After the Second World War, Greece became one of the first battlefields between the two super powers – the United States and the Soviet Union – who were wrestling for ideological domination. In 1947, the Truman Doctrine provided American aid to Greece to help contain communism. Greece was in the midst of a civil war between communist fighters and the Government army supported by a coalition of right-wing and centrist forces. Greek Tragedy recreates this conflict in a team card driven format.
-Grant
I won a copy of Greek Tragedy as a door prize at BottosCon 2025 last weekend.
Now I have all three games ever done on the War! (I designed the other two, Andartes and Greek Civil War).
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I need to pick up copies of both of your games on the subject. Always love me some Brian Train jams!
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We’ll make a Brian Trian completist of you yet (and you might be the only one, other than me; I’m fairly but not entirely sure I’ve kept all that I have done!).
Andartes is available through Wargamevault as a PnP, pretty cheap.
Greek Civil War was issue #11 of Modern War magazine and #165 of (Japanese) Command magazine. The less said about the former the better; the latter is the one to get as it has better graphics, nicer counters and an updating of the 1944-45 scenario that was thrown in to the former without my knowledge.
(The latter also includes a short memoir by me about my time living in Japan (1990-92) and how I started to design games there.)
No matter which one you get you need to drop in my original rules and charts: for the former, because they seriously messed up the design, for the latter because I am guessing you cannot read Japanese any better than I can.
https://brtrain.wordpress.com/2022/06/15/greek-civil-war-in-japanese-command-magazine/
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