Barbarossa Brief, 1941
2021 • 2-4 Players • Age 0+
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 0 and up. You can play with 2 to 4 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Dice Rolling, Hexagon Grid, Push Your Luck, Ratio / Combat Results Table, Secret Unit Deployment, Simulation, Solo / Solitaire Game und Variable Phase Order...
Game Data
- Average time to play
- 45 Minutes
- Minimum age
- 0+
- Number of players
- 2 - 4
- Publisher
- (Self-Published)
- Designers
- Lou Coatney
- Artists
- Lou Coatney
- Mechanics
- Dice Rolling, Hexagon Grid, Push Your Luck, Ratio / Combat Results Table, Secret Unit Deployment, Simulation, Solo / Solitaire Game, Variable Phase Order
Brief as in both speed of play and File or Case or ... Dossier. :)
VERY small footprint Barbarossa game. Like Philip Sabin's classic Eastern Front, only **3** hexes from Warsaw to Moscow, although a different configuration of those.
4 2-month turns, basic hex and counter dice-resolved combat odds system. But lots of combat options including Pressed Attack, No Retreat! - isn't there a game by that name? :) - Siberian Reserve Gamble, etc. NO Zones of Control.
Playing time: est. 40 minutes.
Germans: 3 army groups, 1+1 infantry armies, 4 panzer groups, 2+1 panzerkorps. Romanian army group. Russians: 10 infantry fronts, 4 operational tank groups, the Siberians. +3 Russian tank factories (in Leningrad, Kharkov, and Stalingrad). So 31 pieces total.
Unlike in Phil Sabin's Eastern Front, rivers and hills/mountains *are* specified. At such a small scale, the Sea of Azov had to be tortured to fit, but all the surrounding areas/hexes relate properly, so .... (It *could* be done ... sort of ... Phil! :) )
Very adaptable to fast, easy solitaire play, as obviously as problems arise for both sides.
—description from designer
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