Donnserschlag is a two player game which is playable in roughly 1 hour per turn. This means that a full 7 turn game (or 8 if Donnerschlag is called in Turn 4) will take less than 8 hours. In fact, we felt like as we got into the groove of the game and became more comfortable with the sequence of play and combat procedure that turns would be able to be completed in 40-45 minutes on a 2nd play. I do want to point out that this is more of a game than a true simulation and was designed to create a high level of player interaction and replayability.
The historical situation is from December 12 to December 23 in 1942, “Unternehmen Wintergewitter” was in progress. This was the code name for a relief attack by Heeresgruppe Don to free the trapped 6th Army in Stalingrad.
We posted an interview with one of the games designers Patrick Gebhardt and you can read that at the following link: https://theplayersaid.com/2022/08/02/interview-with-patrick-gebhardt-designer-of-donnerschlag-escape-from-stalingrad-from-vuca-simulations/
The game also came in at #2 on my Top 10 Wargames of 2022! post that you can read at the following link: https://theplayersaid.com/2023/03/08/grants-top-10-wargames-of-2022/
-Grant
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Played it, like it, still trying to wrap my head around how to play best with Soviets!
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In a first for The Players Aid – these players aids are so solid you can kill someone with them. 🤣
Useful buyers advice.
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The box should have a warning saying there is a deadly weapon inside.
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A beautiful produced light wargame with loads of potential but undermined by an under written rulebook and a lot of errata with changes to several combat cards and most annoyingly to those ‘robust’ QRS sheets. Really needs an update pack or at least a revised rulebook.
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As of today VUCA have an updated Living Rules and QRS on their site and promise of update pack to include these and revised Combat Card decks. Good to see 🙂
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