We have all played lots of East Front wargames. These games are always focused on things such as weather, movement, supply, and of course combat as the combatants fought it out over the fate of World War II over the short period of a few key months in 1941. Typically, these games all tell the same outcome, that of the Germans punching the Soviets in the mouth for the first few months of June, July and August 1941 until they got their feet underneath them and then punch back as the weather worsened and the Soviet people mobilized to defeat the invaders. The outcome of these East Front games are not necessarily pre-ordained, but unless something different happens, their outcome rarely if ever changes. That is where Iron, Blood, Snow & Mud from PHALANX comes into play as the game is a fun, light, fast playing strategic level wargame that we found to be extremely interesting and definitely up for grabs as either side seems to be capable of winning.

Iron, Blood, Snow & Mud is a quick and easy to learn 2-player hex and counter strategic wargame simulating the Eastern Front of World War II. Poland and France have fallen, Greece and Norway have surrendered and Yugoslavia is no more… Now it’s time for the Soviet Union to suffer the same grim fate. Will the vaunted German blitzkrieg prove its invincibility once again? Or will the Soviet Union endure the onslaught long enough to rebuild its might and push back the enemy? The fate of the war is in your hands!

I wrote a fairly in-depth First Impression review of the game and you can read that at the following link: https://theplayersaid.com/2024/01/09/first-impressions-iron-blood-snow-mud-from-phalanx/

-Grant