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Rattenkrieg (Pocket Wargame series)
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Rattenkrieg (Pocket Wargame series)

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https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72622/rattenkrieg

This is the first game in the TPS line of the Pocket Battle Games series from LPS, Inc.

A solitaire postcard game of the intense fighting for the Tractor Factory in the Battle for Stalingrad. The player takes the role of the Germans as he maneuvers panzers, infantry, and elite pioneers into the ruins to hunt down the Soviets. Ambushes, snipers, and tough decisions await the Germans as they push deeper into the city.

The longer the game lasts the more Soviet Reinforcements infiltrate through the ruins to surround and cut off the attackers. To win the player will have to master warfare in the most brutal of all WWII battlefields

Rattenkrieg is literally "War of the Rats" and is the name given to irregular and deadly city fighting. Brought published by Turning Point Simulations and designed by Steven Cunliffe who also made The Hell of Stalingrad.
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29 Mar, 2020 @ 5:33am
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Nathan
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Nathan 29 Mar, 2020 @ 4:45am 
Thank you for getting this on TTS! I'd never heard of this before, but it's easy to learn and relatively quick to play.

From my initial playthrough, it seems like even with perfect play you're very vulnerable to bad luck. You really want to 1) manage your battles so that you always have more dice to roll than the Soviets, and 2) deny the Soviets from being able to bring in reinforcements. It seems like the best way to do #1 is to go straight for the grain elevator before worrying about the other fortified units to the south (I did take out the northernmost Soviet unit so I could wrap some units around the northern side of the grain elevator), and the best way to do #2 is to keep other Soviet units on the board so that reinforcements can't spawn there, and to spread out your units to cover the territory that the Soviets would most likely spawn into.