1st Alamein

1st Alamein

Designer: Lou Coatney
Type: Wargame
Status: Free for educational use
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/12018
Available at: http://lcoat.tripod.com/1alampag.htm

1ST ALAMEIN is dedicated as a token of remembrance to the soldiers of the British Commonwealth--Australian, British, Indian, South African ... and New Zealander--and of Greece, Poland, Free France, and finally the United States ... who fought and defeated the Axis on the first 'Second Front' of the Second World War: North Africa.

1ST ALAMEIN is an educational 2-player operational level military history game simulating the historical decision-making situations of Allied and Axis commanders in Egypt, in July 1942. Although one player must serve as the Axis commander--personified by General, and then Field Marshal Erwin Johann Rommel ('The Desert Fox')--this is accepted in the spirit of learning. (It must never be forgotten that Rommel, a German national hero, was serving--however bravely and competently--*Nazi Germany*--along with Bushido Japan and Soviet Russia, three of the most evil totalitarian regimes ever to afflict humanity. However, it should also be remembered--to Rommel's credit--that he died on Adolf Hitler's orders, after it was discovered that he had supported the July 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler.)

1ST ALAMEIN is intended to be a basic introduction to the study of military history through manual simulation games--board wargaming.