1985 BGG rank #28991

4th Reich: Puremen vs. the Mutants for Control of the World

1–2 players 120 min Ages 12+ 2.1/5 complexity 5.5/10 rating

About this game

"4th Reich: Puremen vs. the Mutants for Control of the World" is a somewhat obscure wargame by Task Force Games based on (albeit without attribution) the SF-novel "The Iron Dream" by the Jewish author Norman Spinrad. This very controversial novel describes a parallel world in which Hitler wasn't successful with his "Kampf" in Germany and became a successful SF-pulp-novelist in the US. The main part of the book is the actual text of Hitler's "Iron Dream", a pulp-tale about "Ubermenschen" conquering a future world filled with mutant "scum." The idea of Spinrad's novel was to expose fascist tendencies in 50's American literature. The TFG designers transported this "theme" into a board game which plays like a wargame: future Nazis against future mutants. The names of all protagonists have been changed in an apparent attempt to avoid infringement, but the game clearly takes its slightly tongue-in-cheek approach directly from the book.

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Simulation Secret Unit Deployment Hexagon Grid Grid Movement Zone of Control Variable Set-up Dice Rolling Movement Points Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game Science Fiction Novel-based Wargame Economic World War II Alternate History

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