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This is an excellent game that I have been playing for years. The models are superb quality and the terrain is excellent. The game is easily leant but difficult to master. Troops caught out in the open tend to die and assaults on defended positions require suppression fire on defenders so that assaulting troops can approach – what we would expect in real life.

The rules are already available to download together with some character cards enabling players to try it out with whatever figures they already have before purchasing.

The figures are 1-48 scale (same as Dust tactics) – a little bigger than 28mm.

With a low figure count (3-4 models per side is sufficient to play); a small gaming area required and a set of easily learnt rules, this game is ideal when you only have a lunch time or short period to play. A game with 3-4 figures per side could last from 15 – 30 minutes. It all depends on whether or not anyone foolishly exposes their troops.

A few years ago I demonstrated this at Q-Con and Gaelcon. As well as the demo games we also ran a larger game in which seven German troops were defending two buildings against an assault by a force of fifteen Russians (the initial set of figures from years ago were based on the Battle for Stalingrad). The Russians laid down suppression fire on one of the buildings while another group assaulted it. Their approach went well and they reached the downstairs windows and doors with most of the Germans keeping their heads down However, a single grenade lobbed out an upstairs window managed to kill or wound four of the assaulting Russians. With that the Russian assault lost momentum and although they sought to continue to take the building the attack faltered and ran out of steam as the Germans brought more troops to the buildings defence.

I highly recommend this game. While many other games will use the term, “easy to learn rules” this game actually does have easy to learn rules and yet requires considerable tactical thought to win.