In 2008, SSG released Kharkov: Disaster on the Donets, overhauling the Korsun Pocket engine and remedying some of the most contentious longstanding issues in the debate over “playable” historical verisimilitude. More games followed, including one that offered battalion-scale scenarios based on Market Garden, Novorossisk, and Saipan. The original version of Across the Dnepr launched in December 2003 and riffed on the award-winning operational-scale Korsun Pocket engine. For the Red Army, no price is too high to pay. For the Germans, delay at Smolensk equals defeat at Moscow. This massive collision of forces produces a maelstrom of men and machines. The Red Army, recovering from the initial onslaught and reinforced by Stalin has been ordered to counterattack the unsuspecting Germans. Before Moscow can fall, Smolensk must be taken.
Halls of Montezuma? Decisive Battles of the American Civil War? Reach for the Stars? Warlords? The Ardennes Offensive? Those guys.įour mighty German armies have smashed through the Soviet frontier defences, and are aimed directly at Moscow. You may have heard of the last two if you were wargaming in the ’80s or ’90s. It’s by Strategic Studies Group (SSG), a bunch of Australia-based wargame wizards, including PC gaming legends Ian Trout and Roger Keating. What’s Across the Dnepr 2? A turn-based, hex style World War II wargame simulating military operations during July 1941, when the German war machine was smashing its way into Russia.
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