MOSCOW ATTACKED!
Copyright 2002 Louis R. Coatney
Dedication: MOSCOW ATTACKED! is dedicated in remembrance and respect:
- to the Polish, Russian, Jewish and other Eastern European peoples who suffered,
endured, and contributed so much to Allied Victory over Nazi Germany and its Axis partners.
- and to the Red Army and people of Moscow, who handed Nazi Germany its first
decisive defeat on land in the Second World War.
My MOSCOW ATTACKED! board wargame is COPYRIGHTED--NOT Public Domain--and FREE
under the following conditions:
Schools, libraries, and museums are free to make and keep copies for in-house educational use or nonpermanent loan/circulation ... in gratitude for the fine education and research assistance I have always received from such institutions.
An individual is free to make one personal copy of MOSCOW ATTACKED! for
his/her own personal use. All other rights--including publishing rights--are reserved to me.
Questions and/or constructive criticism and feedback are welcome!
E-mail me at ELCOAT@Hotmail.com -- Subject "MOSCOW ATTACKED! Feedback" -- and I will share
your MOSCOW ATTACKED! questions and feedback
with others interested in the game. Let me know if I may use your name and/or
mention where you're from.
There is also a thread about the game on John Kranz's
ConSimWorld wargaming forum.
Look under Boardgaming/Individual Game or Series Discussion/Individual Games.
(Set the game list to "alphabetical." It really helps.)
And now: Here are the game's components, to print off and assemble so that it may be played. Players-students will also need a single six-sided die (or chits numbered 1-6, to be drawn out of a hat) for the randomized combat results tables.
- Mapboard in .gif format -- rev. 26Feb02
You will want to print this off as large as possible, and you should enlarge it with a
photocopier after that, so that the mapboard comes out to a width of about 11"/28cms.
Cream is an excellent map color.
Railroads are the thin continuous lines. Roads are the thicker, dashed lines.
- Russian units in .gif format -- rev. 25Mar02
- German units in .gif format -- rev. 29Dec04
106. InfDiv is set up -- "stacked" on 9. Army, 35. InfDiv on the korps south of 9.A, 87. InfDiv on 4. Army, and 2. PzDiv on 40. PzKps.
You will want to print the units off at maximum size possible and
then photo-reduce them from that, for best detail/quality.
1"--12.7mm--wide is about right. Russian units should be
printed/photocopied off onto red or tan-brown paper or cardstock. German units should
be printed/photocopied off onto light blue or gray paper/cardstock.
SUGGESTION: For the (units, map, symbols) .gif files, I suggest bringing them
up on-screen on L-View or some similar viewer software and *then* printing them off.
When I try to print them directly off the Web, I only get a partial printing, for some reason.
- Units and map done more "graphically" by MA! players. (I recommend copying the files to your computer and then bringing them up onto the screen for printing.):
- Combat results and terrain tables, etc. in .htm/Web format -- rev. 27Dec02
- Game-turn schedule, weather, etc. in .htm/Web format --
rev. 27Dec02
- Unit log (with starting positions) in .htm/Web format.
- Rules? Rules-shmules! Who needs them?? (Check the charts and tables sheets
for "explanations.")
- Designer's comments: Design of the game, Advice on fighting
the battle, Historical commentary, and Bibliography -- Under development --
rev. 9Jun02
THERE IS ANOTHER FREE BATTLE OF MOSCOW
GAME:
... on the "www.Grognard.com" website. It is designed by the awardwinning designer, Frank
Chadwick, and reflects his own interpretation of the battle. I'd urge you try Frank's game
too, to see how two different designers can each model the battle in his own way.
Now would you like to go to my home page to see photos of a 1ST ALAMEIN
historical scene and the cardstock MODEL SHIPS I design? And I have
designed other games as well.
If you are a friend, and/or if you would like to share info and ideas about
military and naval history and game designing and cardstock model shipbuilding,
and/or you have any questions about my MOSCOW ATTACKED! board wargame feel free to write me at: Lou Coatney, 626 Western Ave., Macomb, IL 61455 USA
... or e-mail me at ELCOAT@Hotmail.com.
You may also telephone me at (309)836-1447. You can leave a message and/or your mailing address on my recording machine if I don't answer; but I cannot afford to return calls.
Thanks for your interest in MOSCOW ATTACKED!....:-)
(12Feb02, rev. 4Jan05)