The Battle of Stalingrad: Pivot on the Volga 2012

Part of the TPS, Decisive Battles series. That means straightforward rules, key insights into the history behind the game, and designs aimed at one-session conclusions and high replay value. With shifting objectives and variable entry times for key units, no two Stalingrad games will play the same.

It became the focus point for everything else on the Eastern Front. Once they battled into the city, the German troops called it the Rattenkrieg, the rats war, and joked that they had captured the kitchen but were still fighting for the living room. The joke had more than an element of truth, as the bitter fighting went from block to block, then building to building, and - literally - room to room. Soviet soldiers in the city said, There is no land on the other side of the Volga.

The Battle of Stalingrad includes:

• Map: Full color, 11 x 17 mounted mapboard with integrated strategic movement track
• Pieces: 216 full color, 9/16 die-cut counters
• Rulesbook: 12 pages
• Charts and Displays: Six player aid charts
• Skill Level: Advanced

• First in an intended line of board games covering the 21 most pivotal battles in history
• Game covers the 1942 campaign in southern USSR that concluded with the Soviet Uranus offensive that destroyed the German 6th Army