Case Blue is the tenth game in The Gamers' wonderfully detailed Operational Combat Series, a series based on modern concepts of maneuver warfare that gives players an insightful look into how campaigns (large and small) really work. Expanding and replacing the acclaimed Enemy at the Gates, it covers in great detail the German advances in 1941 and '42, the Russian counterattacks of '42 and '43 and finally the German counterattack at Kharkov. It can be linked to Guderian's Blitzkrieg II to make a monster game that covers most of the Russo-German War until the summer of 1943. Multiple scenarios (one map to very large) allow play to be picked up at various key points in the campaign.
Nine 22x34-inch game maps, one 14x22-inch game map, 3640 (!) counters, OCS Series rules, German player booklet, Russian player booklet, 2 scenario booklets, charts and tables, dice. |