1981
Minsk '41
2–2 players · 180 min
Operation Barbarossa is an Operational level Japanese board-wargame covering the first months of the German World War II "Operation Barbarossa".
Division level with single step units - Russian units are back printed with an untried side similar to system pioneered in SPI's Panzergruppe Guderian. CRT uses an AE-AR-C-EX-DR-DE range of results.
First and second edition: 105 combat units, 3 marker counters, 1 17" x 34" map. Rules are 8 pages in Japanese with designer's notes and examples.
Originally designed by Rec Co. and published by Epoch. Reprinted by Kokusai-Tsushin in Command Magazine Japan #57, along with 1942. Latest edition (3rd edition in Japan Wargame Classics) includes a bonus game Riga '41. Both games can be connected.
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