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Operation Crusader box art
1978 Ranked #11,325

Operation Crusader

Maneuver forces across tactical or historical battle maps.

Wargames Wargame World War II Hexagon Grid Simulation

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

?+

Complexity

3.79/5

Rating

7.26

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

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?

Operation Crusader is an intense grand tactical/operational simulation of the desert fighting in the area around Tobruk in the period May-November,1941.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Dice Rolling

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

Model a real or imagined system through detailed cause-and-effect rules.
Hexagon Grid

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

Operation Crusader is an intense grand tactical/operational simulation of the desert fighting in the area around Tobruk in the period May-November,1941. During that period, three distinct operations were launched by the British against the Axis forces under the command of Rommel: Operations Brevity, Battleaxe and Crusader. This Game includes: -5 unmounted map boards -10 counter sheets -1 booklet of charts -Panzer Group Afrika chart -Eighth Army chart -Corps Troops chart -Scenarios booklet -Rules booklet -1 20 sided die

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Type

1
Wargames

Category

2
Wargame World War II

Mechanism

3
Dice Rolling Hexagon Grid Simulation

Family

3
History: World War II (Africa) Players: Two-Player Only Games Players: Wargames with Rules Supporting Only Twoâ?¦

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Game and edition data

All specifications (4)

Play and group

Players
2
Best with
1
Play time
300 min
Complexity
3.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Frank Chadwick

Artists

1
Rodger B. MacGowan

Publishers

1
Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games)

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