Minsk '41
(1981)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 0 and up. You can play with 2 to 2 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, Hexagon Grid, Simulation und Zone of Control...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 180 |
| Minimum age: | 0 |
| Number of players: | 2 |
| Publisher: | Epoch, Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd. (国際通信社) |
| Designers: | Yukihiro Kuroda |
| Artists: | Yasushi Nakaguro, Sawshun Yamagushi |
| Mechanics: | Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, Hexagon Grid, Simulation, Zone of Control |
Operation Barbarossa is an Operational level Japanese board-wargame covering the first months of the German World War II "Operation Barbarossa".
Division level with single step units - Russian units are back printed with an untried side similar to system pioneered in SPI's Panzergruppe Guderian. CRT uses an AE-AR-C-EX-DR-DE range of results.
First and second edition:
105 combat units, 3 marker counters, 1 17" x 34" map. Rules are 8 pages in Japanese with designer's notes and examples.
Originally designed by Rec Co. and published by Epoch.
Reprinted by Kokusai-Tsushin in Command Magazine Japan #57, along with 1942.
Latest edition (3rd edition in Japan Wargame Classics) includes a bonus game Riga '41. Both games can be connected.
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