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Dispatches BAKERSFIELD CA PERMIT NO 66 from Decision Games #39 FALL 2020 PRESRT STD US POSTAGE PAID DISPATCHES BAKERSFIELD CA PERMIT NO 66 FROM DECISION GAMES #39 FALL 2020 (661) 587-9633 | (661) 587-5031 fax | P.O. Box 21598 | Bakersfield CA 93390 | DECISIONGAMES.COM Excerpt from Strategy & Tactics #50 The Last Strategies By Stephen B. Patrick Germany By December, 1944, the Axis existed only in Hitler’s mind. Accordingly, all strategies were Hitler’s. Germany was fighting on four fronts by this time: the west, Italy, Poland and the Balkans. The last two were nominally one front, but, because the two Soviet drives were basically independent, they had to be treated separately. Hitler’s strategy, such as it was, was one of desperation and wishful thinking. He was convinced that the Anglo-American alliance with the Soviets could not endure. Subsequent events proved him right. What he failed to recognize was that the mutual hatred they bore for Nazism was sufficient to hold the alliance together for the duration of the war. Hitler seemed to have few illusions about Germany’s chances to win the war. He now wanted to settle for destroying Communism. Hitler convinced himself that he could work out an alliance with the Anglo- Americans and the three would then crush the Bolshevik menace. To “encourage” the British and American governments to see things his way, Hitler felt he needed a major victory in the west. He may not have seriously believed he could root the western Allies, but he did expect to deliver a blow that would seriously upset the western timetable. He also hoped to so upset morale at home in the western alliance that the German Panzer V Panther on the Eastern Front, 1944. Waidelich, German Federal Archives CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 » Dispatch #39 | FALL 2020 1 Order online @ shop.strategyandtacticspress.com 2020 11 Fall Thirty Years War – Violent Birth of Modern Europe: Modern Europe is the ORDER TODAY! product of the gradual evolution of political, economic, and social institutions, interspersed with cataclysmic events as the old order resisted change. The early seventeenth century saw one of the worst. The Thirty Years’ War of 1618-1648 tore through central Europe, depopulating large tracts of Germany, while subsidiary fights erupted on the high seas, in Available the Americas, and in the Far East. It melded the last of the Catholic-Protestant wars and Now! the first stirrings of nationalism to ongoing dynastic struggles for European hegemony. 12 Winter Dreadnoughts – Big-Gun Era of Naval Warfare: Few weapons have come and gone so precipitously as the modern battleship. HMS Dreadnought, launched in 1906, instantly made every other battleship obsolete. 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EMAIL 19 Fall French & Indian War: This issue will dig into the details of the French & Indian War, a remote corner of the Seven Years War where small battles and campaigns determined the outcome for a continent. VISA/MC/DISC (ONLY)# *SCHEDULE AND TOPICS SUBJECT TO CHANGE EXP. & CVV SIGNATURE 2 Dispatch #39 | FALL 2020 » CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Dear Fellow Wargamers: respective citizenry would be receptive to his offer. The result of all this wishful thinking was the Ardennes Offensive: the Battle of the Bulge. We hope this Dispatch finds you healthy and returning to normal activities. With the failure of the Bulge, Hitler had to do something about the We appreciate everyone who participated in our various summer sales to renewed Soviet attacks. This resulted in the last two major attacks on the highlight the conventions we were expecting to attend. We are looking forward Eastern Front: Guderian’s mini-offensive in Pomerania was agreed to to next year and anticipating conventions will be returning to normal schedules. reluctantly. His major attack was around Lake Balaton, in Hungary. We’re also glad to report that most of the retail game shops and bookstores The failure of these attacks left Hitler no cohesive plan. Aside from the are open for business and stocking up on our new games and magazines. discredited “stand-fast” policy. In April there was the tragi-comedy plan for the relief of Berlin, to be accomplished by Wenck’s non-existant 12th Army, Welcome to our 39th issue of the Dispatch. We’ve released four boxed games Steiner’s non-existant Army Group Steiner and Busse’s skeleton 9th Army. over the summer. Lucky Forward covers Patton’s Lorraine Campaign. During What he would have done had they broken through to Berlin is not recorded. development, the GOSS system rules were updated along with all of the exclusive In Italy, Hitler had no plan other than to hold the line. rules for the previous games—all of the updates are in the E-rules online. D-Day at Omaha Beach was released with no changes from the third printing. The third The Allies release is a deluxe edition of the four D-Day folios we published last year for Allied strategy was based on the agreement formalized at Yalta. the 75th anniversary. This D-Day Quad deluxe edition features a mounted game There it was agreed that Germany would not be partitioned, but board, full-color rules booklet, and a game box reminiscent of the SPI quadri- would be occupied and the zones of occupation were laid out. games. Finally, we published Battle for Germany. This deluxe edition includes In the west, Eisenhower was still wrestling with Montgomery, who favored the SPI counter set as well as the DG/MOVES counter set so players can play with a single drive on Berlin, led, coincidentally, by himself. Eisenhower favored a either counter set, a mounted game board with an expansion up to the Courland broad front advance, pressing the German line at all points so that it would peninsula, a rules booklet with rules for two, three and four player scenarios break in several places, rather than just one or two. Eisenhower did agree to give as well as scenarios for Red Star/White Star and the eastern front, plus bonus Montgomery priority in getting over the Rhine since Montgomery would have the counters and optional rules from Donald B. Johnson for adding offensive supply clear terrain of northern Germany as his area of operation. However, once across markers and some other small amendments to add even more realism to the the Rhine, any strategy was of little meaning since the broad front strategy finally game.
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