Russia '41 and Germany '45 + Bulge 1944 Reprint

What is the Project About?

3 Hex and Counter wargames of 3 Classic Campaigns of World War II brought to life by designer Dan Fournie.  

The 3 Games

• All 3 games in this series uses the same game play with modifications made on the campaigns.  Each game has it's own dynamic scenarios, and special rules modifications based on the historical situation.
• All games may be played by 2 players but are very solitaire friendly by the player playing both sides to the best of their ability (there are varying resource points per turn making knowing what your opponent will receive difficult).
• Further, Germany '45 has 2, 3, and 4 player scenarios including the Western Allies attacking Russia to prevent communist domination of Europe!!!
• Each side gets a set number of resource points to move and have combat, each move or combat costing a resource point. But you can do these in any order, so attack with an adjacent unit, create a hole, and then race through with another unit, which can then attack! Then move the initial unit that attacked to create the hole...the decisions are yours!
• Breakthroughs will occur, having the right units in position to expoit your opportunities is critical. 

Russia '41

The game of the East Front from 1941 to 1945.As the German player you must push rapidly east trying to capture the key cities of Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad, not only fighting the Russian army but the winter as well.  And as the Russian player you must withstand the German sledgehammer attacks as you trade ground for time, marshalling your forces for the counterattack that will drive the enemy backwards. 

4 Scenarios starting and ending at different times of the conflict, plus a campaign from 1941 to 1945 all playable in 1 to 3 hours.

Russia ended up winning but history did not have to end like this, can you do better?

Germany '45

The game of the drive through Germany by the Western Allies and Russia in 1945. The game has scenarios for single front action (Germans vs Russians / Germans vs Western Allies) East and West Front Action, could the Western Allies have beaten Russia to Berlin?  

With 4 scenarios including a hypothetical scenario confrontation between the Western Allies against Russia as Churchill persuades Truman to prevent communist domination of Europe!

Battle of the Bulge: 1944 

3rd Printing

This is a reprint of the 2nd Printing from 2022. There are no updates.  This is a reprint.  Currently rated a 7.6 on boardgamegeek.com.

Designed by Dan Fournie this fast playing Bulge game will give you hours of game play.  With fewer than 50 counters per side, and 8 pages of rules, you'll be up and playing in 15 minutes, and finishing games in 2 hours or less.  

Components

COMPONENTS FOR RUSSIA '41:

• Beautiful sturdy game box
• 22" x 34" full color mounted game board
• 2 or 3 countersheets with large thick counters with rounded corners
• 2 x Rulebooks (one for each player)
• 10 x custom combat dice 
• 2 x Player Aids
• 2 x RP / Reinforcement / Removal Schedule
• Double Sided Scenario Card
• Custom Counter Tray

COMPONENTS FOR GERMANY '45:

• Beautiful sturdy game box
• 22" x 34" full color mounted game board
• 2 or 3 countersheets with large thick counters with rounded corners
• 2 x Rulebooks (one for each player)
• 10 x custom combat dice 
• 2 x Player Aids
• 2 x RP / Reinforcement / Removal Schedule
• Double Sided Scenario Card
• Custom Counter Tray

COMPONENTS FOR BATTLE OF THE BULGE 1944:

• Thick game box
• Large 22" x 34" hard mounted game board
•  2 sheets of large 7/8" game counters plus 5/8" markers 
• 2 sets of rules (one for each player)
• Allied Order of Appearance Card
• German Order of Appearance Card
• Custom combat dice
• Objective Cards
• Custom counter tray

*ADD AN OPTIONAL NEOPRENE GAME BOARD TO ANY OF THE GAMES ABOVE

How to Play

All 3 games use the same basic rule structure of Resource Points (RP) which are used to activate units to move and for combat.  

Reviews

Reviews of Battle of the Bulge: 1944

Add-Ons

Add a full size neoprene game mat for any of the 3 games!

Shipping

*For international customers, we do not pay VAT or customs due to country variants. 

We will be charging shipping post-campaign using Kickstarter's new system. Estimated shipping costs for SINGLE game packages are as follows for shipments:

• USA: $10 - $15 
• World Wide: $20 - $30

Additional games or maps will add between $2 and $5 based on weight for International orders.

About the Designer

Dan Fournie has previously published 6 games with Worthington — 1944: Battle of the Bulge, 1944: D-Day to the Rhine, 414 BC: Siege of Syracuse Drop Zone: Southern France 1944, Operation Dragoon, and Hold the Line Hannibal. 

Dan's game Baetis Campaign, 211 BC, was featured in C3i Magazine #37. He has published over 40 articles in C3i over the years with scenarios for GMT’s Great Battles of History series, Pax Romana and Commands & Colors: Ancients. GMT published his Tyrant (Great Battles of Alexander) and Barbarian (SPQR) Modules. He has also published over a dozen military history articles in Campaign, Command, Military History and International Journal of Intelligence magazines. 

Dan retired from a career in the Army (serving in Germany, Korea, Colombia, Haiti, Bosnia and Iraq) and then civil service, and now devotes his time to historical research and wargame design.