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Some early games in the 'Europa' series

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Total War, a new game based on Fire in the
East, being developed by Historical Military
Services (see HMS/GRD link), the successors
of the Europa military games series

The forerunner of 'Fire in the
East' and 'Total War'

The early version of Marita-Merker, later released as
'Balkan Front' by GRD

The forerunner of 'Scorched
Earth', a very rare game
East Front trilogy

The Europa series had its beginnings as a project by Paul Richard ("Rich") Banner, Frank Chadwick, and Marc Miller to produce a series of three wargames to cover the entire Eastern Front of the Second World War at the operational scale - that is, with more detail than a strategic simulation would provide, but less than a tactical simulation would provide. The trilogy was to include:

Drang nach Osten (Rush to the East) A game to cover Operation Barbarossa and the Soviet counterattacks over the winter of 1941-1942.

Unentschieden (Undecided) An expansion kit to provide maps and orders of battle to allow play of Drang nach Osten to continue until the end of 1944 if neither side had achieved victory by then.

Die Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) An expansion kit to provide maps and orders of battle to allow play of Drang nach Osten and Unentschieden to continue into Germany in 1945 if neither side had achieved victory by then.

The titles appealed to the historical Drang nach Osten concept and the mythological Götterdämmerung concept as symbols for the epic struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

(The above information is courtesy of Wikipedia)