AGAINST THE ODDS #56: Hitler's Stalingrad - Breslau 1945

1-ATO056

Examines the 1945 Soviet siege of the city of Breslau. With 324 counters and a 22x34-inch map scaled at about 650 yards per hex, a game turn represents one week. The game captures the flavor of planned, grand assaults quickly degenerating into gritty, street-level fighting, with players alternating conducting operations during the turn. Skillfully positioned reserves and sharp counterattacks can blunt massive thrusts, but sometimes at a frightfully high rate of casualties.

Special rules model rubble and barricades; the multi-level city buildings; surprise and ambush during combat; Soviet command directives; the armored train 'Porsel'; remotely controlled Goliaths; and the possible use of nerve gas (Breslau was the major repository of both Germany's remaining stocks of the little AFVs and also the deadly nerve agent Tabun).

Components:
Maps - One full color 22x34-inch hex mapsheet
Counters - 324 full color 9/16-inch die-cut counters
Rules length - 15 pages
Charts and tables - 1 page
Complexity - Medium
Playing time - Up to 4 hours
How challenging is it solitaire? - Average