Westerplatte 1939 (2022): Buy or sell now
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 14 and up. You can play with 2 to 2 players.
Playtime is roughly
60 - 90 Minutes.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Area Movement, Dice Rolling, Ratio / Combat Results Table und Simulation
The game is published by: Taktyka i Strategia
And was developed by: Wojciech Zalewski
Alternative names
The defense of Westerplatte went down in history thanks to the heroism of 216 Polish soldiers attacked by over 2,500 Germans. Attacked from the air by Stukas, shelled from the sea by the battleship Schleswig-Holstein, as well as by artillery and heavy machine guns, they lasted seven long days, inflicting heavy losses on the attackers.
—description from the publisher
Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland. Between 1926 and 1939, it was the location of a Polish Military Transit Depot. The place is famous for the battle in 1939 and a long Polish defence (7 days) against German forces, with Polish defenders being outnumbered (216 Polish soldiers vs approx. 2500 Germans) and outgunned.
The game offers two scenarios: one historical and the other one more hypothetical.
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