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#European war game online series#

Subject: The Battle of Britain and the hypothetical German invasion of Great Britain, 1940.

Narvik was the game that got Winston Hamilton into the Europa system, and it always remained his favorite Europa game. The Europa supplement in the game with the Europa-level Norwegian and Swedish armed forces was also fascinating. Until then I had known little about the Norwegian campaign and thought it was just another German cakewalk with little interesting action. I became intrigued with it when I read some reviews. Europa III was reserved for Marita-Merkur, which wasn't published until GDW did the second edition Europa games.Ī Personal Note: This was the first Europa game I ever bought or played. Note that Narvik was Europa game IV, not III. The game covered the entire campaign in Norway. Narvik took its title from the Norwegian Arctic port the Germans seized in the face of British naval superiority.

#European war game online series#

More Info: See Narvik on BoardGameGeek (note that the illustration there is the back of the game box of 2nd edition Narvik, and is not indicative of 1st edition Narvik) and The Europa Series at Wargame Academy.

Subject: The German invasion of Norway, 1940.

Here was a game that showed what really went on! -John M.

I was used to cookie-cutter games where, say, every German panzer division would have the same rating and wouldn't change for the entire war. GDW planned to publish a third "original Europa" game covering the 1945 German-Soviet campaign, tentatively titled Na Zapad! (Russian for "To the west!"), but these plans were not realized.Ī Personal Note: Together with DNO, UNT was a revelation on what games could be. Unentschieden is a German word meaning "stalemate." UNT was an add-on to DNO and was not playable by itself. More Info: See UNT on BoardGameGeek and The Europa Series at Wargame Academy.Subject: The German-Soviet conflict, April 1942-Dec.Designed by: Frank Alan Chadwick and Paul Richard Banner.Later, I did get to play it (and eventually got my own copy), and it was everything I expected it to be. Expertly rated divisions, tank brigades, antitank battalions, model-based aircraft, Soviet landing craft, and more, wow! Alas, I was in college and on a very limited budget, so the $12.85 price tag (2-3 times the cost of most other games) was just beyond reach. It looked amazing, and the picture of German and Soviet units fighting for the Crimea alone made me lust after that game-an emotion I rarely experienced with wargames. DNO was not only the first Europa game but also the first monster game, with six maps and hordes of counters.Ī Personal Note: I first saw DNO in an ad in a wargaming magazine. The title, Drang Nach Osten, is a German phrase meaning drive (or push) to the east, used at times from the Middle Ages through WW2 to signify German settlement and expansion into territories east of Germany.

More Info: See DNO at BoardGameGeek and The Europa Series at Wargame Academy.Subject: The German-Soviet conflict, June 1941-March 1942.Designed by: Paul Richard Banner and Frank Chadwick.There were four original, or "first edition," games.

Its immediate success and popularity made the Europa series possible. Game Designers' Workshop published the very first Europa game in 1973: Drang Nach Osten. Donate to Classic Europa The GDW Era: The Original or First Edition Games