Game Components
One, 11" x 17" map and one, 8½"
x 11" map,
87 color, single-sided unit counters
2 Player Aid Sheets
Two, 4 page Rules Booklets
Shipping not
included
Mounted counters are available for an additional
$5
Game Credits:
Game Design:
Pieter-Jan de Wilde
Graphics:
Bruce Yearian
Editing and Development: Paul Rohrbaugh
Playtesting:
Brian Brennan, Luc Olivier, Paul Rohrbaugh, Robert
“Smitty” Smith, Mike Gallo, Dan Rygasewicz, Jack
Stalica and Patrick Saumur
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FORLORN STRUGGLES
Operations Gemse and Südwind
February-March, 1945
Forlorn Struggles is a
DualPak game.
It comes with two separate games in one package.
Operation Südwind
is a two-player/solitaire game recreating the
mid-February 1945 German offensive against the Soviet
Bridgehead across the Garam
River, in what is now southwestern
Slovakia.
It commenced on the morning of February 17. The German
attack spearheads included a total of 44 formidable
Tiger II tanks. Subsidiary attacks from across the
Danube helped weaken the Soviet positions.
7th Guard Army
defended stubbornly but was barely reinforced and by
February 24th the Germans cleared the bridgehead. The
Germans won a clear-cut operational victory but they
incurred hard-to-replace losses. In the grand scheme of
things Operation Südwind was a localized, and only temporary setback ,for
the Soviets.
Operation Gemse
is a two-player/solitaire game recreating the fierce
early March German offensive in Oberlausitz
and lower Siliesia
against the unsuspecting Soviet 3rd Guard Tank Army
commanded by General Rybalko. Securing Lauban and the
surrounding area was deemed critical for a possible
relief of encircled Breslau.
However the planned grand encirclement anchored on
Naumburg soon proved too ambitious. Instead on March 5
the Führer-Grenadier and Führer-Begleit
Panzer divisions completed their reduced pincer movement
and met up in Sächsisch-Haugsdorf. By March 7th, the
encircled Soviet 7th Guard Tank Corps was almost
completely destroyed.
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