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2020 Ranked #14,240

Ostkrieg: Wwii Eastern Front

Move pieces across a map while planning position and timing.

Wargames Wargame World War II Open Drafting Point to Point Movement

Players

1-2

Play time

180-240 min

Age

14+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.87

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

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?

Ostkrieg: WWII Eastern Front is a strategic level game that covers the entire war in the east from Barbarossa until 1945. Each turn is one year, but the game is card-driven with each year consisting of multiple card plays per side.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Open Drafting

Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Point-to-Point Movement

Move along explicit connections between named locations or nodes.
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Type

1
Wargames

Category

2
Wargame World War II

Mechanism

3
Dice Rolling Open Drafting Point to Point Movement

Family

3
Country: Russia Players: Games with Solitaire Rules Players: Wargames with Solitaire Rules

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1–2
Best with
1–2
Play time
180–240 min
Age
14+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Mitchell S Ledford Gregory M. Smith

Artists

1
Ilya Kudriashov

Publishers

1
Compass Games

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