GUNS OF AUGUST Game Information
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Overview:
- TITLE: The Guns of August
- PUBLISHER: The Avalon Hill Game Company (TAHGC)
- SCOPE: Strategic level World War I
- TAHGC CATALOG DESCRIPTION: THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a strategic simulation of the First World War.
- GAME BOX DESCRIPTION: From the summer of 1914 through the final surrender on the eleventh hour of eleventh month of 1918, GUNS OF AUGUST, spans the entire First World War in monthly Game-Turns; each player maneuvers hundreds of infantry and calvary corps and their supporting artillery and engineer regiment. An din addition to this mammoth campaign game, separate scenarios for each front during each year of the war, which can be combined into two front 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, have been specifically designed to allow players to vary the size, difficulty, and playing time of their games.
- YEAR PUBLISHED (EDITIONS): 1976. Discontinued by TAHGC prior to 1998; all rights reverted back to Designer (Robert Beyma) per contract specification. WGA has drafted a 3rd edition rules incorporating the designers unpublished material and other sources.