East Front (game)
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East Front is a board wargame published by The Control Box, Inc. in 1976 that simulates combat on the Russo-German Front during World War II. The game had unusual hexagonal-shaped counters rather than the more traditional square counters.
Gameplay
East Front is a two-player game in which one player controls the German forces invading the Soviet Union, and the other player controls the Soviet defenders. With two large (21" x 28") hex grid maps covering the entire front from Finland to the Caspian Sea and 800 counters,[1] the game is complex.
East Front uses the game system developed for SPI's wargame Kursk in 1971: The German player
- moves all units
- engages in combat
- moves all mechanized units a second time
The Russian player then has the same opportunity, completing one game turn, which represents 2 weeks of game time.
Scenarios
The game comes with nine scenarios:
- "Invasion of Poland" — Critic Nick Palmer claimed this two-turn scenario was the shortest to appear in a board wargame with the exception of GDW's Chaco, which also had a two-turn scenario[1]
- "Barbarossa"
- "Stalingrad"
- "High Water Mark"
- "Kursk"
- "Destruction of Army Group Center"
- "Campaign Game" — 109-turn scenario covering the entire war from the start of Operation Barbarossa to the Fall of Berlin.