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Minsk '41

Minsk '41

Epoch · 1981
2180 min2.0/5 complexity6.3 BGG63KidsCouplesStrategy
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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.

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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.

game anatomy
Complexity2.0 / 5
BGG rating6.3 / 10
Vibe
KidsCouplesStrategy
Language dependence
Moderate text — a crib sheet helps
Play time
180 min
Players
2
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Minsk '41 is played by 2 players.
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A game of Minsk '41 takes about 180 minutes. (The first game doesn't count. It never counts.)
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Minsk '41 has a BoardGameGeek complexity of 2.0 out of 5.
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