AGAINST THE ODDS 2010 ANNUAL: Four Roads to Moscow

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Shortly after Directive #21 was issued in 1940 authorizing the attack on the Soviet Union, Hitler personally intervened to assign it the codename to which it would henceforward be known: Barbarossa. He chose as his paragon the Germanic hero and twelfth-century Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, known as 'Barbarossa' from the Italian for 'redbeard.'

Why did Barbarossa fail? Four veteran designers -- Mike Rinella, Ted Raicer, Roger Nord, and John Prados -- combine to offer four different games to address this question through the eyes of four veteran game designers. Each drew some very different and startling conclusions.

This ATO Annual offers four complete simulations plus the usual supersized magazine.

Four Roads to Moscow

Maps - Four full color 17x22-inch mapsheets
Counters - Four sheets of full color die-cut counters
Rules length - app. 8 pages each game
Charts and tables - app. 1 page each game
Complexity - Medium
Solitaire suitability - Average
Playing time - Up to 3 to 4 hours for each game, 12 to 16 hours to play them all.