OPERATION WARBOARD

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Donald Featherstone said, 'there have been few wargaming books written as well as Operation Warboard. Gavin Lyall applied his established writing talents to create a wargaming book that in places seemed more like a thriller than a book about a marvelous and engaging hobby.

The book was written for 20mm-25mm WWII wargaming with rules that were straightforward, fast and comprehensive. The rules included sections on command, communication, air power, airborne forces, invasion, desert and snow. Of particular note were the simple, but complete rules for the preparation of the battlefield by engineers. Nothing spoils an attacker's day like being surprised by a dug in infantry company with mines and wires on a reverse slope.

The book also had the innovation of including extensive notes about the thinking behind the rules. The player's notes discussed the abstractions and generalizations that informed the design decisions, most of which are still issues that rule-writers for the period still contend with.
This reprint of the 1976 classic includes a new foreword by Bernard Lyall and new optional rules.