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The Middle East Battles: Suez '56 & El Arish '67, are two games in one that depict an operational simulation of mid-20th century warfare in and near the Sinai peninsula.
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The Middle East Battles: Suez '56 & El Arish '67, are two games in one that depict an operational simulation of mid-20th century warfare in and near the Sinai peninsula. Both games in the system represent, in two-player format, a clash between two or more of the important military powers in that region during the middle third of that century. The playing pieces represent the actual units that participated, or could have participated, in those battles, and the maps show the militarily significant terrain over which the units fought or could have fought. Suez '56 simulates the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt at the time of the 1956 Arab-Israeli War. The Anglo-French objectives were to seize the Suez Canal, which the Egyptians had nationalized, and to possibly also overthrow the regime of Gamel Abd El Nasser. Though the invaders gain their military objectives, they unleashed a political disaster on themselves when the United States joined the Soviet Union in condemning the operation. Published in Strategy & Tactics magazine #226 - Jan/Feb 2005. Game Scale: Game Turn: 6-8 hours Hex: 360 yards / 329 meters Units: Company to Battalion Game Inventory: One 22 x 34" full color mapsheet One dual-side printed countersheet (280 1/2" counters - 101 for Suez '56, 110 for El Arish '67, 30 errata/variant for The East is Red, 39 errata/variant for Dixie) One 16-page Middle East Battles rulebook Solitaire Playability: High Complexity Level: Medium Players: 2 or more Playing Time: 2-10 Hours