Last Blitzkrieg

Key Battalion Combat Series concepts include:

• Objectives
• Recon Units
• Concentrated Armor and Support
• Prepared Defense
• MSRs and Combat Trains
• Set Piece Combats vs. Shock Attacks vs. Engagements
• Artillery Barrages
• Artillery Asset Points
• Attack by Fire
• SNAFU
• Activation by Formation
• Traffic and Coordination
• Fatigue
• Memory Markers

Last Blitzkrieg also adds:

• Bridge Blowing
• Greif Teams
• Weather
• Tiger Maintenance Woes
• Voraus Units

Game play commences on 16 December 44 and ends on 31 December 44 (with each turn being one day) allowing the first phase of the Allied counterattack to proceed. The winner is determined by comparing the German high water mark in Victory Point hexes against the situation at the very end of the game.

In addition to the full campaign, which uses a 4-map "box" layout, there are 9 additional scenarios for a total of 10 scenarios of various sizes:

• Two 4-map scenarios:
  • • Last Blitzkrieg Campaign: 16 turns
  • Final Blitzkrieg: 10 turns
• Two 2-map scenarios:
  • • Breakthrough Campaign: 6 turns using Maps C and D
  • Advance & Destroy: 10 turns using Map D and a portion of Map B
• Six 1-map scenarios (including two scenarios on portions of a single map)
  • • Northern Campaign: 6 turns using Map C
  • • Southern Campaign: 6 turns using Map D
    • Kampfgruppe Peiper: 5 turns using portion of Map C
• The Goose Egg: 5 turns using portion of Map C
• Bastogne: Screaming Eagles Under Siege: 8 turns using portions of Maps B and D (total playing area is less than one map)
• • Tip of the Spear: 4 turns using Map A

Last Blitzkrieg was designed to bring all of this—and much more—to your table in a most historically accurate game that is jam-packed with information. The BCS was designed with twin goals: to provide the most insight possible into a battle and to provide games that have maximum playability.

Last Blitzkrieg contents:

• Four 22" x 34" maps
• Six countersheets
• One Battalion Combat Series rules booklet
• One Last Blitzkrieg specific rulebook
• One Battalion Combat Series Crib Notes booklet
• Two Battalion Combat Series Charts and Tables booklets
• Two Last Blitzkrieg Charts and Tables booklets
• One box and lid
• Two 6-sided dice