Storm Over Stalingrad and Twilight Struggle played

Managed to complete two board wargames with my Dad at last visit !

First up was Storm Over Stalingrad which is a low complexity quick playing game.
I was Russians (not much in the way of attacking for them in this game) struggling to hold the city.
This turned out to be a close game with Soviets just about holding onto to enough Victory Locations to thwart the Germans.
The cards work well with the low complexity.
Great game for quick set up and play through.

After that we selected Twilight Struggle (more a conflict than war game but still great) with Dad being the good ol' US of A and I the Commies.
Another really close game with USA coming out on top by a mere 4 VPs in the end.















Early Russian dominance in Asia

Storm Over Stalingrad played

Played first proper game of Storm Over Stalingrad with my Dad tonight. Great game very quick and easy to play. Russians took massive losses but held out losing only two Victory Areas (five needed for German win). Only problem we had was with some of the card interactions as not too clear if any precedence of play order but nothing too onerous.









Using iPad app to publish this post so not sure how it will turn out
Postscript: bit limited compared to PC version re pics etc but easy to fix

Overall view of the game

Horrendous Ivan casualties but they held out overall to thwart the Nazis.

Storm Over Stalingrad new arrival

Latest EBay purchase 'Storm Over Stalingrad' by MMP arrived today.
Just set up and ready to give it a whirl.
Nice concise 6 (!!) page rule book and game looks to be very playable as a lot of stuff tied up in card decks for each side.
Artillery, Air Power and suchlike are card 'effects'.
Much lower unit count than in old Avalon Hill title 'Turning Point Stalingrad'.