THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN Game Information
updated 080119
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Overview:
- TITLE: The Russian Campaign
- PUBLISHER: The Avalon Hill Game Company (TAHGC); 4th Edition
by L2 Design Group.
- SCOPE: WWII East Front; 1941-45, Strategic Level.
- TAHGC CATALOG VERBAGE: RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN: not another Stalingrad,
the game covers all the action on the eastern front from start to finish.
Initiative changes hands frequently! A double-impulse movement system realistically
recreates the German blitzkrieg., large breakthroughs and mass armor encirclements
with each side capable for launching a crippling strike from an apparently
hopeless position.
- GAME BOX VERBAGE (4th): Corps level game recreating the
entire Russo-German conflict from 1941-1945. Initiative changes hands frequently!
A double-impulse movement system realistically recreates the German blitzkrieg
deep into the Soviet Union, large breakthroughs and mass armor encirclements
with each side capable for launching a crippling strike from an apparently
hopeless position. The game features air strikes, production, partisans, and
a modified weather chart along with stunning new graphics, revised rules,
map and counter art. Map and counters have been enlarged to 5/8" and
included with the game is a ready-to-use ADC2 Limited program and ADC2 module
on CD.
- YEAR PUBLISHED (EDITIONS): 1st Edition -Jedko
(`1974); 1st Edition -TAHGC (`1976); 2nd edition -TAHGC (1977); 3rd edition-TAHGC
(1977); Jedko's TRC Series II edition (1985); 4th edition L2
Design Group (2003).
- CHANGES IN 4TH EDITION: Map changes other than hex size:
One hexrow added above Archangel; two rows added below Berlin; portion of
Bulgaria & Turkey added but not playable in standard game; half hexes
now unplayable denoted by lack of hex ID; Hex Id scheme numbering altered.
Rules reflect cleanup for years of tournament play. Two sets of counters;
one with standard NATO symbols as in 3rd edition; one with graphical icons.