A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945

A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945

Designer: Paul Rohrbaugh
Type: Wargame
Status: Free
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/25733
Available from: http://www.wargamer.com/Hosted/lineofdeparture/scenario.asp

Prolific game designer Paul Rohrbaugh designed A Master Stroke: The Battle for Meiktila, March 5-14, 1945 to cover the battle in Burma that resulted in the final liberation of Mandalay and Rangoon. Not a fight in the impenetrable jungle, this was a mobile battle featuring tanks in the armor-friendly central plain of the country.

What follows is a complete desktop-published board wargame; all that you the player have to do is download, print, assemble and provide the six-sided die, plus a coffee cup to hold the activation markers. What you do not have to provide is money, as A Master Stroke is 100% free.

The 11" x 17" map is in three sections, so that anyone with a printer can put it together without searching for a tabloid-capable printer. They also overlap for ease of assembly. For those who do want to print it in one piece, there is a second file, consisting solely of a one-piece map, that can be downloaded separately from the game. It is wholly optional though.