Europa Games and Military History

Tag: ETO

Iterum ante portas

It is December 1941, (again). An unusually mild winter sees the Germans firmly in possession of Moscows suburbs after a gruelling campaign, while in the North forward detachments have finally reached the Murmansk railway line. Further south the Germans have occupied vast swathes of the Ukraine, though Odessa and Sevastopol still hold out against the fascist invaders…

In other words: we managed to upload Ken Newall’s new game report up to JAN I 1942, and it shows how helpful images are to understand the overall strategic situation – at least for a visual animal like me. Enjoy the read!

After completing the newsletter archive in the Generalstab Library some months ago there was still one issue missing: ETO #57. I have the basic TOC, but no authors, and was unable to find a copy of the newsletter anywhere. Since Arthur Goodwin was the editor at the time, I’ve contacted him directly, and will update if I recieve a reply.

We’re still being plagued by some technical problems, but in the making are two more game reports from War in the Desert, and it might be time for some more link additions soon.

In Memoriam Milo Minderbinder

Here’s this weeks updates so far:

  • Added TEM index pages up to TEM #71 – getting ahead of my own schedule
  • Added pages for the Grenadier and ETO as well, with potentially creating individual pages for issues, similar to the TEM pages, if can research enough information
  • Added more postings (and pictures) to Gregory Bartels Wavell’s War AAR. Obviously a work in progress, just like the TEM-pages
  • Created an Europa Modules page to better distinguish between Europa games and Europa modules, added a page for ¡No Pasaran! to it.
  • Reworked the pages for Balkan Front and A Winter War to improve layout and readability, added some images here and there.
  • Reordered post and media category trees to support the website expansion
  • Added Downloads – PDFs for the four Orders of Battle we have, and some for the Great War Ground rules. More to come.

In former times that would be enough updates to last me a whole month or longer… But there are some things I just want to finish up.