. Corps to army Level, with British 1st Armoured Division thrown in. Succinct air rules. Incentive for British evacuation, should the French collapse. }:-) From the Designer's Notes: I should mention right here that I used the map and infantry strengths of my previous game, France 1914, as a basis for...
Blitzkrieg Challenged: The Battle of Dinant: May 12-15, 1940, is an introductory level game of the battle between the French Armed forces and Germany’s Wehrmacht on May 12th through 15th, 1940. The Germans launched Operation Yellow, the invasion of France and the Low Countries, on May 10, 1940. The German’s 5th Panzer Corps drove the Belgian and French...
Blitzkrieg Checked: The Battle of Gembloux: May 14-15, 1940, is an introductory level game of the battle between the French Armed forces and Germany’s Wehrmacht on May 14th and 15th, 1940. The Germans launched Operation Yellow, the invasion of France and the Low Countries, on May 10, 1940. The German vanguard of General Hoepner's XVI Coprs ran head-on into...
Blitzkrieg Deluxe is a "generic" World War 2 era wargame that pits two fictional nations against each other over a fictional land mass represented by a huge 34 by 55 inch map. The game is easy to learn with the rules clocking in at under sixeteen pages, but difficult to master as the options available to each player are numerous. Do you mass your assault...
Issue game of old Game Journal 54. Designed by Masayoshi Imura. Covers the blitzkrieg in France in 1940. The game uses chit-pull activation system. 1 map 180 counters 16 cards You must prepare a die. The article by Jun Tajima covers the 11 1940 blitzkrieg games and categorizes these into 4 groups. This article is very interesting and must read for gamers...
(from the back of the box:) Blitzkrieg in the South is the first in the East Front Battles series, a series which will cover the whole of the Russo-German front in World War II. Ground Scale is 5 miles to the hex, turns represent 2 days of real time, units represent division, brigades, regiments, or battalions. The game covers the Axis assault on the...
Blitzkrieg in the West was designed by Joseph Miranda. It is the first in our new series of “Blitzkrieg Campaigns”, two player wargames covering the great mobile campaigns of World War II. Blitzkrieg in the West puts you in command of either the German armed forces, or the Allies, during the epic campaign for the Low Countries and France in 1940. The...
The Blitzkrieg Legend simulates Case Yellow, the German offensive in May of 1940 that shocked the world. In less than a month's time it made quick work of Belgium and Holland, shattered the armies of France, and pushed the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) into the sea at Dunkirk. This twelfth game in the Operational Combat Series (OCS) game from Multi-Man...