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Königgrätz: The Battle for Germany, 1866
This is a brigade-level, two-player simulation of the decisive battle of the Seven Weeks War, which was fought between Prussia and Austria in 1866. Prussia's victory in this battle established Berlin's
dominance across the rest of Germany and laid the ground work for the establishment of the German Empire a few years later. Austria's defeat here put an end to that nation's centuries-long influence over German affairs and thus helped
bring on the eventual end of the Hapsburg monarchy. The game map shows the area of central Europe across which the historic battle was fought. Each hexagon on the map equals 500 yards from side to opposite side, and each game turn
simulates the action of one hour of the actual battle.
Each "Königgrätz" game is ziplocked and includes one 17x22" map sheet, one set of 156 half-inch unit-counter playing pieces (that must be hand trimmed from their holding sheet), one four-page rules folder and one sheet of charts and tables. Designed and developed by the famous team of Richard Spence and James Gabel, this is a hard to find classic from a long-gone era of the wargaming hobby. This two-player game is simple without being simplistic, and will be easy for even those entirely new to the hobby to get into. It is loaded with action and covers an unusual historical topic, and is a hard to find classic from a long-gone era of the wargaming hobby.
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