Sunday, 26 September 2010

Usborne Battlegame book 4 World War II


Written by Andrew McNeil, the four games were:

1 Winter War - Eastern Front 1943 with the Germans defending a railway junction against the Russians, who have 12 moves to capture it

2 Carrier - flat tops and amphibious landings in the Pacific

3 Air Assault - American daylight bombing raid in 1943 against occupied France

4 Beach-Head - D-Day landing game using The Funnies

The Carrier and Beach-Head games were designed by Citadel Boardgames Ltd.

I remember playing the Carrier and Air Assault games quite frequently but not the others. My current copiy has the pieces for these two games unused, but not the others. The rules pages identify the different pieces so they lend themselves to replacement by appropriate figures and models.

1 comment:

SteelonSand said...

Wonderful piece of nostalgia - I still have my copy somewhere, but typically the counters have long ago disappeared - used to play it with 6mm microarmour pieces as well, once upon a time. Thanks for posting this!