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“It was like a
moving picture battle. Tanks were crawling up along the
muddy roads and khaki-colored figures could be seen
moving about in ones and twos and fours along the edges
of the woods and across the grassy plains...Overhead the
shells were still screaming from our heavy artillery
with a good deal of answering fire from the German
batteries which caused most of our losses.” –Father
Frances McDuffy, 165th Regiment of the US 42nd Infantry
Division.
The Yanks Are Here!
is a moderate complexity level game of the battle of
Saint Mihiel. This was the first large scale offensive
by the United States Army in WWI. General Pershing had
insisted since he first arrived that US soldiers would
only fight under the command of US leaders and as a
unified force. The offensive of Saint Mihiel was first
planned as two-part effort to first reduce the German
held salient that threatened Verdun, and then take Metz
to breakthrough the German fortified lines. Allied
commanders, however, wanted the US Army to more directly
support their offensive along the Aisne and Somme Rivers
further north. Only four days of supplies and material
were granted General Pershing for the Saint Mihiel
offensive. Although the US First Army was successful in
reducing the salient, the German Army was in the process
of withdrawing anyways and were able to limit the
American’s advance to just short of their newly
established fortified line. It would be American’s
Meuse-Argonne offensive in October that would result in
a more decisive decision, but at a much higher cost in
American lives.
Can you do as well or better than your historical
counterpart? |
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Design: Paul Rohrbaugh
Graphics: Tim Allen
Editing: Lisa Rohrbaugh
Playtesters: Brian Brennan and Lisa Rohrbaugh
$22.95
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BONUS:
Players can play the Fighting Eagles
game in conjunction with The Yanks Are Here!
Additional Rules contain that option! |
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