With yet another birthday coming up I got myself (on wifes behalf) a board wargame from summer sale at Second Chance Games and went with Downfall from GMT which has garnered good reviews.
Am finding board wargames are generally getting to be out of price range I am willing to pay so obtaining this one for under £50 was hard to resist.
Game punched and set up ready to go as solo effort with relatively low unit count although it has a somewhat larger footprint than usual.
Standard GMT quality however I went with standard paper map version as to obtain the mounted boards and larger box would have doubled cost.
Covers essentially same theatre as WW2 Barbarossa To Berlin, which is a favourite of mine, although starting in November 1942 rather than June 1941.
It has unusual mechanic of it being Soviets versus Western Allies but with each side controlling a Nazi faction (why do I detest that word !?) with Soviets using OKW in West/Mediterranean forces to delay Allies and OKH forces in east used to delay Soviets.
Now to read the rules.......................
Looks like it'll be a lot of fun!
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