A hex-and-counter game covering this most decisive Russian Front battle, 30Sep41-31Jan42 in 8 semi-monthly turns at 20 miles - 32 kilometers - per hex and basically corps to army scale. Map scale is same as for SPI's now classic War in Europe. German operational intelligence limited by Russian maskirova/deception pieces. 4 especially strong panzer...
Moscow Attacked is one of Lou Coatney's various FREE Games available on his site as per his guidelines, dealing with the German's attempts to wrest the Soviet Capital away, before the onset of Winter during 1941. It appears to be more detailed than the previously released FREE Game of "Battle for Moscow" by GDW and he urges folks to get them BOTH and...
This is a 'what if' game simulating the first 30 days fighting that could occur in the Russian ethnic heartland if that nation's current experiment with capitalism and "democracy" fails. Though the game does allow for the accidental or terrorist detonation of individual nuclear weapons, it does not simulate the possiblity of a new Russian Civil War...
The Moscow Campaign; Strike and Counterstrike Russia, 1941, is the successor to SPI's earlier treatment of roughly the same events, The Battle of Moscow (originally published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #24). The Moscow Campaign covers the final German drives on the Russian capital and the first Soviet counteroffensive. The scale is 6 miles per hex and...
This mini - even micro - game has just the 6 German armies/panzergruppen and 9 Russian army and front units, plus 2 air units for each side. 3 hexes from Smolensk to Moscow. Uses Dark Crusade's, Tiger Attack's, and Darkest Crusade's simple firing point/hit system. 20-day turns as in Moscow Defended! Blitzkrieg. Siberians. A half-hour-lunch game, FREE to...
(from the introduction:) The Moscow Option: Guderian's Gambit is a simulation of the fighting that could have taken place between Smolensk and Moscow during the first half of August 1941 if Hitler had decided to concentrate his eastern armies' supply in order to allow the mechanized forces of Army Group Center to make the 150 miles to the Soviet capital...
A small-scale (9 hexes from Smolensk to Moscow, 27mis/43kms per hex) Battle of Moscow game, MvB41 has 32 Russian and 22 German corps-to-army-level units, and takes 2-3 hours to play 8 half-month turns (or less, if Moscow is taken). MvB41 draws on many design concepts and much research from my other games, including and especially from my new division level...