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HPS Simulations and John Tiller are proud to announce the
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A New Kind of
Warfare--A New John Tiller Series
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The
Wargamer is pleased to recognize John Tiller
and HPS with our Award for Excellence.
World War II: The First Blitzkrieg is
elegantly designed with important factors handled simply yet accurately.
Including several campaigns that haven’t been well-covered in other wargames,
and boasting an AI is good enough to make simulations meaningful, World War II:
The First Blitzkrieg is an excellent title for the World War II grognard.
(Click
here to read the full review).
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Read the Net Wargaming Italia review here. If you
don't read Italian,
BabelFish
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"Lightning
War" |
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In September 1939 a new form of warfare erupted in Europe, one that would
forever transform how wars were fought. As German panzers rolled across
Poland, a new word was spoken to describe combined armor and air
operations: Blitzkrieg.
Following the conquest of Poland, Germany would then turn its
attention to Scandinavia and then to France and the Low Countries in the
first few years of what would become the Second World War. Can you command
the German panzers with the same skill as Guderian and Rommel, or as the
Allies, can you stop the Wehrmacht where the historical commanders failed?
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The First
Blitzkrieg is the start of what
will be a series of games called Total
War in Europe. Unit scale ranges from divisions to battalions, and
includes air groups. Map scale is 10 kilometers per hex and two days per
turn. Each game map is part of a greater Master Map, encompassing the
whole of Europe and parts of North Africa and Western Asia with a quarter
million hexes. The Master Map will be released with the final game in the
series.
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$49.95
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The First
Blitzkrieg contains seventeen scenarios and campaigns from
the invasion of Poland to the Fall of France. There are also hypothetical
scenarios drawn from Operation SEA LION (the planned German invasion of
Britain) and “what if” the Allies had taken the offensive against
Germany in the autumn of 1939. Players have the opportunity to alter the
course of history on both the operational and strategic level.
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Minimum
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Pentium-based 133mhz+ PC with 32 megabytes of RAM. |
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280 megabytes of hard drive space. |
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Windows XP or greater. |
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CDROM drive for installation and game play. |
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Windows compatible sound card. |
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Modem/LAN/Internet for Network play. |
"Windows" is a registered trademark of Microsoft
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$49.95
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