1981

Minsk '41

2 players 180 min Ages 0+ 2.0/5 complexity 0.0/10 rating

Rules edition: Minsk '41 Japan Wargame Classics edition Command Japan magazine edition Epoch edition

About this game

Operation Barbarossa is an Operational level Japanese board-wargame covering the first months of the German World War II "Operation Barbarossa". Division level with single step units - Russian units are back printed with an untried side similar to system pioneered in SPI's Panzergruppe Guderian. CRT uses an AE-AR-C-EX-DR-DE range of results. First and second edition: 105 combat units, 3 marker counters, 1 17" x 34" map. Rules are 8 pages in Japanese with designer's notes and examples. Originally designed by Rec Co. and published by Epoch. Reprinted by Kokusai-Tsushin in Command Magazine Japan #57, along with 1942. Latest edition (3rd edition in Japan Wargame Classics) includes a bonus game Riga '41. Both games can be connected.