Europe Engulfed
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Europe Engulfed
More than thirteen years of design and development have gone into the making of Europe Engulfed
(EE), which is GMT Games' first offering to the block-game enthusiast.
It covers the entirety of World War II in Europe from September 1939 to
the end of 1945.
Europe Engulfed plays fast with its
focus on playability and making players feel the pressures their
historical counterparts were under. The game achieves this level of
playability without sacrificing historical detail. The entire campaign
is playable in a single 10-to-14 hour day once players become familiar
with its elegant game systems including: Wood Block Units:
Wood blocks
for land units provide a realistic fog of war. Only the controlling
player can see if their units are armor or infantry, weak or strong
until combat is engaged. The inability to know the strength of your
opponent ensures that even the most experienced players will make their
fair share of tactical and strategic errors.
Production and Strategic Warfare:
Europe Engulfed
Game Turns represent two months each and production and strategic
warfare takes place within each of these turns. The inventive
production system shows that the conquering power does not get the same
value out of resource areas as the original power that lost them.
Production levels are easy to calculate and production choices include
special actions, fleets, U-boats, strategic fighter and bomber assets,
ground-support units, flak, V-weapons, and, of course, lots and lots of
armor and infantry and the odd paratrooper or cavalry unit from which
to choose.
Special Actions:
Special
actions are an innovative rule system to account for the large
historical territorial gains that occurred over the course of a
two-month game turn without bogging the game down with multiple player
turns. Using Special Actions, players can purchase additional movement
phases and combat rounds, amphibious and airborne assaults, and even
take actions during an opponent's combat phase.
Rulebook and Playbook:
The
24-page rulebook is clearly written with many examples. Also included
is a 24-page playbook. The playbook includes player notes, designer
notes, optional rules, scenarios, index, and an extended example of
play highlighting the May/June 1940 turn which reveals tactics for
successfully attacking and defending.
Europe Engulfed
plays quickly with a very historical feel. Many players have indicated
that they actually feel the pressures and stresses felt by the
strategic level commanders in the real war. We know of no other
European Theater of Operations game that plays this fast and with this
much historical value.
Game Components
COUNTERS:
283 Wooden blocks (with stickers) & 244 full color counters
MAP:
Two 22"x34" full-color mapsheets
OTHER
- 24-page Rulebook
- 24-page Playbook
- 24 six-sided dice (two sets of 12)
Game Features:
- TIME SCALE:
2 months per turn
- MAP SCALE
Area movement
- UNIT SCALE:
Corps or Divisions, fleets
- NUMBER OF PLAYERS
Two to three
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