Danube 20: Aspern-Essling 1809

Danube 20 from Victory Point Games covers the Wagram and Aspern-Essling battles from the 1809 campaign. The following is an AAR on the Aspern-Essling game. For an actual examination of how the Napoleonic 20 system works, please see my earlier posts on Borodino 20 and Waterloo 20.

LINK Borodino - http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/borodino-1812-napoleonic-20-system.html

Link Waterloo - http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/waterloo-20-replay.html

Please click below to get the full posting of this ASPERN - ESSLING replay.

Battle for Moscow - an introductory game

Battle for Moscow (Operation Typhoon 1941) covers the last stages of 1941 on the east front as the Germans make a final effort to reach Moscow.

The significant aspect of this game is that it was designed from the ground up specifically as an introductory game. It originated in 1986 when Frank Chadwick and his team from Game Designers' Workshop (a sorely missed games company) put out the game for free, to encourage new players into the fold.

Since that time, Alan Emrich and his team at Victory Point Games have put out a revised edition in 2009 and through their links with GMT, the game has also been included in issue 25 of GMT's C3i magazine.

The game has all the building blocks of the traditional wargame and introduces the universal terms such as CRT, ZOC's and Sequence of Play to the new gamer. The design not only works very well as an introductory game, but it also gives a very good game for regular wargamers.

The following highlights some of the game mechanics while playing through a recent game.