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51 - "Almost a Miracle!"

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Volume 13, Issue 3 (#51) "Almost a Miracle!"

When asked about it, years after it ended, George Washington said that the American victory was "little short of a standing miracle."



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52 - Operation Ichi-Go

52 - Operation Ichi-Go

Volume 13, Issue 4 (#52) Operation Ichi-Go

Operation Ichi-Go (“Number One”) against the Chinese was the largest ground offensive in Japanese history, with 500,000 troops, 800 tanks and massive logistics and artillery support. They used their tanks in armored divisions – the only time in the war they deployed such concentrations.



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Buffalo Wings Expansion Kit

Buffalo Wings Expansion Kit

The Buffalo Wings Expansion Kit expands coverage of the "Winter War" and "Continuation War" between Finland and the USSR, sometimes independent and then as part of WW2.

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Shogi

Shogi

Shogi, the Battle That Never Was is named after the popular Japanese variation of chess (the literal translation is "general's board game"), in which regular opponents can learn much about each other's approach to strategy...



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2023 Annual - La Bataille de Kulm

2023 Annual - La Bataille de Kulm

“Can we have written anything which could have thus misled him? Fetch me your order book...show me my notes.”

-- Napoleon Ier to Marshal Berthier

La Bataille de Kulm looks at the shattering reverse Napoleon suffered right after his triumphant defense of Dresden. An entire French corps, itself in pursuit of the retreating Allies, instead found itself trapped, and was swept from the field. It was the turning point of the Leipzig Campaign.



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2013 Annual - La Bataille de Vauchamps

2013 Annual - La Bataille de Vauchamps

“Come. We must repeat the campaign in Italy.”

-- Emperor Napoleon to Berthier, 1814

For the casual reader who looks into the “100 Days” and the Waterloo Campaign, one of the early questions is, “Who (the heck) is Grouchy?” Followed up by wondering why (on earth) Napoleon would give this guy a third of his army and depend on him to keep Blücher’s Prussians far from Wellington....



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2010 Annual - Four Roads To Moscow

2010 Annual - Four Roads To Moscow

“When Barbarossa begins, the world will hold its breath!”

-- Adolf Hitler, 1941

Why did Barbarossa fail? Now, four veteran designers combine in a unique offering from Against the Odds. The ATO Annual edition for 2010 includes four different games, but all on the same topic, Operation Barbarossa. Each designer looks hard at the reasons behind Barbarossa's successes and failures.



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2009 Annual - Verdun: A Generation Lost

2009 Annual - Verdun: A Generation Lost

“They shall not pass!” -- Marshal Petain

Hoping to bring a decisive conclusion along the Western Front in 1916 despite the mud-and misery-filled trench deadlock, German General von Falkenhayn launched an attack from which the French could not retreat, and would prove costly for them to defend. The goal of the German offensive was the historic and symbolic city of Verdun.



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