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1990 Ranked #19,714

Kreta 1941

This low-complexity tactical wargame has opposing forces contest a German airborne landing on Crete in 1941. Battalion and company units fight through retreats and eliminations, focusing the battle on local tactical decisions rather than elaborate rules.

Wargames Wargame World War II Hexagon Grid Islands: Crete (Greece)

Players

2

Play time

120-240 min

Age

12+

Complexity

2.75/5

Rating

5.84

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 3.5/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

2nd Polish wargame. "Kreta 1941" (Crete 1941) is low-complexity tactic game about German airborne landing on Crete in spring 1941.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Hexagon Grid

Use a hexagonal map where each space connects evenly in six directions.
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2nd Polish wargame. "Kreta 1941" (Crete 1941) is low-complexity tactic game about German airborne landing on Crete in spring 1941. It comprises a full colour map, counters that need to be cut. Battalion-company scale. Effect of struggle between units can be retreat or elimination. The rules are in Polish. The games was based on an early wargaming system developed at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, which in its exact form is discontinued now.

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Type

1
Wargames

Category

2
Wargame World War II

Mechanism

1
Hexagon Grid

Family

2
Islands: Crete (Greece) Players: Two-Player Only Games

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Play and group

Players
2
Best with
1–2
Play time
120–240 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Michal Rakowski

Artists

1
Zbigniew Kasprzak

Publishers

2
Dragon Taktyka i Strategia

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