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In The Guide to Simulations/Games for Education and Training, Richard Rydzel called this "a simplified version of Bastogne." Ryzdel noted that, for educational purposes, "The game still shows, like its predecessor, that traffic was a headache for the Germans. It shows further how impossible the aims of the historical offensive were." [4]
Battles for Ardennes was designed by Danny S. Parker, with cartography by Redmond Simonsen, and was published by SPI in 1978. The game immediately rose to #6 on SPI's list of their Top Ten Bestselling Games, rose as high as #2 for several months, and stayed on the Bestesller list for nearly a year. [4]
The Ardennes Offensive: 1973: ... Re-released by Decision Games in 1999: World War II: European Theater of Operations: 1973: ... Solitaire game. Multiplayer version ...
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Bastogne was also released as an individual game packaged in a double LP-sized cardstock folio. [3] (This game is not to be confused with another SPI game of the same title, published when the company was known as Poultron Press, designed by Jim Dunnigan and published in 1969 in Issue 20 of Strategy & Tactics. The two games are not related in ...
The Ardennes Offensive was commercially unsuccessful. However, Robert Mayer of Computer Games Strategy Plus wrote in 1999 that the game had received acclaim, and was "regarded by hardcore wargamers as one of the finest operational level computer wargames ever made". [11] The game's portrayal of the Battle of the Bulge was praised by critics.
In October 2001, SSG announced a deal with publisher Matrix Games to release Korsun Pocket. [1] It was revealed under the name Decisive Battles of WWII: Korsun Pocket in May 2002. [2] It was shown off by Matrix Games in April 2003. It is the sequel to Decisive Battles of WWII: The Ardennes Offensive. [3] The game was released on August 25, 2003.
Original cover of edition titled "Bulge" Bulge, subtitled "The Battle for the Ardennes, 16 Dec '44–2 Jan '45", and also published as The Big Red One: The Game of the First Infantry Division at the Battle of the Bulge, is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1980 that simulates the World War II German offensive in December 1944 known as the Battle of the Bulge.