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1980 Ranked #20,264

The Drive On Metz

Maneuver forces across tactical or historical battle maps.

Wargames Wargame World War II Hexagon Grid Dice Rolling

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

2.25/5

Rating

6.04

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

This is a small wargame published in Mr. Dunnigan's The Complete Wargames Handbook, starting with the first edition in 1980.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Hexagon Grid

Use a hexagonal map where each space connects evenly in six directions.
Read the full game description

This is a small wargame published in Mr. Dunnigan's The Complete Wargames Handbook, starting with the first edition in 1980. Twelve pages of rules, one page of tables, one 5.5" x 8" map, 20 counters. Scale is 4 km per hex, one day per turn, and regiment-sized units. The rules are at http://www.hyw.com/Books/WargamesHandbook/4-3-metz.htm as part of The Complete Wargames Handbook (2nd ed.) which Mr. Dunnigan has made available online. Reimplemented by: The Drive on Metz (Second Edition)

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Type

1
Wargames

Category

2
Wargame World War II

Mechanism

2
Dice Rolling Hexagon Grid

Family

3
Cities: Metz (France) Players: Two-Player Only Games Region: Lorraine (France)

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2
Best with
1
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Jim Dunnigan

Publishers

1
William Morrow & Co.

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