Deluxe Bitter Woods Game Information
updated 180808
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TITLE: Bitter Woods; Deluxe Bitter Woods
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PUBLISHER: The Avalon Hill Game Company (TAHGC as Bitter
Woods); L2 Design Group (L2DG as Deluxe Bitter Woods); Compass Games: Designer's
Edition.
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SCOPE: Battle of the Bulge, December 16 - December 26,
1944
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L2DG GAME BOX DESCRIPTION: Since the landings in France
the previous June, The Anglo-American Armies had compiled a record of unparalleled
victory. On December 16 they were preparing a massive drive toward the Rhine
River that promised to break the back of German resistance. Bun on that
day, in the foggy dawn, the German Army counterattacked with the fury of
a lightning bolt. The result was the famous Battle of the Bulge. The Bulge
was a brutal struggle in a dismal winter landscape against an enemy imbued
with a fanatic conviction that victory could be snatched from defeat. It
was the United States Army's greatest and most fiercest battle of World
War II. Over a million men and thousands of guns, tanks, and other fighting
vehicles were engaged. In those "Bitter Woods", fighting against
heavy odd, the American soldier slowed and then stopped the spearhead of
two elite Panzer Armies, forever emblazing themselves in the annals of military
history.
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YEAR PUBLISHED (EDITIONS): BITTER WOODS was published
by TAHGC in 1998; the distinction of the last game published prior to the
demise of TAHGC in August of 1998. L2 Design Group published Deluxe Bitter
Woods (DBW) in 2003. A Expansion addendum was latter also published which
added game materials for "Erasing the Bulge" scenario depicting
December 27-29, 1944. Compass Games Published the The Designer's Editiosn
in 2014 putting the title back in Print. For game playing purposes, other
than box size and some clarifiied rules, the game map play remains the same
as the 2003 version.