2nd Battle in 1943 campaign ladder.

Their victory in the first game allows the Soviets to attack again, from zone 2 into zone 3 (see Resource Section below for a campaign description).

This zone is pivotal to the long term success of the campaign as it is the central zone on the ladder (5 zones) and the odd number guarantees the player controlling this zone a victory at the end of the campaign, due to their being 1 VP per zone controlled.

However, the randomly selected forces give the Soviets much concern, as they have not drawn particularly well as the attacker.

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A short campaign, OHW meets 'O' Group

This is an opening post that describes a small / short WWII campaign game that is based upon a marriage of scenarios taken from Neil Thomas' One Hour wargames and 'O' Group rules by David Brown.

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Assault on Strassengabel - an ‘O’ Group game

'O' Group are published by Reisswitz Press and authored by David Brown. The rules cover tactical WWII at Battalion level.

Anschluss Press, who happen to have a set of WWII rules pitched at a similar level as ‘O’ Group have started to release a series of scenario books to support their rules. They describe the scenario books as being usable with other systems, so having taken one of the smaller scenarios to check out the Anschluss rules, I thought the exercise was worth re-doing, this time using the ‘O’ Group rules.

It is really the way that the game opens that interests me, as my last playing (with other rules) left me wondering how the British could ever win the scenario …. so how will ‘O’ Group handle the situation? 

In the Resource section at the foot of the post is a link to the previous article covering that first playing of this scenario with the Anschluss rules, which may interest the reader for sake of comparison.

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