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  Combat Commander: Europe

Combat Commander: Europe


Combat Commander is a card-driven board game series covering tactical infantry combat in the European and North African Theatres of World War II. One player takes the role of Germany in this while another player commands the Allies - Russia & America.

This first game of Combat Commander includes units, cards, and historical scenarios depicting the American, German, and Russian forces.

Each game includes 6-12 historical scenarios as well as a "roll your own" scenario system that provides an almost unending variety of map configurations, force structures, and combat situations. Replayability value for Combat Commander is very high.

A game of Combat Commander has no strict sequence of play. Each turn is divided into a variable number of Player Turns, each of which may consist of either: the active player expending one or more Fate cards from their hand for their Actions; or passing, which allows the discarding of one or more Fate cards. Players redraw up to their maximum hand size at the end of each of their own Player Turns. Additionally, Reactions may be played by either player at any time, so long as the prerequisite listed is met.

FATE CARDS: Players will take turns playing one or more "Fate" cards from their hands in order to activate their units on the mapboard for various military functions. Each nationality has its own 72-card Fate deck highlighting its historical strengths and weaknesses (lots of Smoke for the US; marksmanship bonuses for Britain; commissar events for the Soviets; broken Italian units will surrender more often; etc.). Each Fate card contains one Action and one Reaction: only one of which may be declared when the card is played. The bottom portion of each Fate card contains an Event, a random hex symbol, and a 2d6 die roll -- these can never be played from the hand, only revealed from the top of the draw pile when a game situation instructs a player to do so.

ACTIONS include: Fire, Move, Advance, Rally, Rout, Artillery Request and Artillery Denied. Each nationality also has a varying number of Command Confusion Actions which act as duds while in hand -- these cards are useless except for any possible Reaction on the card. Actions, when played, generally activate a single unit to perform that Action, unless a Leader is activated: in which case it can further activate any or all non-leaders within its Command Radius to perform the same Action. There are 15 different REACTIONS. For example:

  • Sustained Fire -- Add +2 when firing a Mortar or Machine Gun. If the fire roll is "doubles", break it.
  • Smoke -- If a unit with boxed Movement is activated to Move or Advance, place Smoke in or adjacent to its hex.
  • Grenades -- Add +2 when firing at an adjacent hex.
  • Dig In -- Place foxholes in a friendly hex.

There are 36 different EVENTS -- both good and bad -- that will occur at random intervals to add much chaos and uncertainty to each player's perfect plan. Event examples:

  • Walking Wounded -- Select one eliminated unit. Return that unit to play in a random hex, broken.
  • Hero -- If not already in play, place the Hero in a friendly hex. Rally one broken unit there.
  • Reinforcements -- Roll on the Support Table. Select one available unit then place it along your map edge.
  • Battle Harden -- One unit becomes Veteran.

Units and weapons are rated for their Firepower and Range, while units also have a Movement allowance and a Morale number. Most importantly, Leaders have a Command number as well. Command has two functions in Combat Commander. First, it allows a leader that has been activated to perform an Action the ability to further activate any friendly non-leaders up to X hexes away, where X is its Command number (or "Command Radius"). Second, a leader's Command number is added directly to every stat on every non-leader currently occupying the same hex. So, for example, a 5-FP, 5-Rg, 5-Mv Squad with 7-Morale in the same hex as a Leader with a Command of 2 would have stats of 7-7-7 and 9 for all purposes as long as that condition existed.

Players: 2
Playtime: 60 - 180 Minutes
Ages: 12 +
Published by: GMT Games

 




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