VAE VICTUS #104: May 2012

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Includes the solitaire game 'Raid On Bruneval 1942'

At the end of 1941, the Germans have at their disposal a new radar, which is more efficient than the Freya and able to detect the bombers of the RAF at 120 km (72 miles). An English air reconnaissance locates one near the hamlet of Bruneval, 25 km north of le Havre. The Germans call this radar Wurzburg and the English give it the code name Henry. The English plan Operation Biting -- an airborne operation scheduled for the night of February 27 to 28, 1942.

Under the command of Major John Frost, the paratroopers will drop to neutralize a German garrison of an estimated 100 troops, seize radar parts and if possible a radar operator, and then escape by the ocean before reinforcements arrived.

The player controls the British while automaton rules govern German movement and combat. Like all one-player games, certain rules of automatic management may be open to interpretation. If so, the player should guide the German units so as to always position
them in a favorable situation. One game lasts approximately two hours.