Postcard Murmansk
(2024)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 10 and up. You can play with 2 to 2 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Force Commitment, Hidden Movement, Pick-up and Deliver, Secret Unit Deployment, Simulation, Single Loser Game und Variable Phase Order...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 120 |
| Minimum age: | 10 |
| Number of players: | 2 |
| Publisher: | (Web published) |
| Designers: | Lou Coatney |
| Artists: | Lou Coatney |
| Mechanics: | Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Force Commitment, Hidden Movement, Pick-up and Deliver, Secret Unit Deployment, Simulation, Single Loser Game, Variable Phase Order |
VERY simple little diminuation of Murmansk Run: Arctic Convoys to Russia, triggered by the Norwegian film KONVOI to be released in the US as The Arctic Convoy. The star of the film, SS Hestmanden/Horseman exists, docked down at Norway's Merchant Sailors' Museum in Løvika near Kristiansand.
Can be played solitaire by random contact/combat selection of the hidden groups. Can also be used to quickly set up naval miniatures battle scenarios.
"Enigma" codebreaking gives the Allies an advantage against German surface ships trying to sail north from Wilhelmshaven ... or south.
12 seasonal turns. Area movement and combat phases within those. If both players wish, you can play the first 6 turns, needing 4 or more VPs to win. The first years were crucial.
Surface ships - Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, ... the usual suspects - aircraft, and u-boats (and Russian subs) ... and freighters. No air ops in winter, of course.
Surface warships can be damaged before sunk. Subs, freighters, aircraft destroyed outright but replaceable.
—description from designer
Alternative names:
Postcard Murmansk
Last Updated: 2025-08-31 04:13:12 UTC
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